Free animating software for linux

Animated Gallery is a GIMP plugin that creates an animated gallery by overlaying multiple animations frame-by-frame onto the current image background and saving the resulting combined images.

Written using python-fu and gimp 2.2.3

The purpose of the plug-in is to create an animated gallery (e.g for a DVD menu) by overlaying up to 5 animations frame-by-frame onto the current image background and then flattening and saving the combined frames.

The script takes parameters giving the filenames of the first frame of each source animation (or "OFF" to disable a feed). The frames themselves should be sequentially numbered (e.g. frame_000123.jpg). It should work with all image types the gimp can load (tested with .jpg and .ppm). Note that if a frame is missing in an animation, the previous one is repeated.

I have included an option for rounding the corners of the source frames (using the script-fu rounded rectangle function). If you want other similar functionality (e.g. fade to black at sequence end) I would recommend you to have a look at the source code - python is very easy to learn, and the script is fairly well documented.

Usage:
In order to make a DVD menu with animated chapter images, you would normally merge a number of short animated frame sequences(one per chapter), shrunk down to say 80 pixels high, onto a 720x576 background image (for 4:3 PAL). Obviously you should create all the static parts of the menu (text, drop shadows, button outlines etc) on the background image prior to calling the script. A suitable example background template is provided on the gimp plug-ins registry page for the project.

In order to create an actual DVD menu, you will of course need to use an authoring tool such as the excellent and highly flexible dvdauthor package (make sure you use at least version 0.6.11 however, as previous ones have a problem with spumux not correctly recognising transparent bitmaps). There is a very good HowTo at http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/dvdauthor_howto.php

Installation:
Download the script to the .gimp-2.2/plug-ins/ directory (or equivalent) under your home directory; make it executable (chmod +x animated_gallery.py) and restart the gimp. It should appear as an option under the python-fu -> alchemy menu.

GD::Image::AnimatedGif is a Perl extension for creating animated gifs with GD.

SYNOPSIS

use GD::Image::AnimatedGif;

# setup the image
my $image = GD::Image->new(42,21);
my $white = $image->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
$image->transparent($white);

# setup some font goodies
my $fontcolor = $image->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
my $font = GD::Font->Small();

# setup some settings into variables
my $loop = 0;
my $speed = 42; # 1/100 of a sec
my $x_font = 10; # from right (x or y ??)
my $y_font = 2; # from top (x or $y ??)

print "Content-type: image/gifnn";
print $image->animated_gif($loop,$font,$fontcolor,$speed,$x_font,$y_font,[qw(text per frame)],&optional_frame_handler);
or
print $image->animated_gif_easy(0,0,@array,&optional_frame_handler);
So you can have this be your entire script, actual animation creation is on one line:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use GD::Image::AnimatedGif;

print "Content-type: image/gifnn";
print GD::Image->new(50,20)->animated_gif_easy(0,[qw(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Liftoff!)]);

Image Viewer is an image viewer with real-time interactive pan and zoom viewing that uses the GTK+ toolkit and Imlib (or Imlib2).
Image Viewer can open and save to any image format supported by Imlib, rectangular crop, grab the screen, print, and display on the root window.
Main features:
- View
- Convert
- Grab (Screenshot)
- Print
- Rotate
- Crop
- Resize
- Display on Desktop
Enhancements:
- A bug was fixed in the saving of animated GIF images in which looping was not an option.
- The disposal method support for GIF images was improved.

Demoniac is a tool for exploring and animating graphics effects. Hopefully, it will help to produce demos. Demoniac is based on effects. An effect is a piece of software that computes an image, given some options. Demoniac allows you to create one or more instance. An instance is just a specific effect with values for its options.
An option (or a parameter) is some value that influence an effect. It can change during time. The way of producing animation in Demoniac is keyframing. Keyframing consists in making one or more value/time pairs and interpolating the value between the keys.
Enhancements:
- Fixed error handling if Gtk or GtkGLArea not found during configure

Papagayo is a lip-sync program to synchronize animation with audio.

Papagayo is a lip-syncing program designed to help you line up phonemes (mouth shapes) with the actual recorded sound of actors speaking.

Papagayo makes it easy to lip sync animated characters by making the process very simple - just type in the words being spoken (or copy/paste them from the animations script), then drag the words on top of the sounds waveform until they line up with the proper sounds.

Papagayo is designed to be used with Moho, a 2D cartoon animation program, but since its open source, it can be modified for use with other animation applications.

ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer which can display numerous formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF (animated), MNG, PSD, ... ShowImg application consists of a tree view frame, a directory and preview frame, and a view frame.
The (larger) view frame can be exchanged with the (smaller) directory/preview frame. It can preview and display images from multiple directories and search for identical images.
ShowImg also features a full-screen mode, zooming, sorting, dragndrop with Konqueror, support for images in compressed archives (tar, tar.gz, zip, ...) and kipi plugins.
Main features:
Viewer
- display JPEG, PNG (alpha layer supported), GIF, XCF, PSD, etc. files;
- open several directories, and archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .zip, ...);
- apply filters to displayed image;
- preview, fullscreen, slideshow, ``fit-to-screen, efficient zoom;
- open files with external programs;
- support EXIF header (JPEG file metadata);
- display a hexadecimal view.
Management
- batch rename;
- search for exact and similar images;
- several formats conversion;
- manage photo albums.
Configuration
- kipi plugins supported (see kipi plugin homepage);
- configurable interface.
Enhancements:
- Database added to manage images using KexiDB (http://kexi-project.org/),
- Video support added,
- SVG support added,
- RAR archive file support added.

MAILBOX wmnotify is a "DockApp" application, running under WindowMaker, to periodically check a POP3 or IMAP4 email account for new messages. It also supports SSL encryption.

When new messages are detected, the mailbox image is animated to give a visual indication that new mail has arrived. Additionnally, if desired, a sound can be produced from a WAV or AU audio file, or from the console bell.

For simplicity reasons, wmnotify doesnt support multiple POP3 accounts. But by starting a new instance of wmnotify and specifying an alternate configuration file on the command line, you can effectively check multiple POP3 accounts.