Free gif animations software for linux

GIMP Animation Package is a collection of Plug-Ins to extend the GIMP with capabilities to edit and create Animations as sequences of single frames.

Please note that gimp-gap 2.2.1 requires gimp 2.2 and glib 2.8 or higher. It is recommended to use gtk+ 2.8.

Additional Installation Notes:

This GIMP-GAP release includes sourcecode tarballs of external libraries :

- ffmpeg
- libmpeg3

Those libs are built automatically. Configuration options for those libs can be set by editing the
files:

extern_libs/configure_options_ffmpeg.txt
extern_libs/configure_options_libmpeg3.txt

Those configure_option files are read by the master .configure script

Installation:

./autogen.sh # includes the ./configure call
make
make install

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Animation fade-loop is a plugin for GIMP that can convert an animation to make it look better when played in a continuous loop (e.g. for DVD menus).

"This plug-in copies an animation frame by frame and adds a cross-fade effect at the end so that the last frame blends seamlessly back to the first.

Note that because of the resulting overlap, the output animation is [fade_length] frames shorter than the input. The currently loaded gimp image should be the first frame of the input animation.

Animadead is a skeletal animation library designed to load and play skeletal animations.
Animadead supports models that are composed of several swappable meshes bound to a single skeleton that can be driven by multiple animations. There is an export plug-in for Maya, and others are in development, including plug-ins for 3D Studio Max and Lightwave.
It is written in C++ and has no dependencies. However, an example implementation is provided that uses OpenGL and SDL.
I wrote a shader in CG for OpenGL, which didnt work well on my system, I think due to the best OpenGL CG profile my card supported doesnt utilize the full potential of my card, and I had trouble with passing the list of bone matrices to the card.
The compiler for the supported profile had a ridiculously low number of uniform parameters I could send. So for my simple boxman demo, which has 41 bones or so, I couldnt get it to work, and I didnt feel like making a model with fewer bones.
So after running into a bit of trouble with CG, I wrote a shader in GLSL, which at first had problems as well, but it turns out all I needed to do was upgrade my graphics drivers. Once I did that I got the shader to work, and its nice and fast.
I plan to have both shaders working well and will provide them with the next release.
Main features:
Exporting and file types:
- Custom file types used for meshes and animations.
- Meshes can be static, or deformable and bound to all or a subset of the skeleton.
- Animations use a skeletal hierarchy and local transformations for every bone at every frame.
Loading files:
- The library loads and caches animations and meshes by filename.
- Meshes are broken down into surfaces, which have a texture name, vertices, faces, and a pointer to user defined data.
- A callback function can be set that can load textures when the mesh is loaded, and set the user data for that surface.
- Models in animations can be moving, but when the model is loaded, the movement of the root bone is extracted and removed. This information is stored, and can be used to move the frame of the model at the speed the modeler intended or used to scale the speed of the animation.
Setup (initialize):
- A model is composed of several animations and swappable meshes, but can also contain blends and bone selection masks.
- Blends are used to calculate a pose, usually from two other poses.
- One type of blend is an animation player, which is used to keep track of the current time in the animation and can generate a skeletal pose at that time (between two frames).
- Another type of blend is a blend between blends. When this blend is calculated, it first calculates the two blends its blending, and then blends those together with a user-defined weight. Since this is a recursive definition, blends can in fact be setup in a hierarchy, and the user only needs to call the top level calculate function.
- A bone selection mask is a selection of a subset of the entire skeleton. The hierarchy is used to make the selection process simpler. Essentially, all bones are the same selection state as their parent, unless set directly.
- In addition to being able to calculate a pose from a complex system of blends, the calculate function can be given an optional bone selection mask, which limits the calculations done for that blend to only the subset of bones defined by the selection. This allows you to calculate different parts of a skeleton with different animations.
Drawing:
- The library doesnt actually draw the model, but provides all of the necessary information for your engine to draw the model.
- Data is prepared and organized for use in vertex shaders.
- A pose can be converted to a set of matrix world transformations. (Most shaders like the data like this)
- Examples are shown that actually draw the model.

Gif Assembler is a Web-based frontend for Gifsicle which allows users to create GIF animations from existing GIF images.
With Gif Assembler you can upload up to 99 GIF images as the frames for the animation.
Enhancements:
- Changes some syntax for better path detection, changes default optimisation, and adds an ImageMagick option.
- Minor bugfixes.

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.

Stopmotion is a free application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive, add sound effects and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.

Stopmotion creates stop motion animations by combining images imported from a v4l (or similar) device with sound.

Installation:

If you run Debian the easiest way to install this program is to add this line to your sources.list file:

deb http://www.skolelinux.no/~bjoern/debian/ unstable main

Then run apt-get update and apt-get install stopmotion.

If you do not run Debian you have to compile the program from source. We have not focused on getting the configure script as good as it should be; you will not get any error message if you do not have the necessary libraries installed. This will hopefully be fixed later.

FunTimeDancer is a visualization plugin for XMMS and other audio players.

FunTimeDancer plugin displays an animation (e.g. a dancing cartoon character) synchronized to the music. You can install extra animations or create your own.

Matanza project is a multiplayer space game.
Matanza is a game developed by the Freaks Unidos. On it, each player controls a ship and is supposed to destroy the other players.
The game runs on a telnet server, and players need nothing but a standard telnet client to play.
All the animations are rendered in ASCII art. There are no intrinsic limits to the number of players, but a high speed connection to the server is a must.
Enhancements:
- It is now possible to specify behaviours for objects controled by the server. One can, for instance, have asteroids shot when they are approached by players.
- The coordinate system has been modified to one that is more intuitive.
- Complete rewrite. Many things might have been broken.
- Stats are now constantly shown in the messages area.