Animation Shop
Animation Shop is a powerful yet easy-to-use program that creates animations from one or more graphic images and offers a wide variety of effects and transitions for enhancing animations. Used as a standalone application or as a complement to Paint Shop Pro, Animation Shop allows users to easily create animations.
Editing integration between Animation Shop and Paint Shop Pro means users can easily share and edit animation frames and images between the two programs without having to save and reopen frames. Once finished, animations can be optimized for the Web with the powerful Optimizing Wizard, which provides a comprehensive selection of file output options.
Animation Shop supports several animation and video file formats. Your animations can be saved in popular formats such as GIF, FLC, FLI, AVI, or MNG. We will limit this class to animated GIFs. You use Animation Shop to create animations from one or more images and to enhance your animations with effects and transitions.
Reference: 1999, Steve Eiswirth, Jasc Software, Inc.
If you look below you are viewing animated GIFs. Their nice feature is that when viewed with a Browser or most e-mail applications the animation is automatically activated. Do the images below contain animation? They should, even our lazy cat. All images saved in the gif format do not have to contain motion. Some viewer will not show the motion. The images shown below are all in the "content" folder on the CD. Try to open some of them in PSP. What do you see? You should only see only frame. Now start Animation Shop and open one of them there. You should now see all the frames.
Open Animation Shop and open the file "anim-santa.gif" from the "content" folder on the CD. You should see all of the four frames as shown below. Select frames F1 and F3 by clicking on them while holding down the "Ctrl" key.
Now use the File command on the menu bar and select "Export Frames to Paint Shop Pro". These two frames will appear in a PSP window. Use the paint brush and paint Santa nose some different color. Now when you close these two graphics it will ask you if you want to update the animation, choose yes. Now your frames should like like the ones below.
This yields a Santa who has had too much Christmas Cheer.
To create an animation you can choose to use the Animation Wizard. All you need to do is to put your graphics for the individual frames in their proper order and set the time for the frame to be active. We will demonstrate this in Exercise 9 below.
Exercise 9 – Wag the Tail
In this exercise we will take our vector cat and make several changes to the tail's position. In order to keep the animation file size to a reasonable level we will resize the cat first. Then we will reposition the tail and save each frame. These frames will then be placed into the blank animation provided by the animation wizard.
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