how to keep elements in firealpaca animation

#How to keep elements in firealpaca animation software#

Tbh, I thought I'd take a look at your file and then make a small tutorial to explain how you can optimize it, so that you could recreate my steps next time.Īs for my comic, I intentionally add a bit of animation to almost every page for no reason other than. Free programs include Pencil 2D, Open Toons and my personal preference FireAlpaca.Ī bit of online looking around should lead to each programs site and youtube tends to have a fair amount of useful tutorials. Another is Clip Studio Paint which while it's primary focus is comics and illustration it does have an animation feature. if you're cool to shell out a some money adobe has a few programs like after affects (mentioned above) or adobe animate which are made for animating and editing.

#How to keep elements in firealpaca animation software#

For example because Tapas has a 2mb limit on uploads for an individual image, a gif file that exceeds that limit can't be uploaded and too much compression would lead to a loss of quality so finding a happy middle is going to be key.Īs for software there's a variety of options. If anything, it would definitely be useful to look up tutorials on simple animations as well as looking at comics that use animated panels to get an understanding of how they're used and what the limitations are. Just browsing through on the series' website you can see the various ways animations have been incorporated into the comic. Versus this one with a small lip sync for the dialogue and the speech bubbles again: Like this page uses pretty simple animation with the stars and speech bubble: If i recal correctly Soupinido the comic's artist mentioned using adobe after effects to create some of the animations for the comic. As mentioned the animations are gifs but methods can vary in terms of creation. Colorless is especially know for it's artsyle and animated panels.