Hi, and welcome to my third Linux Focus GIMP tutorial. I'd like to show a little of GIMP's animation abilities. They are not too complex, but they are just good enough to be useful. First off, let's talk about what an animation is.
Animation is derived from the Latin word anima meaning life or soul.
An animation, unlike a still picture, seems to have life. For those who aren't familiar, the traditional method artists have used to get their images to move is to actually create multiple images. Each image represents a different snapshot of the scene in time, known as a frame, and these frames are organized into a chronological order, earliest frame to latest frame. The animation is simply a slideshow of these frames. An animation can seem very life-like if viewed at the proper speed.