Hi,

Maybe OT, but i don't know where to ask... how to make a serie of
images that goes from random flying letter to ordered text, that means
all letters should go gently to there places. or reverse, form text to
flying letters all arround until gettin of screen, off window. This is
rather an animation question, but i is often seen anywhere.

TIA, L

lisztnet@aliceadsl.fr wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Maybe OT, but i don't know where to ask... how to make a serie of
> images that goes from random flying letter to ordered text, that means
> all letters should go gently to there places. or reverse, form text to
> flying letters all arround until gettin of screen, off window. This is
> rather an animation question, but i is often seen anywhere.
> 
> TIA, L

Indeed this is an animation question.  The closest thing to a text animation
effect that I know of is the "Letter Drop" plugin which is part of the
FX-Foundry plugin here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=208874

So, if you want to do something like what you want you'll need to use the
Gimp Gap plugin.  I am no expert with it but I could probably achieve what
you described in an hour or so depending on the number of letters, frames,
effects, etc...  

P.S.  If you download the FX-Foundry plugin then after you decompress it
look for a script called "goode-letter-drop.scm" .  This is the plugin I
mentioned earlier.  You can look at the script in a text editor to see what
sort of effort you need to make to make a plugin for what you want.  With
the animation method you will actually have to describe paths for the
letters to follow which isn't really random.  For truly random motion you
will need a plugin which doesn't exist...yet.   Of course, if you make the
paths separate for each letter and complex enough the path could 'appear'
to be random which may be good enough...

Just my 2¢ worth.

On 2008-07-22, lisztnet@aliceadsl.fr <lisztnet@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe OT, but i don't know where to ask... how to make a serie of
> images that goes from random flying letter to ordered text, that means
> all letters should go gently to there places. or reverse, form text to
> flying letters all arround until gettin of screen, off window. This is
> rather an animation question, but i is often seen anywhere.
>
> TIA, L
>

If you use GAP (animation plugin) you can take images of the letters
and manually choose paths for them to follow (with or without rotating
the letters) to their final locations.

<lisztnet@aliceadsl.fr> wrote in message 
news:aec3532e-8c0a-463e-bc0a-e321f2eb0775@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> Maybe OT, but i don't know where to ask... how to make a serie of
> images that goes from random flying letter to ordered text, that means
> all letters should go gently to there places. or reverse, form text to
> flying letters all arround until gettin of screen, off window. This is
> rather an animation question, but i is often seen anywhere.
>
> TIA, L
>
May I suggest Blender, the open Source modelling program.  It has some 
powerful animation features. 

On 24 juil, 03:35, "Walsh Family" <wals...@knology.net> wrote:
> <liszt...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote in message
>
> news:aec3532e-8c0a-463e-bc0a-e321f2eb0775@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...> Hi,
>
> > Maybe OT, but i don't know where to ask... how to make a serie of
> > images that goes from random flying letter to ordered text, that means
> > all letters should go gently to there places. or reverse, form text to
> > flying letters all arround until gettin of screen, off window. This is
> > rather an animation question, but i is often seen anywhere.
>
> > TIA, L
>
> May I suggest Blender, the open Source modelling program.  It has some
> powerful animation features.

Ok Thanks very much, i take notice. I think the gap module runs only
on latest gimp. i have one other urgent task...

L