Is Graphics Gale still the most commonly used and one of the best pixel art animation programs out there?
I can't answer either of those questions.
But yes, GG is wonderful for animation.
If you need help feel free to post some questions about it.
Thanks a lot for the offer! I really am struggling, to be honest.
I'm working on
this piece and I'm trying to do a bunch of different stuff with no success.
- I want to animate a looping rain animation. I figure the best way to do this is to use some sort of tiles or a grid for a layer with transparent background, so that I won't have to manually animate each drop of rain over the whole screen. I've managed to divide the piece into tiles, but I'm stuck.
- I want to animate a looping water flow animation as well. This should probably be a separate layer, I suppose.
- I need a separate layer of raindrops hitting the nearest structure on the right.
- If I can figure out how it works, I was thinking of doing an occasional flash of lightning, which would require covering the whole piece with a high contrast version, while possibly animating the lightning over several frames.
For example, the whole animation might be 20 frames, with 5 loops of 4 different frames. And in the final sequence of 4 frames, there could be a lightning animation. Not sure how the lightning would affect the layer of raindrops though.
So far, I've managed to add frames to my animation and I've added layers. But they don't seem to... do anything. Whatever changes I make, they all apply to all layers and all frames. Unless there's a good tutorial out there, I'd really appreciate some pointers.