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ticket, the message which is revealed underneath won't be animated. It
will be a static image. Still, it will be created as an image sequence.
It's just that all these images will be identical. However, nothing says we have to stick with that. You can certainly bring life to that image sequence too. |
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 One popular way do this is by applying filters to the
image sequence of the animation. Instead of doing this frame by frame
manually with bthe normal filters from the Filters menu, you should
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Another great filter is the Transform tool. With that you can apply for example a change in size and rotation. You can keyframe various sizes and angles and let the program interpolate between the keyframed values.  As an example, you could start with an initial scale that's higher than original, and an angle that returns to 0 degrees, After reaching zero degrees, the size could alos be reduced a little. Anther cool effect is the Ghosting effect in the animated group. It's meant to convey some sort of motion blur trails. Here's an example of what the image sequence might look like in no time: |
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Another cool effect is the Wave displacement effect.  You could apply it initially with zero displacement, until the spinning rotation has come to an end. Then the displacement would be increased enough to make it look like water wavelets are ripping through the text. Here's an example of what could result from it. |
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Be sure to save the final animation. And if you plan on using it as the background image sequence for a bluescren composition, make sure it's in BMP format.  You can of course save it as 'Default Targa' format first (which is the preferred native format of Project Dogwaffle). Saving to default Targa format will be fastest since it doesn't require additional conversion to another format. You can later convert the images to BMP with PD Pro's Batch converter (powered by ImageMagick), or you could use other, external programs such as ImageMagick or Irfanview, to name a few popular choices. |
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