SimplePan

This tutorial shows you how to pan the foreground horizontally. The character was drawn to walk in place. Then that series of drawings is panned across the screen. You can pan the background the same way. Just drag the background instead of the foreground.

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[NOOP1999]

PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION!!!!! I am considering buying Digicel FlipBook. I currently have the trial, and have a question. How do I pan the background? I can draw a background, but when I pan it from one end to the other, but it just floats right by and leaves a white gap. I have heard that you must draw a big image, so I tried drawing the background on a bigger resolution, and imported it on a smaller animation, but it wouldn't let me import it. I want it to look like the intro video for FB.

[kentbraun]

You must make the background wider than the frame if you want to make it pan. FlipBook will import BMP, TGA, JPG and several other common file formats. If it's not accepting the format you have convert your file to one of these and it will import it just fine. Be sure the scale to fit option is turned OFF so that background will come in at its original size and not be scaled to fit within the frame.

[NOOP1999]

Is there any way you can avoid drawing your character (Jupiter) at every frame? Or is there some other way to do it?

Thanks

[kentbraun]

I'm not sure what you're really asking here so I'll provide a couple different answers.

FlipBook will not animate your character for you. You have to draw each frame when the character moves. But if you just want the character to hold it's position in the following frames it will do that automatically. You can also copy and paste the character into different frames and then erase and redraw parts of the character to make it move, like if you wanted him to wave for example.

[xXRay4alwayzXx]

can you animate frame by frame with this? im looking for a 2d animation program that doesnt tween or anything ><

[kentbraun]

ABSOLUTELY!

FlipBook is the industry standard of 2D animation programs. The professional animators at EVERY MAJOR ANIMATION STUDIO use FlipBook. They all use it for drawing and/or shooting their hand-drawn animation.

[KentDigiCelBraun]

There's no such thing as 2 backgrounds. There's only one background and it is opaque. The one in front that looks like a background is call an overlay. Part of it is transparent. It gets attached to a separate peg bar and then can be panned at a slightly different rate to give the illusion of depth.

[Nicolyosis]

I am wondering if there is a way to have multiple background layers. I would like to separate my background and pan the two layers at different speeds to give the illusion of depth, but I don't know that this is possible

[PARKERx87]

thank you very much for this.

[JohnDoeSolomon]

Thank you for clearing up pan camera moves, this was very useful. Digicel flipbook is the only software I need.