Flashing covers

When this week’s noir106 assignment list said for us to challenge ourselves with a four star assignment, I never expected the challenge to be this hard. I knew that this would be a daunting assignment, but all the great examples made me think, hey, I can do this. I’ve worked with gimp a lot lately. I even made a gif once before. 

Well, this was not easy at all. This entire assignment took me a good 3 hours. I spent so much time trying to figure out which layer was where and what cutout was doing what and how to add animations and merge layers and delete colors and…

Yeah, it was a whirlwind, but eventually I got to a finished product. It’s not as cool as some of the other examples, but I still like my results. Plus, as I sort of mentioned above, I learned a lot about layers in this process. I figured out better how to work with different layers on a single picture, as well as how to work with foreground and background coloring and blending.

One thing I really wish was available were clearer tutorials for how to work with animation on gimp, specifically for this project. I think I might make one for one of my tutorial requirements, but I would love to see how a true expert would explain it.