Author: Firefly

Candle Animation

Today we will learn how to turn a still photo of candle flame into a realistic video or desktop animation. For this lesson I selected the following simple [...]

New Versions of Animation Editors – September Release

Updates for this month relate to expanding the list of supported formats: The new version of DP Animation Maker has two new output formats: QuickTime Movie [...]

New Versions of Animation Editors – August Release

As usual, new versions of our animations editors include some small improvements and one new animation. This month, it is an explosion animation: Also we [...]

Cutting Foreground Objects

In today’s topic I am going to discuss the matter of placing an animation behind some foreground objects. Let’s imagine we have a picture like [...]

New Versions of Animation Editors – July Release

The update for this month – along with small improvements and bug fixes – contains a new version of electric discharge animations. It is significantly [...]

Planet Animation

It is quite simple to create a space scene like this. You only need two things. 1. The photo map of any planet. (For this lesson I peaked up the Earth [...]

New Versions of Animation Editors – June Release

This month the collection of animation tools was extended with an awesome fire brush. This brush makes the whole screen fire effect obsolete, because now you [...]

New Versions of Animation Editors – May Release

We recently completed a new update of our animation engine and released a new version of all corresponding programs. In this release we have fixed a few [...]

Creating Waving Flag Animation

Preview of the final result Step 1 First of all, you need to prepare a background image. For this lesson I took a 800x500 image of the pirate [...]

New Versions of Animation Editors – February Release

This month our animation tools were extended with this brand new tool: Drift brush. This tool will make any area of the background rock like a ship on the [...]