NewsForge: Command-Line Animations Using ImageMagick

” If the success of the ‘Shrek,’ ‘Toy Story,’ ‘Stuart Little,’
‘The Incredibles,’ and many other Hollywood hits is any indication,
animations add glitz to the mundane. While animation in the movies
still requires professional animation packages like Blender, you
can make simple animations using the command-line wizardry of
ImageMagick.

“There are three basic steps to making an animation. First you
need an idea. Next, you need a set of images to run through in
individual frames. You can get the images from your digital camera
or your scanner or draw them using ImageMagick or the GIMP. Once
you have these ready, all you need to do is to put them together
into an animation…”

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