Animager

A tool to easily animate your graphic design or illustration project.

Save and git commit step by step, your graphic design process and use Animager to build a video to show the progress. Animager users Git - a version control system to record and grab all the stages of your design project. Use Sparkleshare to easily commit file. What Animager does is rolling the git commits and capture the image for each commit as a temporary image, collect all temporary images and build a video.

Supported image formats and OS's

Animager uses imagemagick to convert the images. Supported image format list is here.

Tested on GNU/Linux only.

Dependencies

• ffmpeg
• imagemagick
• python3
• C++ compiler - g++

Install Animager

• Download the zip file.
• Open Terminal and do:

  cd src

sh install.sh

Now Animager is installed.

Setup with Git and/or Sparkleshare

We suggest you use Sparklshare to make the git commits to get a really nice staep by step video. Using Sparkleshare will allow Animager to get all the saved stages of your file into video. Otherwise you can do git commit once a while to get the needed stages.

• Install Sparkleshare
• Set Up a Git repo in a remote service. If it is a public project you can use GitHub. BitBucket let youhave free private repos.
• Set up the repo in Sparkleshare
• Save your file in any of the supported formats and start working. Save once in a while as you would normally do.
• A short video on set up with Inkscape here

How to use animager

Once you are done and want to generate a video..

animager -p profileName -i [path-to-your-image] -o [path-to-your-output-folder]

Included profiles : hd-720p hd-1080p sd-360 sd-480

Example: animager -p hd-720p -i /home/lahiru/sparkleshare/test/drawing.svg -o /home/lahiru/desktop

If you don't mention -o [path-to-your-output-folder], video will be saved in root folder as ~/animager/out.mp4

Other options

• Get a list of profiles animager -plist all

• Create a new profile animager -pnew profileName -h height -w weight -f frameRate

Example: animager -pnew test -h 240 -w 320 -f 30

ToDo

• See Issues for future development plans.

Credits

• Lahiru Pathirage (lpsandaruwan)
• Pathum Egodawatta (pathumego)

License

Animager is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. You are welcome to change and redistribute it under certain conditions. For more information see the LICENSEfile.