I know It's nothing big and fancy but it's a basic thing I think some people might not know.
Ok so I made an animated ball just bouncing around. I got the insperation from the animated rain tutorial.
1.Ok first make a new picture. I made mine 500x500

2. Use the circle selection tool to make a circle at your starting point.*hint* use the Shift key to make a perfect circle.
3. Fill the selection with a gredient with those settings like so.

your picture should look like that right now.

4.Make a new layer filled with white. Now you should still see the selection from last time. Make a new circular selection a little off of the one you see in the direction you want the ball to move.Here's what I'm and doing.

5. Fill the circle you made the same way you did the other one.

6. Keep moving the ball every layer till you are done. After that go to Filters>animation>the secont thing on there and click play. If you like it just go to Filters>animation>the third thing and them save the file as gif. There you go that's the animated ball. Here's my outcome.
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j284/ ... all1-1.gif
You can add all kinds of background , lasers all kind of things yyou want.
Comment And Outcomes are welcome.

in ur avatar id be better if the text wasnt tehre and it was just bouncing around

Well yes but considering that you can make all kind of things moving around. It's just the technique.

when i started to make my second one it combined with the first and made a funy shaped thing

hmmm. i've been animating for quite a while, but it's an okay tut. :w:

the tut wont work for me!

I dont know what you mean but I want to see the funny thing :l: :l: :l:

just an idea, wouldn't it be easier to just duplicate the ball after you did it once and move the duped layer to where you need it instead of remaking it?

and if for any reason you needed to change the angle the light was coming from, you could just rotate it.

yes that would be easier. I thiught of that when I was writing the tutorial but it was too late to cahnge it. Anyway how is the tutorial.

its easy for me to follow, nice tut, the only thing is you might want to do is call it exactly what its called instead of "Filters>animation>the third thing"


although I already knew how to do everything in it so I didn't learn anything from it.

Well I don't know how to translate the thing becouse my GIMP is in bulgarian not in english

why do u have a bulgarian gimp?

quoted for emphasis. :

What is emphasis and I have it in Bulgarian becouse I thought that it would be easier to use but it's not and now I have to reinstal GIMP to chaange the language.

Hehe you can do this with any shapes and so on but you gotta see mine post when uploaded to photobucet =)

I would say It's really good except at the beggining you see 2 balls for a second. Really good glad you like it. I also want to know how you made the BG. I'm quite confused.

the background is just a red to black gradient

yeah lol but didn't click on new layer when i was making balls so i didn't want to take out 25 layers to fix it =)

i finaly figured it out heres mine

I'm making one right now that's gonna be BIG (well not really big but more than the last one)

VORTAGERN URS IS HELLARIOUS! nice job!

I likw his too really nice

Could you not just render one ball then animate it as a path? Uneven spacing might appear to look like speeding up or slowing down

yes but I didn't know how to use GAP when I made it lol not tha tI know now O.o