After the exhilarating morning celebration of Pongal, the harvest festival, the afternoons are usually doozy – probably because of gobbling down Sweet Pongal, the dish. I never understood why the Sweet Pongal dish is called Sakarai (Sugar) Pongal, as it is jaggery which is used to prepare it – and not the white sugar.
To my surprise, the afternoon did not turn out to be a day to laze about, but was quite refreshing. It also provided the opportunity to try out an animation helper plugin for Paint.NET (PdN). The TechnoRobbo’s Keyframe is a fantastic plugin for small animation. What it does is introduce a basicsprite tweening and a timeline like tools features in PdN. An object can be made to travel along a path, rotate, shrink or zoom with it.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. so, instead of trying to explain in words, here is a Pongal Doodle, sorry, a Moodle. As usual, Google has deemed Pongal festival as a religious holiday, and has not put out a Doodle – the last time they released a Doodle for Pongal or Makar Sankaranti was in 2011 (and the first was in 2010).
So what if there is no Pongal Doodle, here is a Moodle, and what TR’s keyframe plugin for PdN is capabale of. The images were all handrawn in Paint.Net 4.0.9 . It was exported as XCF file into GIMP for turning it into an optimized Animated GIF. GIMP 2.9 turned the 22 layer into an optimzed GIF of 13 layers.
Both the rising-travelling Sun, and the boiling Pongal in the pot were made ridiculously easy by TR’s Keyframe plugin.
To my surprise, the afternoon did not turn out to be a day to laze about, but was quite refreshing. It also provided the opportunity to try out an animation helper plugin for Paint.NET (PdN). The TechnoRobbo’s Keyframe is a fantastic plugin for small animation. What it does is introduce a basic
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. so, instead of trying to explain in words, here is a Pongal Doodle, sorry, a Moodle. As usual, Google has deemed Pongal festival as a religious holiday, and has not put out a Doodle – the last time they released a Doodle for Pongal or Makar Sankaranti was in 2011 (and the first was in 2010).
So what if there is no Pongal Doodle, here is a Moodle, and what TR’s keyframe plugin for PdN is capabale of. The images were all handrawn in Paint.Net 4.0.9 . It was exported as XCF file into GIMP for turning it into an optimized Animated GIF. GIMP 2.9 turned the 22 layer into an optimzed GIF of 13 layers.
Both the rising-travelling Sun, and the boiling Pongal in the pot were made ridiculously easy by TR’s Keyframe plugin.
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