Forgot to mention: steal my lighting style, and I'll have to give you a kick in the pants. Oh, and I'll bitch at you. Stealing styles is the same as stealing art; not only does it show unoriginality, it's just pathetic.

To see the final result of the emote used in this tutorial,
click here.
^{(The emote is using the Combine method, though it would look the same if it was using the Replace method. Note that the times of the layers are 2000ms and 70ms.)}

^CookiemagiK said that he wasn't sure how to animate in GIMP, so I figured I should make a tutorial.
Yes, I know, it's ugly as hell, but it's the information that counts.
^{Cut me some slack, it's my first tutorial.}

The tutorial starts AFTER you have created something to animate, so this is useless for those of you who can't make emotes or pixel art. Maybe I'll make a tutorial for that later.
This goes through the process of animating, including both methods of animating, layer naming, and the final touches.

Keep in mind:
This is a basic tutorial; build and learn off of it. If you want your emote to move, then each new layer would be shifted up, down, left or right.
If you want the emote to talk, you need to animate the mouth closing, then opening.
Walking consists of diagonal movements.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.


Programs used: GIMP (pixel art and screenshots), Paint.NET (tutorial).


_{Requested by ~aicaz: Advanced Animation tutorial at the GIMP website, using the GIMP GAP tool, easily found and downloaded around the GIMP site.}


Permission given to explosivegfx.com to use this tutorial.