Tutorials -- Creating Animated GIFs

Please note: This tutorial was originally written for 3D Canvas 7. It has not been fully updated to reflect the changes made in 3D Canvas 8. An updated version will be made available in a future version of 3D Canvas 8.

Creating Animated GIFs

3D Canvas Pro can not create animated GIFs by itself. It can however create the images that a third party GIF animating program such as GIF Movie Gear requires to create an animated GIF.

What follows is an explanation of how to create an animated GIF using 3D Canvas Pro.

Create or open a 3D Canvas animation.

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Show the Animation Toolbar using the View Menu.

Switch to Animation Mode by selecting

.

Click

to record the animation.

Select "Save Animation as Images". This will save the animation images individually as Windows bitmap (bmp) files.

You will be asked to enter a filename to save the animation. This filename will be the base filename for the images created. Each image will use this name with a number appended. For example if you choose to save as "animation.bmp" the result would be a group of numbered images starting with animation001.bmp.

The images created by 3D Canvas Pro can then be used by a GIF animating program such as GIF Movie Gear to create an animated GIF.