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Miss Quids takes a look at animation in ImageMagick, including the three basic types: coalesced, overlay, and cleared frame animations.

Coalesced: convert -delay 20 -loop 0 *.png coalesced.gif

Overlay: convert -delay 100 -size 1000x1000 xc:SkyBlue -page +0+0 wilber1.png -page +500+0 wilber2.png -page +0+500 wilber3.png -page +500+500 wilber4.png -loop 0 overlay.gif

Cleared frame: convert -delay 0 -size 1000x1000 xc:SkyBlue +antialias -dispose previous -delay 100 -page +0+0 wilber1.png -page +500+0 wilber2.png -page +0+500 wilber3.png -page +500+500 wilber4.png -loop 0 cleared.gif

Description: > Miss Quids takes a look at animation in ImageMagick, including the three basic types: coalesced, overlay, and cleared frame animations. > > Coalesced: > convert -delay 20 -loop 0 *.png coalesced.gif > > Overlay: > convert -delay 100 -size 1000x1000 xc:SkyBlue -page +0+0 wilber1.png -page +500+0 wilber2.png -page +0+500 wilber3.png -page +500+500 wilber4.png -loop 0 overlay.gif > > Cleared frame: > convert -delay 0 -size 1000x1000 xc:SkyBlue +antialias -dispose previous -delay 100 -page +0+0 wilber1.png -page +500+0 wilber2.png -page +0+500 wilber3.png -page +500+500 wilber4.png -loop 0 cleared.gif

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Tedious command line animation

Or just open the pics as layers in Gimp and export as .gif. Poof. Done in 10 seconds.