Animation question

Watchface Design
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is the a certain program people use for animations? or website?
im not to sure on how to get those going, kind of like how Wutronics does his animations

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hello @PharaohG,

Ahere are a lot of animation tutorials at this website or here in this community forum… Wutronic’s animation are open for inspection eg. here… you could just have a look hove the whole watch face its “programmed”… At this particular watch face a simple picture by picture animation is used so far I see…

However, great super smooth animations could be done very easy using some mathematics… You could just try to draw a simple circle and copy the following expression to

Position X

(160+((50 * (sin(((((#ZHR#/60) * #DWE#)-(floor((#ZHR#/60) * #DWE#))) * 2 * pi))))))

What would you like to start with?

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Thanks @Tomas for always answering my questions lol

ok so theres no specific program like photoshop that people use? just picture by picture?

because i was wanting to create a motherboard or circuit board that glows for a background

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Well, it does not matter what kind of program you use actually… There is a secret insider tip that TOMAJA prepare almost 90% of his watch faces in powerpoint (!)… just please do not tell to anybody :wink:

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lol oh i guess ive got ALOT to learn here… hmm guess i should start simple and not try to match up the premium people lol

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…here a mini tutorial in the case you wish to burn your motherboard at the end :wink:

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oh man lol so this is gonna make me rack my brain… and my perfectionistic nature wont allow me to let it go lol

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@Tomas PowerPoint? I didn’t see that coming, never would have thought to use that program. In fact, I don’t even know how I would.

@PharaohG I totally know how you feel about the perfectionist nature. That’s why it takes me a month to release a new face. I try to get as close to perfect as physically possible but hey, that’s part of the fun. (For me anyways) Good luck though, I’m excited to see what you create!

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I’ve been know to use Microsoft Paint.

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@Tomas is there a way to change the digital time like instead of 12:00 it shows a image for each digit like instead of a 1… say i want an apple (just for the sake of this conversation) is there a way to do that?

or to replace the numbers with my own set of numbers that i created like… bubble ones or etc can i? :thinking: :spy:

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…something like this? :wink:

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also like this:

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@Tomas @eradicator09 yes… now if i could get a “smartwatch coding for dummies” version of how to implement them, id be eternally grateful

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Hi @PharaohG :wink: Let’s start…

Are you familiar with all, what’s described in this basic tutorial?

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im somewhat familiar with it… such as i just read it now :laughing:

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Excellent :wink:

Please draw a simple object and change the X-Position to

(160+((50 * (sin(((((#ZHR#/60) * #DWE#)-(floor((#ZHR#/60) * #DWE#))) * 2 * pi))))))

Now, your first animation is done! This moving object, could be a small glowing dot flying at your motherboard forward and back. If you multiply this effect you could make a pretty nice “electronic effect”

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Here’s a helpful tool I use for making short animations:

Also there’s tricks you can use like making multiple layers and stacking them, setting the transparency to change as the seconds go by…
IE:

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@Tomas ok

but how do i change the digital time numbers to lets say a “photoshopped” set of numbers i have so that they go with my background like how @eradicator09 did with his fire watch

teach me oh great jedi

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Hi @PharaohG, for a set of pictures just have a look at this again :wink: Super Easy!

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maybe im not getting it… but how would i make it change from lets say 1:00pm to 2:00pm on time as well as for the minutes etc etc lol