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Hello everyone,

i might be asking too much, but who knows maybe my message in a bottle could get an answer.
I have tried to create falling rain , a cartoonish one not realistic , but somehow it didn't work.

Could anyone show me with examples how to do that using frame by frame animation...I can't go down the particles route because I simply can't understand its technicalities , at least for the time being...as I am a newbie .

I would really love to be shown a very very simple way to do it if that is possible...and I will be forever grateful

Leila

A simple cartoon like rain can be done changing quickly two or three images of the rain alternatively. The more tedious part is to create the rain images.

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Yeah, I know that and I did it , it's just that the result is not very good so i 'd like to see some example and then i could create my own . It's giving me a headache.

Hello keyboard74
You can do it with Noise gradient. I made an example, very simple :

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Thanks a lot mad0.... I am extremely grateful for your help. Your sample taught me something new in a very simple way...better than any tutorial.
However, I can't see how I can add this gradient noise to an existing scene with different colours.
what i am in fact trying to achieve is a believable animation of falling big drops same as in cartoons using three frames.
I hope I'll get it right someday...

Cheers

Hello keyboard74,

I don't understand very well, in my example the noise gradient is white/transparent, so it can be added over a scene with differents colours.
But it's just simple rain, not a believable animation of falling big drops
However, the basic principle can probably be improved !

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Thanks mad0, i copied it and added it to my animation and it worked.. how stupid of me! ...I thought I needed to add Noise gradient + modifications to my background.

You're great thanks.

And if you wanna try something a little more complex you could follow the tutorial http://wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Doc:Realist ... _Animation (by Bootye)
B.

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