Hello everyone.
Today I’m going to show you how to animate a photo of a waterfall and create a short GIF animation. Since Gif animations loop indefinitely, you will see a jump between loops. This is normal and cannot be avoided.
This is also a simple animation (there is no fading or other effects added here).
I hope this little demo will inspire you to give it a try. It’s fun and easy.
Made especially for beginners!!!
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Prepare the picture before animating it
02:28 Clone parts of your picture
03:44 Animate the waterfall
07:33 Clean up the top of the animation
08:17 Test different frame rates (Speed)
08:53 Paint some mist at the bottom of the waterfall
09:38 Animate the mist
10:24 Render your animation
11:11 Conclusion
Have fun trying and thank you for watching.
https://youtu.be/GxcpCem6SzE
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Hello and well done @CelticCoco 
That texture stretching technique to simulate movement is a good and simple idea but as you pointed out, there is the loop jump back problem.
Also, looking closely, the texture stretching followed by sudden texture contraction is easily noticed.
If you select/extract the water, as you did, then stretch it vertically, you could move that taller image down in animated vertical movement, with top and bottom edge masking.
That way, there would be no texture stretching but there would be apparent movement.
There would still be a loop jump but by careful choice of the loop position, it might not be very noticeable.
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This is such a great idea. Didn’t think about it! Thank you so much.
And by the way, how are you? Haven’t heard from you in a while. I hope you are doing great.
By hugs from far. 
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I’m fine thank you. I was worried that you might ask me to provide a demonstration of the method I suggested so I’m glad that you didn’t
I’ll look forward to your next tutorial.
(I’ve recently thought of a method that would give a continous loop with no loop jump and I might try that one day. If I do then I’ll post the result here in a reply.)
Great to hear that you are doing well. And thank you. If you do find a method that works better than the one I showed, it will help a lot of people.
