How to create an animation with 2 imported images

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Hi there - I wanted to create an animation with 2 input images that I already have: f1.png and f2.png.
So f1.png and f2.png are the 2 keyframes in my animation.

I opened pixi, opened the images one by one which worked.
After this, I tried dragging each of the image into a new frame in the timeline but it’s not draggable.

It seems so simple and yet I might be missing something?

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Hi, you can create an empty cel and paste your image into current layer (Shift + V).

Hope that helps

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Thanks got it working :slight_smile:

Here are the steps I took for future reference:

  1. Open Pixi Editor → File → New project → Save it as a pixi project (say Temp1.pixi)
  2. File → Open File → f1.png
  3. File → Open File → f2.png
  4. Go to the Temp1.pixi tab → Click on the timeline icon at the top (This opens the timeline view)
  5. Create empty cel by clicking on the + icon
  6. Go to f1.png tab, select the base layer on the right, then do: Edit → Copy
  7. Come back the timeline, select the newly created empty cel and press, Shift + v
  8. Now create another new cel and do the same for f2.png

Interesting thing is that when you create a new cel and paste the image in it, the cel continues to look empty until you add another cel when the first cel updates with the picture that you had just pasted.
Also I was using Ctrl + v as the paste shortcut blindly without checking that it is infact Shift + v :open_mouth:

But this is all working now.
Appreciate the help!