Hello all and welcome to my second tutorial!! In this tutorial you will learn how to create a spinning globe animation like this one!

This is a VERY EASY tutorial

- The GIMP

- A World Map Render - I used this one (Click) - Although you can probably find a better quality one on your own.

First open up your GIMP program, Click File>Open>(Map Render)

Now click Script-Fu>Animators>Spinning Globe...

A popup will appear, dont change anything just press OK

Wait for it to finish [Map to Sphere] and your map should now be in a sphere form!

Now click Filters>Animation>Optimize (for GIF)

Another Popup should appear that looks like an exact duplicate of what you had before you hit Optimize

Now click File>Save-As Now you have to name it and then type .gif  and hit OK

Example:   Globe.gif

A Popup will appear that gives you two options - Save as animation and Merge visible layers.

Click on Save as Animation and hit OK.

Yet another popup will appear that looks like this:

Don't touch anything but the millisecond part. Keep the setting at 100 if you want a slow globe, 200 if you want a medium globe and 300 if you want a really fast globe. The example above is at 250 milliseconds.

Hit OK and your done!!!

EDIT: Spacing Fixed