Export the Loop
Lesson 6 of 6 · Intermediate · 5 min
What you will make
A transparent 48 by 16 PNG, plus an editable project backup.
Lesson checklist
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Confirm the seams are transparent, export a 48 by 16 PNG, and download your project backup.
Open a 48 × 16 practice canvas with lesson examples and onion skin enabled. Your work saves automatically to My projects.
Starter files and backup import
Follow the steps
Check transparency and cell alignment, then export the strip.
Start with: The tested three-frame loop.
- 1
Check the seams
The 16-pixel gaps must show the checkerboard. A white seam between cells appears in every frame of the finished animation.
Transparent gaps between all three cells.
- 2
Confirm the dimensions after export
Reopen the exported file and check it is still 48 by 16. A rescaling export breaks every cell boundary at once.
A sheet that survived the export unchanged.
- 3
Export at 1x
Take the native 48 by 16 file. Scale the PNG afterwards if you need a larger version for display, never before slicing.
A 48 by 16 transparent PNG.
- 4
Keep the project for the next pass
Download a project backup. Animating is iterative: you will want to retime this loop without redrawing three frames.
A PNG and a project you can retime.
See the technique
The same finished loop
Nothing changes, this is a check
Learning notes and references
- Confirm the gaps between cells stay transparent.
- Verify no cell shifted after export.
- Keep the editable project, since the next iteration needs it.