# vtu,animation
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtu-animation/8215
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 5, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtu-animation/8215 "2022-04-05T07:57:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@chengchengjing](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/chengchengjing)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtu-animation/8215/1 "2022-04-05T07:57:44Z")
I have a series of vtu files, sincerely ask how to make animations？Thanks for you help.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtu-animation/8215/2 "2022-04-05T08:05:15Z")
Hi @chengchengjing ,
- File → Open → Open your .series or file…
- Press play
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### Author:  [@chengchengjing](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/chengchengjing)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtu-animation/8215/3 "2022-04-05T08:21:48Z")
Thanks for your help, following your method successfully solved the problem in paraview. But if I want to animate in vtk c++, how can I do it? I didn’t find a suitable case.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtu-animation/8215/4 "2022-04-05T08:25:41Z")
Sorry I missed this is VTK discourse. You may want to take a look at this example:
[https://kitware.github.io/vtk-examples/site/Cxx/Utilities/Animation/](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-examples/site/Cxx/Utilities/Animation/)
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### Author:  [@chengchengjing](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/chengchengjing)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtu-animation/8215/5 "2022-04-05T08:57:35Z")
Thank you so much