Animations

SilentMurdererSilentMurderer Join Date: 2002-10-30 Member: 1751Members
in Artwork Forum
CAn someone tell me how to make animations... If it's possible with Photoshop Plz tell me... Otherwise tell me a program to do it...
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    <a href='http://www.thewavelength.net/oldsite/2dart/tutorials/spritetutorial.html' target='_blank'>Google is your friend</a>
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  • SilentMurdererSilentMurderer Join Date: 2002-10-30 Member: 1751Members
    umm... I didn't understand **** of that...
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  • CobyCoby Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8210Members
    DOOManiac, I have this feeling that he meant just... animations.. Like the one's you do with Animation Shop. There are some free gif-animation prgrams i think. Not sure about Photoshop's abilities. I think that you need something like Adobe Illustrator (the animation program of Adobe) and those programs are helluva expensive so I think keep on the freeware line <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • SilentMurdererSilentMurderer Join Date: 2002-10-30 Member: 1751Members
    Any suggestions?
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  • Mr_HeadcrabMr_Headcrab Squee&#33;~ Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9392Members, Constellation
    to quote DooMANIAC, <a href='http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=+gif+animator' target='_blank'>Google is your friend</a>
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  • Vicious_VPVicious_VP Join Date: 2002-12-05 Member: 10492Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Coby+Jan 5 2003, 06:39 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Coby @ Jan 5 2003, 06:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think that you need something like Adobe Illustrator (the animation program of Adobe) ...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I think you mean Adobe ImageReady. ImageReady is for animations ... Illustrator is for ... well ... illustratoins <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • SilentMurdererSilentMurderer Join Date: 2002-10-30 Member: 1751Members
    edited January 2003
    I have ImageReady! How do you use it? How do i SAVE animations in ImageReady?
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  • CobyCoby Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8210Members
    <a href='http://www.google.fi/search?q=Adobe+Imageready+tutorials&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=fi&lr=' target='_blank'>Google is your friend</a> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Oh and yes, you were right about the ImageReady, I just didn't know cos I don't use them, I only have experiense in Photoshop <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • SilentMurdererSilentMurderer Join Date: 2002-10-30 Member: 1751Members
    Allright... But how do i make the images smaller? This SIG is too big in filesize <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> :
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  • ElboElbo Join Date: 2002-08-23 Member: 1218Members
    mess around with the .gif settings.
    you can make it 128 colours for example (though the quality sux that way though)
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  • NovakoalaNovakoala Join Date: 2002-07-17 Member: 962Members, Constellation
    Try removing every other frame. If the animation is still of an acceptable quality (obviously if you remove frames the animation will appear to be jerky) then save it as that (you'll have halfed the filesize).

    Click 'Save for Web' under the File menu and fiddle around with the settings there.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    I'd also suggest mapping to the palette of the first image in your animation... problem I had until I realized. If you don't, pixels tend to jump around when you don't want them to. Shaves off a little here and there on the filesize as well, having an optimized palette like that. And if it's limited-colour, only having a 128-colour palette won't hurt too much. Can go even lower if you're just grayscaling (or mostly-grayscaling, if you don't mind a little artifacting here and there).

    Been having similar problems myself.. manage to get a satisfactory animation together with only a little bit of shifting (About as much as in some of the AUS sigs), but the lowest that I've managed to get the file is 71KB. I've seen acceptable animations done in FAR less than that (9KB, believe it's 'eon') but can't figure out how to set the replace method to only do a sectional replace (as the whole GIF isn't moving, just one small section) in any of the tools I've nabbed off Google... GIF Construction Set turning out the smallest filesize so far.

    About the only thing I can think of at this point is to reduce the image size... which perversely gives a *larger* finished file. :b Anyone know a good squeezer? Or a better animated gif-maker than GCS?
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  • SilentMurdererSilentMurderer Join Date: 2002-10-30 Member: 1751Members
    Thnx for your help! Apparently the one i made this sig for chosed an other <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
    Thnx anyways!

    SilentMurderer
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    Anyone know how to do sig animation like this one of my friends... he didnt make it and forgot who did it...

    <img src='http://home.attbi.com/~clifff123/mavsig.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • Vicious_VPVicious_VP Join Date: 2002-12-05 Member: 10492Members
    I played with it and got it to 55K (128 colors) ... pretty good for that size of a pic. You could only tell the color loss in the monitor scroll, no where else ... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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