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#1   ForteGX 

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    Posted 11 November 2004 - 05:10 PM

    This is a topic dedicated to Animated gifs. Post your knowledge, give some tutorials, or ask for help. Also, feel free to make requests, too. :P

    Have fun.

    Personally, I'd like to know your opinions regarding what you think are the best animators to use.

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      Posted 11 November 2004 - 05:58 PM

      Animated gifs are just very similar to Flash in the making. In Fireworks it is anyways, it just works with frames.

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        Posted 12 November 2004 - 02:23 PM

        I need help, I got a sheet for an FE sprite, modified it to my preference but what programs do you recommend using to make it work

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          Posted 13 November 2004 - 12:05 PM

          Well, Ulead Gif animator studio is fine if you aren't trying anything big, but use something like movie gear if you want a really good outcome.

          If you want kiku, you can give me the frames, and I will animate them.

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            Posted 14 November 2004 - 08:28 AM

            I have the Animation thing that comes free with PSP. I made something in it but it didn't come out the way I wanted it to.
            It faded to black between each slide and I wanted it just to morph from slide 1 to slide 2 and show it morphing in between.

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              Posted 25 November 2004 - 09:39 PM

              Personally, everyone who attempts animation should use GIF movie gear. It's very simple to use, the program I use, actually.

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                Posted 26 November 2004 - 01:33 AM

                I can use Adobe ImageReady, it seems ...

                And so I shall make an animated FE sprite. =D

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                  Posted 02 December 2004 - 07:05 AM

                  Ulaed gif animator pwns, the animation wizard does the animation for you, plus you can convert video to gif format, and many others that I havn't explored yet :D.

                  My Method of Making animated sprites:
                  -Go into Visual Boy Advance and open my ROM
                  -Get to the screen of the sprite I want
                  -Pause the rom
                  -Press ctrl+n and save 1 oam images for every frame
                  -Use macromedia fireworks to remove the colour background of each sprite
                  -Open ulead gif animator and put every image in, then set the delay to 0.01 seconds
                  -Budda Bing Budda Boom, we have spriteage!

                  I made some from Shining Soul II, but they were pretty dodge so I won't post them.

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                    Posted 21 December 2004 - 04:35 PM

                    Adobe Photoshop 7.0 has an animator of sorts.

                    ImageReady allows you to use frames and optimizes .gif images in a basic form.

                    You can create animations in there.

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                      Posted 23 December 2004 - 06:26 AM

                      I use Jasc. Animation Shop. Is that one good? It's really easy to use.

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                        Posted 08 January 2005 - 06:49 AM

                        Help! o.O

                        I'm trying to make an animated gif with Flash, but when I save the movie, the quality is shocking :\. Anyone know how to improve the quality?

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                          Posted 15 January 2005 - 03:34 AM

                          Oh I didn't see this topic previously. I don't know how to animate in Image Ready. I'm trying to find out currently.

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                            Posted 15 January 2005 - 07:24 AM

                            Image ready is best for taking already animated images (like my avatar), changing the colours and using photoshop filters :smile:.

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                              Posted 30 January 2005 - 07:51 PM

                              if you just have several images you would like to 'merge' into one animated GIF, Ulead Gif Animator is very good for that, the animation wizard does it for you really, then you can edit the delay time between fram etc.

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                                Posted 30 January 2005 - 08:07 PM

                                I use ulead .gif animator...and it's pretty easy to use I use it for putting words on my avies mostly tho it can do a lot more than that =P

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                                  Posted 30 January 2005 - 08:28 PM

                                  For words on avies etc. stick to photoshop. For animation, ulead is good, though I havn't learned ALL the features yet.

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                                    Posted 30 January 2005 - 08:37 PM

                                    I don't happen to have photoshop...so i use ulead besides it can do cool stuff with the words

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                                      Posted 05 February 2005 - 03:53 PM

                                      I would really like to know how to animate, and which programs are best for it. Can you help me?

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                                        Posted 05 February 2005 - 08:33 PM

                                        Well, animating is easy, you just need to find the frames, paste them into your animator (One of the best is Gif Movie Gear), align them, adjust the time, and save it as a GIF.

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                                          Posted 06 February 2005 - 04:37 AM

                                          Thanks PDM!!! Where do I get GIF movie gear? Is it a disk that you install??

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                                            Posted 11 February 2005 - 02:27 PM

                                            You can get the free trial (I got it, and it says "Trial expires in -3 days", it stays with you. XD) at download.com.

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                                              Posted 12 February 2005 - 01:02 PM

                                              http://img229.exs.cx/img229/3156/techsiganimated2kj.gif

                                              This is my first shot at an animated tech-style sig, now that I've gotten a good grasp of ImageReady's tools and features. This wasn't a totally serious attempt, so I didn't bother with color and the finer details were done with premade brushes. The graph is a little wonky, but I'm otherwise satisfied with the way it turned out.

                                              Note to self: Change avatar. *Done.*

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                                                Posted 15 March 2005 - 08:09 PM

                                                I dont really know how to do animated gifs but I do know this is a funny one
                                                http://www.goldensun-syndicate.net/forum/i...hp?showuser=280

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                                                  Posted 15 March 2005 - 08:39 PM

                                                  First of all: This is to discuss Animated GIFs, and for people to ask questions.
                                                  Secondly: It's not funny, it's cruel.

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                                                    Posted 15 March 2005 - 08:43 PM

                                                    hes the one that recorded himself o.O

                                                    anyways your right.

                                                    I figured out how to do animated gifs in Fireworks, really all you have to do is make an object than say animate points(dont remember where) then you can move it to where you need and change it and the shape and so on. did I mention you can make movies in flash and export them as gif.

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                                                      Posted 28 April 2005 - 09:22 PM

                                                      wow i can make one.....how do you make one? oh and what's the best software to do animated gifs? the only thing i have is adobe phtoshop cs (<--won't activate) and image ready

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                                                      I'm good with these gifs of which you speak.

                                                      Allow me to post a tutorial that was made a while back in hopes of educating a friend.

                                                      robotkiller said:

                                                      I made this tutorial about a year ago, but I think it's about time I bring place it on this forum.

                                                      First of all, I would like to give credit where credit is due, I used a tutorial from

                                                      Okay, I'm going to provide an overview on how to create animations with imageready and Virtualdub.
                                                      Well, be creating this:

                                                      http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/2220/bleachfaces9ky.gif

                                                      Before you start, here's what you need:

                                                      1. Virtualdub: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/virtual....3.zip?download

                                                      2. Imageready: It's included with Photoshop
                                                      You can buy the program, or certain programs like limewire can be very useful in acquiring it.

                                                      3. If you didn't figure it out, you will also need a avi video file :)

                                                      4. Create a folder on your desktop...called "artwork"

                                                      Once you extract the Virtualdub file, double-click the file and click on run

                                                      http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8341/kiratut18xz.th.jpg

                                                      Go to File---> open Video File.....(or CONTROL + O)

                                                      Now the movie loads in 2 screens, we don't really need to pay attention to it.
                                                      Just make sure you resize them so that you can edit the time line.

                                                      Go to the desired timeframe and press BEGIN (the begin of your image sequence). After that, keep clicking on 1 FRAME FORWARD until you think the action has stopped. After that click END (the end of your image sequence)


                                                      END OF STEP 1



                                                      robotkiller said:

                                                      I suggest that the frames shouldn't be any longer than 200 of frames. 100 frames is my standard maximum, any more and it can cause some serious loading issues.

                                                      -Next step: save the image sequence

                                                      http://img498.imageshack.us/img498/8192/kiratut27uv.th.jpg

                                                      Go to "save image sequence"


                                                      http://img498.imageshack.us/img498/5738/kiratut30gc.th.jpg

                                                      You will save the images to your "artwork" folder (Or any folder you like the images to be in) on your desktop

                                                      *.tga is recommend it will keep the images smallest.

                                                      End of Step 2



                                                      robotkiller said:

                                                      After you press okay, you should see this:

                                                      http://img498.imageshack.us/img498/6663/kiratut45bp.th.jpg

                                                      And if you look in your "artwork" folder, you will see the images from
                                                      bleach0000001.tga to bleach0000034.tga

                                                      Open the program Image Ready go to "Import-->Folder As Frames"

                                                      http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5171/kiratut50iz.th.jpg

                                                      You should see something along this line. It's the program opening up the files.

                                                      http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5184/kiratut65vs.jpg

                                                      End of Step 3



                                                      robotkiller said:

                                                      Go (above in the toolbar) to image > imagesize and reduce it to 130 x 98 (or use your own settings)

                                                      http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/3071/kiratut79zh.th.jpg

                                                      The file size should now be 130 X 98

                                                      http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6475/kiratut89jk.th.jpg


                                                      Just look to this image, you will understand where all the images are coming from. Upperleft bar is the preview window, the bar below is the timeframe, the bar on the right is the layer frame. We will only use the timeframe in this tutorial.

                                                      WARNING: You can only edit the image if you set the preview window to Original, and NOT to Optimized

                                                      End of Step 4



                                                      robotkiller said:

                                                      If you click optimized you'll come across some useful data

                                                      http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8182/kiratut95jp.th.jpg

                                                      That's pretty small size for a gif animation so you won't need to be edited. However, if the file was large we would have to reduce it.

                                                      Removing frames is the simplest way to reduce size.

                                                      http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/5282/kiratut107lw.th.jpg

                                                      (first go back to original preview mode)
                                                      Select a frame, and hold shift till the last frame you want to delete. And press the recycle bin.
                                                      And remove the frames

                                                      End of Step 5



                                                      robotkiller said:

                                                      Now edit the refreshrate of the images, i used 0.03 seconds. (delay time)

                                                      http://img498.imageshack.us/img498/3595/kira117ao.th.jpg

                                                      After that *GO TO File --> save optimized as Bleachintro.gif

                                                      http://img493.imageshack.us/img493/885/kiratut124ze.th.jpg


                                                      End of Tutorial



                                                      :knk Congratulations you now know how to create animations :knk


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                                                        Posted 14 June 2006 - 04:04 PM

                                                        View Postnick1presta, on Dec 21 2004, 06:35 PM, said:

                                                        Adobe Photoshop 7.0 has an animator of sorts.

                                                        ImageReady allows you to use frames and optimizes .gif images in a basic form.

                                                        You can create animations in there.



                                                        Imageready that comes with Photoshop CS2 is really easy to use, just as long as you aren't using the confusing layer composite thingers. Those are a pain in the butt. But if you just go frame by frame it's really easy and you have almost all of the fun things from photoshop (i don't think you get filters though D:)

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                                                          Posted 14 June 2006 - 08:18 PM

                                                          I was kinda ashamed when I found out that Image Ready is for site mapping and gif making...I never knew that before till last year x__x'


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