Gifs

Jops

Is there a good program out there for putting together animated gifs? Because the one I am using now keeps crashing, I have all of the pics but I can't get it to save as a gif, do any of you guys know of one?

Thanx

Jops,

OneManArmy

<a href="http://www.ulead.com/" target="_blank">Ulead systems, awsome animation software, free trial...</a>

Skrift

I use MSgifanimator. I think it´s free. :/ It hasn´t got all those fancy new options and stuff but it does the job for me.

Jops

Hey thanx I got my gif working, now does anybody know of a place I can upload one and use it as an avatar like that one sighosting site Jedi Yoshi pointed me to?

Novakoala

My avatar was done in <a href="http://www.jasc.com" target="_blank">AnimationShop 3</a>.

Hosting: Put it on <a href="http://www.imahosting.com" target="_blank">ImaHosting</a> and in you 'avatar location' thing type in the address ImaHosting gives you.

Alternatively:

<a href="http://www.clanpages.com" target="_blank">ClanPages</a>
<a href="http://www.boomspeed.com" target="_blank">Boomspeed</a>

I can't remember any more hosts. Type in 'sig hosting' on Google, you should get a few there.

Skrift

Add <a href="http://www.netfirms.com" target="_blank">Netfirms</a> to that list. It requires knowledge of FTP though (which is easy as hell).

Jops

wadda u guys think of the gif I made? Its a little messed up with that gray line on top but I'll fix it later and thanx for your help <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Llama_Killer

Good work JOPS!

BLACK_Monkey

That's SWEET! <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->


By the way, I could be able to make gifs, but the computer I use doesn't have beans worth of space left. <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->

Jops

It doesn't take much space, my gif alone was 67kb I think

BTS_Squirrel

so, the deal is, in order to make an animated gif, yougotta individually creat each frame?


... fun.

QUAD

Actually, most modern computer animation is done mostly with what some poeple love to call "Tweening"

Basically, you say "I want this to start this way, and end this way" And the computer fills in the spaces between those two points.

BTS_Squirrel

yeah, i no about that. but how would a poor person like me do that.

BaK

Its a little hard to learn at first, but try using flash.
Do a few tutorials before anything else.
After your done you can export it right to a .gif

<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/trial_download/" target="_blank">Flash Trial</a>


...anyone else know a better program with tweening?