Animation for dummies

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Here's a question that makes it clear how little I know.

How do I animate an avtar?
 
You need a prog that will open the image up, allow you to add frames and edit the pics in the frames to get the animation movement then save them as a single image as a .gif

Photoshop (and the prog it comes with, Imageready) will do it but probably the easiest one to get to grips with is Jascanim.....Google it and you should find it easily enough.

The problem with making GIFs is they are big, and you need to make the end file withing the bounds of the Avatar size allowance.....(90x90 pixels, less than 120kb IIRC)

Jascanim will do this for you as well :thumb
 
Thanks chaps. I have an "about to get out of my depth" feeling coming on - cheerio Tuesday....

Unless Andy bales me out.

Just fancied a drinking Bender.
 
Fanum said:
You need a prog that will open the image up, allow you to add frames and edit the pics in the frames to get the animation movement then save them as a single image as a .gif

Photoshop (and the prog it comes with, Imageready) will do it but probably the easiest one to get to grips with is Jascanim.....Google it and you should find it easily enough.

The problem with making GIFs is they are big, and you need to make the end file withing the bounds of the Avatar size allowance.....(90x90 pixels, less than 120kb IIRC)

Jascanim will do this for you as well :thumb

I googled.. but not many hits.. no homepage

have you a link
 
Gimmee five mins and I'll send you botha URL....please don't pass it on though...you'll see why from the URL ;)
 
Just fancied a drinking Bender.

really ??

what about one that doesn't drink ?

are you 'that' perverted ?

Hmmm - i think you are.
 
Fanum said:
Gimmee five mins and I'll send you botha URL....please don't pass it on though...you'll see why from the URL ;)
In that case can we have a break from your spanking hippo its just so flippin irritating in the corner of your eye :confused:

....I even preffered the pooing potty boy... :rolleyes:






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Room 101 said:
In that case can we have a break from your spanking hippo its just so flippin irritating in the corner of your eye :confused:

....I even preffered the pooing potty boy... :rolleyes:






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That from the the girl with the skeleton bouncing on it's enlarged gonads :D :D
 
schiannini said:
Was this what you were hoping to achieve Bigtwin?


Very good! I get the gist, but it's a bit more "parkinsons" really when you look at it...
 
motomartin said:
Just fancied a drinking Bender.

are you 'that' perverted ?

Hmmm - i think you are.

Spot on - I don't care what everyone else says, you're clearly not an imbicile :D
 
finglonga said:
:clap :clap :clap


Redundant!!! ;)


Not yet - I'm still new at this...

I had a go at incorporating your xray into your avatar and it didn't quite work..

Then I noticed you originally moved the hand at the wrist (oh I can hear the comments now) rather than my :nono movement.

I decided it may be a) bad taste, b) more effort than I could be bothered with so I haven't fixed it.

It looked like this:
 

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schiannini said:
Not yet - I'm still new at this...

I had a go at incorporating your xray into your avatar and it didn't quite work..

Then I noticed you originally moved the hand at the wrist (oh I can hear the comments now) rather than my :nono movement.

I decided it may be a) bad taste, b) more effort than I could be bothered with so I haven't fixed it.

It looked like this:

Not bad taste, don't worry about that! :thumb

I was doing a simmilar one but it was taking longer than I expected. Ill try to finish sometime. :confused:
 


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