yay to humphrey and duncan




my site
( ? .[]D.[].[]0[].[]D. ?, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:08, archived)

Blimey!
Thank you very much! Can I use them for... something?


( Tedious, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:10, archived)

of course you can sir



my site
( ? .[]D.[].[]0[].[]D. ?, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:10, archived)

Could you
email them to me? I'll remember to use them then.
( Tedious, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:12, archived)

cap'n tom!
i have an owl here, and i tried making a stop frame animation of it. But it was huge.
Any optimisation tips other than the usual ones for stopframes?
I've managed stuff like this:

alright.
Help me :P
( Mushroom, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:14, archived)

Woo
I thought you were gonna do the whole hand gesture thingy from Close Encounters.
( koit WWW.HIGHASAKOIT.CO.UK, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:16, archived)

lol
i wouldn't know it without seeing it again :P
( Mushroom, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:20, archived)

Hehe. No problem.
Keep the GIF 160x120 maximum. Make sure the background stays pretty static while smaller characters move about.

If they MUST move about in the foreground, don't worry about smoothness; reduce the number of frames. (GIFs only store new pixels in the file for ones that change - all others are transparent. Big blocks of transparency mean filesize savings.)

Reduce the number of colours. Reduce dithering. Increase lossiness just a little (if you're using ImageReady).

If you're really bored, use the clone brush to copy and paste the background from each frame into the next -- that way NONE of the background pixels change AT ALL and you make mad filesize savings. That's really a last resort though.
( Tedious, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:30, archived)

That reminds me
I'm probably not the first person to say "Oooooh! New donation icons!"
( HP SPEEDCORE!, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:13, archived)

no
lol probally last
( ? .[]D.[].[]0[].[]D. ?, Fri 16 May 2003, 23:15, archived)