
it causes virtually every single pixel in your image to change in every single frame
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 10:52,
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if you didn't do the fade it would work out much smaller in file size.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:12,
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I just assumed that as I'd saved each layer as a 25k file, reassembling them would be about 350K.
Didn't realise GIFs end up much bigger!
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:23,
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Didn't realise GIFs end up much bigger!

the heavier the filesize I can't remember the name of the b3tard but he does those silhouette animations which have a massive canvas size but are extremely small on filesize because the only moving parts are the silhouettes which are usually smaller on the canvas this is a prime example of gif optimisation.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:27,
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