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# animate?
need hints on how to animate - not that I really want the cars to move, and not that moving cars on roads are invariably realistic, but its always amusing to increase pollution
(in-knock-you-us, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 19:22, archived)
# How is it amusing to increase pollution?
(I helped save b3ta! wastedindustry yes indeed sir, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 19:23, archived)
# I'm just wondering what it's meant to be...
Also, to animate, I recommend Macromedia Flash. MX should be pretty damn cheap on ebay these days, and it'll do what you want it to unless you have an intel mac.
(I helped save b3ta! B.T., Thu 26 Jul 2007, 19:24, archived)
# Imageready ftw.
Flash is decent, but the end result tends to be an overly-large, over-optimised gif.
(I helped save b3ta! wastedindustry yes indeed sir, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 19:25, archived)
# ^this
stupid enter button

is the right idea. Imageready indeed.
(Pavlov'sDog is all out of pavlova, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 19:26, archived)
# ^ what he said
(I helped save b3ta! war3n3xt < I'm with stupid, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 19:57, archived)
# With CS3, they come out pretty damn good I think
my animation below was only about 60k, in imageready I had to really fight it to get the filesize down...

Plus flash is easier to use, I think.
(I helped save b3ta! B.T., Thu 26 Jul 2007, 19:26, archived)
# Flash is good if you're making an animation frame by frame.
With IR you can create all the layers in Photoshop, export it, and your gif is practically done.
I've never had a problem with filesize... Colour palettes and dither are your friends.
(I helped save b3ta! wastedindustry yes indeed sir, Thu 26 Jul 2007, 19:30, archived)