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# flying tonight....
This is my first attempt at a 'scrolling' animation. It's lost a whole load of definition in the optimising of the original - fcuking soul destroying.

In my browser it looks as jerky as fcuk - even when I upload it to cun*ybucket.com in its original state (600kb) it looks like shit - the poor bird looks like it's got a dyslexic left wing and the background looks like it's being loaded from a Spectrum.

Can anyone tell me how to get over the 'jerks'?


(Agnes McShyte can't be bothered to delete all her posts, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:54, archived)
# No idea.
Its much better than anything i could do.
Click and woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Cae1, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:54, archived)
# I always speed things up


and do very little in terms of movement to make things go smooth(ish)

this is vere good, mind!!
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:56, archived)
# Flaaaaappp!!!!!!!
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:58, archived)
# GUESS WHO'S BACK!
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:59, archived)
# slim shady?
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Pigeon Nipples Did you sit in some sugar?, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:59, archived)
# ^ this
with cdc bells
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:00, archived)
# No, FLAP!
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:01, archived)
# 'spluffs'
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:01, archived)
# Do you get the joke?
*Is hopeful*
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:03, archived)
# I'm ris-tastic with the 10 degrees
but the amount of Flap on board has overwhelmed me!
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:06, archived)
# It's from "Learning to Fly" by Pink Floyd.
There's a conversation that comes in halfway through, of Dave Gilmour going through the flight check

"Flaps, set - 10 degrees"
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:07, archived)
# makes sense now
'edit' wait, am I having 2 conversations with you, at the same time??

're-buffs space time continuum'
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:09, archived)
# Hahaha
You're right..

I feel loved..
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:12, archived)
# yay flap!
(chippy time travel agents, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:10, archived)
# AWWWWW
he has teh baby flaps
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:11, archived)
# YAY
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:12, archived)
# GIVE UP ON YOUR ELEGANT SCROLLING AND ACCEPT CRUDITY
(I helped save b3ta! kingofpork is the king of pork, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:57, archived)
# FACT
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:01, archived)
# SCIENCE!!!ONE
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:09, archived)
# I LOVE SCIENCE, ME
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:10, archived)
# Hahahahahaha wonderful
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:12, archived)
# aww! that's so cute


yay for random flying things
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:14, archived)
# is that... a... ham?
'tilts head'

I love this
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:15, archived)
# oh man
flying ham

:D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:15, archived)
# Sure is
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:16, archived)
# YAY!
(I helped save b3ta! head-doctor ololololo, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:06, archived)
# Alter the rate of frames per second?
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:57, archived)
# I like this
but I can't help you. I'm sorry. :/
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:58, archived)
# That parakeet's toupé is loose.
(I helped save b3ta! Malaka omdz, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:58, archived)
# The best way to get over jerks
Is divorce.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:58, archived)
# ouch!
're-fluffs'

: D
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:01, archived)
# This was my first and only :D
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:59, archived)
# I really must do one of those onday
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Pigeon Nipples Did you sit in some sugar?, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 23:59, archived)
# it's a goodie tho!
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:02, archived)
# Cheers :D
The moving car was an accident, the bigger version is stationary:
www.b3tards.com/u/1628d80a69fd3a28d054/nutsontheroadnimnimnim.gif

Hmm...stationary animation...
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:04, archived)
# makes sense to me!
NIM NIM NIM
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:06, archived)
# NUTS ON THE ROAD! NIM! NIM! NIM!
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:08, archived)
# I don't know what browser you are using
but did you set a delay on the frames?

Sometimes I find setting a very small delay (0.04 of a second) makes things run a lot faster than not setting a delay at all.

You can also avoid losing quality, by trying to choose source images with similar colour schemes. It you mash together pics with, for instance, all blue-ish hues the GIF pallate does nto have to hold many shades of many different colours.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:00, archived)
# Good advice there, and you can stick a layer over the whole animation that's a single colour
and use an effect like overlay or colour to bring down the number of colours into simpler shades, the less contrast of the final image, the less memory it takes up when optimised.

And jack up the lossy.

Oh, and it's worth knowing, any area that doesn't move, doesn't use any extra memory at all to display, so if there's a big area where nothing much is going on, try and make it a totally pure plain unchanging area.
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:54, archived)
# Give it a small delay as opposed to none.
It seems to work for me.

..and that doesn't look too bad at all to me.
(I helped save b3ta! FoldsFive, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:01, archived)
# just blur the fuck out of the background
using whatever motion blur filter you can find (relatively easy)

and either blur the fast-moving parts of the bird using smear of whatever (harder to get right, unless the animation is fast - then you can get away with a shitload of lousy blur)

and/or fade the previous frames i.e. transpose the last frame at 50% transparency or so on top of the new frame (easy to do but it doesn't always work)

edit: and as other people here already noted, you need to specify a frame-rate if you want the animation to go faster: most browsers default to a really slow rate.

(I helped save b3ta! but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all foreskin of the apocalypse, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:01, archived)
# many thanks...


...for all the advice.


I increased the frame speed to 4/100s sec - it now looks better in some browsers, although in AOL it still looks like a bottle of cack.



(Agnes McShyte can't be bothered to delete all her posts, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:14, archived)
# just get something not shit
like firefox
(I helped save b3ta! but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all foreskin of the apocalypse, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:14, archived)
# yay!
wow, aol still has their own browser?
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:15, archived)
# there's browsers other than aol?
aol is the internet! how can these things work!!?!

:)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:19, archived)
# woo yays!
(I helped save b3ta! McBadger COW, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:28, archived)
# I just blur everything!
(I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:37, archived)
# I tend to blur the background a bit
I've only made one or two mind....
(I helped save b3ta! Jsysco is mostly a lurker, mostly, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 0:42, archived)