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# The question bugging me this hour

Is how can someone make 223 frames fit in under a 32K file? What is this sorcery?
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:39, archived)
# Which gif is that?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:40, archived)
# Who are we getting gifs for?
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:41, archived)
# Santa.
It is nearly his birthday!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:41, archived)
# I am not getting anything for that bastard rapist
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:42, archived)
# did you get him an easter egg
(I helped save b3ta! boff FL OZ, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:46, archived)
# 2nd on the popular page
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:41, archived)
# Fucking hell!
That is witchcraft!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:42, archived)
# bloody hell
that must've taken a while
(I helped save b3ta! Walrus Man Think hippy thoughts, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:48, archived)
# To being teh pope
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:40, archived)
# popes!
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:42, archived)
# can't be teh popes, not Nazi enough
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:43, archived)
# tiny, limited use of colours, not that much actually changing each frame
if it was an animation of Nicolas Cage punching a woman in a bear suit (nicolas is the one in the bear suit) a hundred times from a hundred angles then it might have had a big file size
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:41, archived)
# Then why is this over 300K?
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:44, archived)
# gradients, flashy lines, colour wipe
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:44, archived)
# You put to much flashy stuff in it
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:45, archived)
# :(
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:46, archived)
# also
diagonal lines don't GIFerize very well
(MrChimp previously Monsieur, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 18:50, archived)
# small colour palette
no dithering, dont add salt, solid colours compress betterer, gradients are a no no and always lift your dhalias in the autumn
(I helped save b3ta! boff FL OZ, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:51, archived)
#
This is 27 frames, 20 K
If I'd made it 223 frames long it would be 168K.

(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:54, archived)
# There is a lot more movement each frame though,
your dots in the middle are constantly changing :)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:58, archived)
# Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
*plots*
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:59, archived)
# Got it down to 11 for you too ;)


EDIT: Your paddles change as do the numbers too :D
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 18:01, archived)
# Arses.
I guess it's down to the pixels.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 18:04, archived)
# Oh yeah, this too.
Try copy and pasting the dots from one frame into all the others so they don't change.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 18:00, archived)
# Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 18:02, archived)
# It's physically larger which accounts for part of it.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:58, archived)
# Ehhhhh, depends.
When you're doing a gif in photoshop it generally depends on the number of layers used/how much of the screen actually physically changes.

So if you've just got 1 black background layer with the dotted line down the middle, and some layers of the paddles in 6 or so positions down the side, then you can make new frames using the existing layers in different configurations, saving loads of space.







These are just over 10K each and they had about 100-150 frames in and a fair amount of layers. It's all being economical with what you use.
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 18:17, archived)
# i should very much like to see this animation
(I helped save b3ta! Walrus Man Think hippy thoughts, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:57, archived)
# Horace
Romanes Eunt Domas?

(I helped save b3ta! boff FL OZ, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 17:46, archived)
# Do you think Nicholas Cage
really believes all this conspiracy theory rubbish his movies all seem to be about? Or do you think he just knows how to make a quick buck cashing in on the fears of obsessed nerds and cranks?
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 20:19, archived)