General Discussion

this should be more in the picture board section / session zero, just letting you know...I don't know either :(

You can make then using photoshop. Not really sure how to do it in anything else but photoshop CS2

There is a program called Extoon. I used it 1 or 2 times to make gifs...it does those black and white gifs. I tryed to find it again but im not finding it =(

Adobe Photoshop/Image ready both have the ability to make animated gif's. I don't know how to do it, but those are the programs to use.

well i use photoshop cs2

you make layers

put frame 1 on layer 1 frame 2 on layer 2 etc...

the go to window and click on animations

then press new frame till you get as many frame as you need

the click on frame 1 and unclick all the frames (the eye on the layers tab) untill its just the frame you want

do that with all of them

then when your done go to file save for web then save it as a gif

maby later when i have time i make a gif on how to do it lol

or you can use flash 8 much easyer but much less qualty

I usualy make my animations in Animation Shop Pro (its ok for the simple things, doesnt have an extreme amount of options), Imageready and photoshop probably make better animations (I havent tried them yet for anis though)

well i use photoshop cs2

you make layers

put frame 1 on layer 1 frame 2 on layer 2 etc...

the go to window and click on animations

then press new frame till you get as many frame as you need

the click on frame 1 and unclick all the frames (the eye on the layers tab) untill its just the frame you want

do that with all of them

then when your done go to file save for web then save it as a gif

maby later when i have time i make a gif on how to do it lol

or you can use flash 8 much easyer but much less qualty

yeah thats pretty close to what i do but i do it in PS and imageready and i switch back and forth if need be with the lil "switch to photoshop" button

i like to make simple animations from movies. like this :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/mtlsharpnel/voltron2dance03.gif

what i do is use a program called ScreenSaver...yeah i know..a common name..but its just a program where when i press PrtSc button it saves a fullscreen jpeg in a folder... and i would save a screen move the the next 2 frames and save a pic, and repeat [this could take ages!! recommend you use the lowest screen resolution possible to lower file size while still having movie at 100% mode] then i highlight all the layers and drag em into ps ...if you have more than 1GB of RAM youll be fine...if you dont ...dont do this! haha get one screen shot and drag the next screen onto it, then close it...then drag the next one on to the last and close....basically the first screencap will be your project window after i get ALL the layers in one project i crop out the edges of what isnt the video then i open it in ImageReady then at the bottom of the screen youll see a bunch of frames....and 1 frame of the current layer...what you are gonna do is have all of your layers visible...then one by one unclick the eye button, and make a new frame..yeah it gets tedious...and i cant seem to make a Photoshop Action for it... after i get all the frames i play and see if it plays right....then when im happy ill optimize it and save

anyways i probably shouldnt have even typed all that out because its in the help file of Imageready and Photoshop...druf