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Posted on 11/08/06 00:22:20 AM |
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Wayne
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Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Hello everyone I am new to this forum and today I bought Steves book, third edition. My I say that I find the book very informative, superbly illustrated and very hard to put down. I particularly like the part on how to create new eye balls and the tutorial on how to create stubble, so simple yet very effective. I am now going around and trying out these tutorials on loads of my pictures, the eyeballs is a truly amazing affect, I have even tried to animate them it looks great…well spooky! I want to have ago at creating animated gifs from scratch, some I have seen are great fun. I have seen a great one on the disc that came with the book, it is the animated gif of a guy, its called “dancin-man-wearing-glasses” in the maiden folder. Where do you start when you need to create something like this? Would I start with my original image then make a selection of the character and delete the background so the character is on a transparent one? then would you select different body parts then new layer via cut or copy? I just can’t seem to get my head around it so any help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading Wayne p.s. great site as well as book   |
Posted on 11/08/06 3:33:51 PM |
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tank172
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Hi Wayne, I'm not familiar at all with animating GIF's; however, there was a Friday Challenge dedicated to them. While many created wonderful animations, some were having trouble. There is a bit of help here. http://www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com/cgi-bin/simpleforum_pro.cgi?fid=06&topic_id=1143796871 |
Posted on 11/08/06 3:35:49 PM |
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tank172
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Also here, http://www.maidenart.co.uk |
Posted on 11/08/06 4:01:39 PM |
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David Asch
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Yes, it might be worth dropping Maiden an email from her site. She knows her stuff when it comes to animated GIFs. _________________ If you hold on to the past, sooner or later you'll lose your grip. |
Posted on 11/08/06 6:29:14 PM |
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Wayne
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Thanks for the help folks I have been having another play this afternoon, I think I am slowly getting there but it is very hard to figure out. I will go and have a look at the links you sent me. Thanks Wayne |
Posted on 11/08/06 8:25:24 PM |
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paul 2005
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Funny how there was uproar when she left but after she posted once more then slipped away again not another word was uttered. |
Posted on 13/08/06 05:09:23 AM |
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Wayne
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Lol, I have just managed to finish my very first animated gif, the gif an my Avatar is me in my body building days, lol Wayne |
Posted on 13/08/06 1:13:40 PM |
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Glen
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Hi Wayne, nice one for your first go - a comment though, unless you were bodybuilding in the film 'Jacobs Ladder' or you really wanted to get a headache I would suggest that you could set the timings a little longer in your animation frames so your head isn't bobbing around quite so much, try it and preview in your browser to see the result. _________________ most of the lack of sunshine in our lives is caused by us standing in our own shadow |
Posted on 13/08/06 10:20:35 PM |
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Wayne
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
Hi Glen I have deleted the original psd file now, this was just a mess about really, I will have to do a new one shortly. I can see what you mean with the movement though, it is a little fast; it is giving me a head ache here, lol I love the ones on the cdrom, the cliff Richard ones are well good…great fun but hard to figure out Wayne |
Posted on 13/08/06 10:37:25 PM |
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David Asch
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Re: Creating animated gifs-New forum user
You can still edit the GIF and alter the speed. Open it in Image Ready and change the timings. _________________ It must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |