Teaching the ways of Pixel Art [Lesson 3: Tips and tricks]

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Fri 20 May, 2005 5:00 pm

Hey, could someone please compress my new Avatar for me?
( I don't know how to just yet)

Post by **benryves** » Fri 20 May, 2005 6:54 pm

51222b

The reason why these animations are so large is that you're duplicating frames to make them longer, not actually changing the frame length. Also, one optimisation is to make pixels that don't change from one frame to the next transparent, which your editors don't seem to be doing and are encoding the entire frame each time.

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Fri 20 May, 2005 7:00 pm

I wish I had some thing to change the slide time legnth UNFREEZ doesn't do that.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sun 22 May, 2005 4:43 am

Animation Shop can do that. I use it for all my animated gif needs

.

Madskillz · Post by **Madskillz** » Sun 22 May, 2005 3:48 pm

Microsoft has a simple gif animation tool...

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Sun 22 May, 2005 6:45 pm

(no buying

) if it's free

lloydkirk1989 · Post by **lloydkirk1989** » Sun 22 May, 2005 6:48 pm

it is for free...but its not as good as animation shop or some others.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sun 22 May, 2005 11:34 pm

yeah but its not free

Madskillz · Post by **Madskillz** » Mon 23 May, 2005 2:14 am

what are you talking about...its free
go to microsoft.com and search for GIFanimator

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Mon 23 May, 2005 12:14 pm

Can you buy animation shop at any store? (like Best Buy or Walmart) Or do you have to order it from somewhere?

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Mon 23 May, 2005 2:14 pm

Madskillz wrote:what are you talking about...its free
go to microsoft.com and search for GIFanimator

odd I though it was part of Paint Shop Pro, do you absolutely need PSP on your comp to run animation shop?

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Mon 23 May, 2005 2:43 pm

I couldn't seem to find the gif anamator and the one I found didn't work

Post by **DarkAuron** » Fri 27 May, 2005 10:34 pm

I pulled an all-nighter last night, and got sorta bored, so I did a bunch of pixel art (this sorta gets the topic a little bit more back on topic):

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Fri 27 May, 2005 11:44 pm

they look pretty good. what are they intended for?

koolmansam375 · Post by **koolmansam375** » Sat 28 May, 2005 2:32 am

thecheat wrote:they look pretty good. what are they intended for?

Somewhat of a quote from IRC

DarkAuron wrote:No i am not making an rpg XD. I was just really bored