beginers guide to - Makein gifs/animations

[DBloke]

Darkprinnys simple sprite gif tutorial
Yes its a simple one


For this you will need
Paint
Mircosoft gif animator
A spare minuet
A sprite sheet (google is the key but Im providein one for practice)

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Step one
Open your sprite sheet in paint
Open another paint
and open the other programs

Change the back ground to a color not on the sprite (greens a good one)

Get the first part of the animation and highlight it (dont need to be exact just keep it as close as possible)

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Paste it into the empty paint window

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Stretchso theres room
Copy all and paste into gif animator
Now with the sprite sheet I gave you you can just flip it (saves time)
and paste it to gif animator

Get the next frame

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Paste it into paint and click the bit surrounded in red and line up his foot so its over the other
Then click the bit above (the rest of the background should become green)
Get rid of any of the bits remainin
Copy paste to gif animator
Flip the image
paste into gif animator

Now in gif animator

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Color code
Green is for your copy paste
Red is for movein the frame up and down
Blue is the order there displayed
Yellow is for previewin

Arrange the images so they look in the correct order (preview if unsure)
Now click on "animation"
Then "looping" followed by "repeat forever"
Then image
Click on the two squares on top of the one square (it highlights all the frames)
Right I have color coded the next bit

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Red is for how long each frame is (7 is good)
Put the green bit onto "restore background"
Now in the blue box click the "transparency" box (it should auto get rip of all the green bit)

Preview
If good save

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End result

 

[ROB64]

which is easier to use?
Gimp or MS GIF animator?

 

[Dal]

I has a question.....How do you get Mircosoft GIF Animator?

 

[DBloke]

which is easier to use?
Gimp or MS GIF animator?

MGA is mostly something used to paste frames in
Easy to use
GIMP is a editin tool as well
Not as easy but still easy

I has a question.....How do you get Mircosoft GIF Animator?

2 secunds in google
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/13212

 

[Dal]

Well....here's my first gif:

I did what you told me to do, but it's still big and green....

 

[DBloke]

You missed a part out

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Red is for how long each frame is (7 is good)
Put the green bit onto "restore background"
Now in the blue box click the "transparency" box (it should auto get rip of all the green bit)

But I reconend that you dont have the back ground green (Due to luigis green cousutme) try red

You will alos need to change the sequance of the images to make it look cleaner

 

[King Wiired]

Good job man, helpful.

 

[wiilike]

okay so, manred just pm'ed me a picture of my sig. i tried copy and pasting it but it didn't work. what do i do to add the sig to my... sig!!! (pleez )

 

[DBloke]

okay so, manred just pm'ed me a picture of my sig. i tried copy and pasting it but it didn't work. what do i do to add the sig to my... sig!!! (pleez )

First you post the question in a topic relivent to sigs
Secound dont copy paste it into every topic

 

[surfinrach90]

Great stuff Prinny!

I was going to be looking for one of these soon =]

 

[DBloke]

I might just write a intire topic about how to use Micro soft gif animater

But I have yet to use the "options" tab

 

[iOwnage]

Very helpful

I'll make one soon, just not now.

 

[Dal]

Ahah! Did it! Thank ya DP! Here's Mario on Crack:

 

[DBloke]

Ahah! Did it! Thank ya DP! Here's Mario on Crack:

You need to make sure that you clicked on the icon with three squares on it
Then do the transparancy

 

[Dal]

*sigh*.....I'll get it right someday.

EDIT: Is this good enough?