program for animating and transperancy...
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Topic: program for animating and transperancy...
Posted By: cassiechihuahua
Subject: program for animating and transperancy...
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 8:25pm
Okay I just like pixelling as a hobby, I guess. I use MSpaint but I didn't know what to use for animation, really simple animations, but I ended up using MSgif animator. Well, that program sucks, unless I'm missing something. Then I used Iaza.com for transperancy, but sometimes it does weird stuff, too. basically here is a pixel I did, non-transperant, and transperant via Iaza.
  when I animate this with MSgif you might notice there are some extra orange dots that appear here and there...and also the muzzle colour switches between two different gray shades while the dog blinks. (more noticable on lighter background.), and also during midblink a patch of black is in the eye. (possibly i could've used white by accident there, though, maybe iaza isn't doing anything wrong, just MSgifanimator.)
basically I just wondering if anyone knows any simple, maybe free or cheap programs to animate with and not get this stuff...I did this back around dec/09 and I've been lurking this site since 07 and I decided to submit something but the programs i am using don't work out too well to make stuff look good.
colour count is probably way off, too, this was just a doodle I got to into and didn't focus on that much.
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Posted By: Pragz
Date Posted: 02 May 2010 at 1:00pm
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GIMP is a good, free program to make GIFs with. Plus it comes with some other features useful for making pixel art.
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 02 May 2010 at 4:08pm
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You can use the 'cheap bastard package' that I use: MSpaint to draw, Giffy to set transparencies, unFreeze to animate. All are free and simple to use. -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 02 May 2010 at 5:28pm
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I use gifsicle to assemble animations. It's command-line only, though, which scares some people off. I just find it's much easier to type 20 characters and hit return than spend as many minutes tediously importing each file into GIMP as a new layer and all the rest of it.
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 02 May 2010 at 6:05pm
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unFreeze is even simpler than that. It's a simple drag and drop interface, just highlight all the files and drop them into the program and viola, animation.
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 02 May 2010 at 6:22pm
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I actually find typing a few commands much quicker and less clumsy than a drag 'n' drop process. Also, unFreez is only an option if you use Windows.
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Posted By: NotlikeTheOther
Date Posted: 17 June 2010 at 12:56pm
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I used to have giffy downloaded. My computer crashed and now I can't get it to download again.. is Windows7 the problem?
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 18 June 2010 at 6:02am
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Someone should have a link to a working Giffy link. You can always use www.iaza.com in a pinch.
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Posted By: NotlikeTheOther
Date Posted: 18 June 2010 at 12:32pm
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Thanks Jalonso! iaza.com worked good enough!!
Project complete.
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