Gifs and Animation
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Category: The Lounge
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Printed Date: 27 February 2026 at 2:18am
Topic: Gifs and Animation
Posted By: freesonwang
Subject: Gifs and Animation
Date Posted: 02 February 2009 at 11:39am
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Like other pixel artists (or maybe not, I don't know), I am a complete amateur. In fact, most of my pixel art is done on MS Paint while I'm talking with friends on the phone or waiting for movies/games to finish downloading. I made a lot of sprites, and the only way I know that they "work well" is that fact that the way I animate is to copy-paste-undo repeatedly a new sprite pose over an old one. Yes, very ghetto. So I was wondering, how do I make those little animated gif files that don't lose quality (last time I remember making a gif in 1998, the colors would become all messed up). I am using a Mac, btw, but I have Windows too. Cheers, and thanks in advance! |
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 02 February 2009 at 11:54am
Nothing wrong with MSpaint. (Cheap bastards of the world unite.  )Anyway, yeah, it does mess up with gifs. That's why you should get Giffy (it's free) and simply convert your files to gifs. -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: Evilagram
Date Posted: 02 February 2009 at 1:06pm
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I use png. For gifs, I typically string them together in photoshop or flash from a sheet. Tad expensive though. There are free programs out there that can do the same of course, like unfreez or something like that. |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 02 February 2009 at 2:19pm
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Download Unfreez. fast, simple and free. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Antiboton
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 9:46am
| I don't understand the idea of the topic but... I animate my MSPaint works copying and pasting the frames in Gif Movie Gear. I think the copy-paste step is the base of animated gifs. |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 09 February 2009 at 12:14pm
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the op was asking how do we create animated gifs w/o lossing the image quality in the process(wich i assume he means saving gifs in MS paint). and notice i said 'was'. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: DeProgrammer
Date Posted: 14 February 2009 at 8:15pm
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You could use my http://dpmm.110mb.com/CKinesis/kinanim.html - Kinesis Animator , too--it doesn't force your sprites into a specific palette when showing you the preview, and it's specifically designed for sprite sheets. It has a "Reload Sprite Sheet" button and an "Edit in MS Paint" button to make your life a little easier. :) (It's for Windows.) |
Posted By: Antiboton
Date Posted: 16 February 2009 at 9:10am
| I don't think any gif animator cause lost of quality. Their speciality are (off course) the gifs so they save the correct pallette without bad color compression. |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 16 February 2009 at 1:36pm
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what if you are making a gif from a .AVI file. the animator itself is not the one who steals the quality from the image, is the need to compress the image to a 255 palette. not to mention, diferent compresion system lead to diferent image quality results. but we already noticed the OP was refering to save GIFs in MSPaint ------------- I ate leel's babies |