Avatars...

[skip2mylou]

hi everyone,
i recently decided that my picture avatar is well not as ALIVE as i would prefer, so ive decided to make a new one. the thing is, i have seen many people create their own avatars using their own pictures or movies. so my question is:
how can i produce my own MOVING avatar with my own pictures or movies?

thanks and happy posting.

[Conquest10]

Imageready

[SquirrelDip]

One of the better ones (from what I hear) is Ulead GIF Animator, but there are many...

Go to http://www.download.com and do a search for GIF ANIMATOR and you'll find many...

[reboot]

Paintshop Pro's Animation Shop.

[skip2mylou]

cool thanks

[BJ_M]

Paintshop Pro's Animation Shop.

yep - works great

[glockjs]

when i tried the ulead GIF Ani it made the files, what i thought anyways, way to big

[Shadow57]

I found a really cool program called Animated Spider Killer.

It works great.







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[reboot]

Now all you need to do is make the background transparent

[BJ_M]

like this

[Shadow57]

I'm not that advanced yet!

[BJ_M]

[Shadow57]

Too many spiders!
Does anybody have any Raid?

I'm using Corel Photopaint.

I'm trying to figure out how to make the background transparent.

It might take a while!

[skip2mylou]

cool thanks, im having the same problem, the outputs are too big on ULEAD. so im basically in duck poo, until there is a way out. basically im making like a 2 second avatar, hopefully around 75-80 pixels and 6 kb. but by the looks of it, it looks like quite a hard task. ah well.

[Guest]

cut out some frames

[BJ_M]

dont know how to make background transparent in corel -- but i do in animation shop ..

[BJ_M]

animation shop also has a real good optimizer to really pack an anim. gif

[Shadow57]

dont know how to make background transparent in corel -- but i do in animation shop ..

I figured out how to make the background transparent, but I
can't save/export it like that yet. It always merges together.

We have GIF Construction Set for animation, but I'm just
learning how to use that.

We have Photopaint books and manuals here so maybe I'll
have to RTFM.

[Shadow57]

Well, something went wrong.

What a mess.

[skip2mylou]

does the animation shop come with the standard paint shop pro, or is it another program by paint shop. because i got the trial version of paint shop and i am so confused on how to do things,it has so many buttons, and i feel intimidated
please help. thanks

[BJ_M]

animation shop comes with the full package of paint shop pro -- it is another program though ...

[reboot]

Animation shop trial
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Products/Display&pid=1047024390003

[skip2mylou]

animation shop comes with the full package of paint shop pro -- it is another program though ...

o ok so can i download it off the same site, or where?

[BJ_M]

oh yea - i forgot corel bought paintshop pro and animation shop ..


well i hope they dont ruin it like they did with other programs ..

[skip2mylou]

ok thanks guys really appreciate all the help. BTW, thanks reboot for providing a link to download Animation Shop, appreciate.

ok so i now have the tool now im gonna look for some guides, please feel free to post links to any guides, thanks.

[BJ_M]

load gifs

make animation

save

[skip2mylou]

you know wat, i just figured it is THAT easy, this program is amazing, but i am still facing the same problem of the outputs being too big despite me setting the output to LOW, is there some way to compress it?

[BJ_M]

hit

SHIFT + Z

[BJ_M]

start off with compressing the hell out of the source files also seems to help ..

do that in paintshop pro

[skip2mylou]

question 1: while in animation shop when do i hit SHIFT+Z?

question 2: if my source file is an .mpg, how do i compress it in paintshop pro? is there a certain mpeg compressor tool that i can download?