Originally posted by Halo
Totally cool, Eskimo. Any links or tips on sources where the rest of us could learn how to do that?
The program I used is called "GIF Construction Set"
It’s a shareware program and is a free download, but they want $20 if you use anything made with it on the Internet. It is a VERY easy program to use. (I teach computers at an elementary school and plan on having my second graders use this program.) In spite of being easy to use, it can do MUCH more than the basics.
My GIF was all hand drawn in MS Paint, about 50 images (and then the 10 insignias repeated a dozen times to create a “pause” on each insignia). I could have drawn only the 10 insignias, however, and let the program draw the in-between images (I wanted to do a bit more than a simple fade/dissolve effect though.). It basically can take the images that you give it, make two of them translucent and overlap the first with the second image becoming more and more opaque. You can give it a huge string of images, and ask it to apply one of a dozen effects, and control several variables such as color, speed, etc.
The program can also let you resize animated GIFs and set transparent colors (so that they look good on web pages with backgrounds). GIF Construction Set has a compression tool so that your GIF isn’t bigger (byte-wise) than it needs to be. I think my GIF was over 70,000 bytes before it was compressed. The AH BB limit is 30,000 bytes, so compression can help quite a bit!
It’s free to download and play with, after you try it out I bet you’ll be as glad as I was to pay for it!
GIF Construction Set (
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gcsdemo.html )
eskimo
