GIF animator in next XDP?

Here's hoping Xara has a decent GIF animation tool in the upcoming XDP. This old special-effect is getting a makeover, what with all the confusion about Flash and HTML5/CSS3 motion graphics.

Check this link, and you'll see what I'm talking about --

http://cinemagraphs.com/

Also, here's an article about the value of subtle motion to catch attention in a world where even the most arresting still image often isn't noticed by viewers -- the concept is simple and could be of great benefit to those of you developing commercial websites.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2420119,00.asp

Would really like to make animated GIFs right in XDP. Not exactly rocket science -- there are a lot of free programs around that do this. It's not new stuff. See --

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...f-animator.htm

Gosh, I sincerely hope not..
256 colour dithered ugliness and more wiggly moving things on websites - no thanks..

+1 sledger. GIF animation does not need any more attention or effort.

Yes the GIF is very old, but that mentioned http://cinemagraphs.com/ is quite impressive way of using it.

Rather it says to me that a good cooker can cook well from and by anything

Web design people -- check out http://www.elencanto.com/web/ele/el_encanto.jsp ... a luxury hotel in Santa Barbara ... incorporating a moving graphic with still images. No reason you couldn't do this with WD, right?

I can't see any connection to animated GIF or Xara Web Designer in that linked site, Jon?
(BTW: This is the graphics chat forum, maybe this should have been posted in the web chat forum?)

What would really be nice is a new animated format that utilized 24bit color and real transparency. The APNG format looked like it was gaining some traction, but seems to have fallen by the wayside recently.

-- Ben

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Originally Posted by jon404

Here's hoping Xara has a decent GIF animation tool in the upcoming XDP. This old special-effect is getting a makeover, what with all the confusion about Flash and HTML5/CSS3 motion graphics.

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Very interesting Jon. If you import the .gifs from the PCMag article into XDP, you can see how they're constructed. This could be useful.

If XDP could take a sequence of images and extract just the pixels that are different from one to the next to create a new frame for each, it could easily create animated gifs like these. Doubt it will make into the next version due out soon, but I would still welcome it in a future upgrade...

Gif is trandy again, I created two campaigns for mobile in last month, all in Xara.
Xara is awesome tool.