October 2014 Tips and Tricks - Big GIFs, Tiny Animations

[Rik]

Thanks for your kind comments, Gary, Larry and stygg.

Gary: I thought I would have a go at animating your HUGE ping pong ball - that appears to be made of rubber!
Sorry about the image quality, but, that wasn't under my control.

Hope you enjoy the animation, though.

[Gare]

Rik, in this case, I would have used dithering at the cost of a few K to break up the banding.

I needed to step outside of Xara to use ordered (Pattern) dithering here; this type of dithering should be on our "Dear Xara" list for the next build, because as you can see, it handles banding better than diffusion (which is called error diffusion because it moves pixel colors frame by frame to offset the disparity between the original color and the replaced color)





-g

[Rik]

I was pleased with the motion.
But, I think I should have saved the images, other than jpg.

With my original animation, I created the whole image in Xara. Then exported the individual frames as .png.
Then created my gif animation.

[Crow Haven]

Thanks so much, Gare and Stygg! Your help, really everyone's efforts here, really inspires. These gif animations are lots of fun (Gare I like the new lightning strike avatar)!
I tried to create a hummingbird flying by this time...

[csehz]

Maya that bird looks really real, probably the well found rhythm has big influence too, nice one and so the whole is only 22Kb

[stygg2003]

That is so real Maya, very impressive, well done

Stygg

[Gare]

I was pleased with the motion.
But, I think I should have saved the images, other than jpg.

With my original animation, I created the whole image in Xara. Then exported the individual frames as .png.
Then created my gif animation.

Nothing wrong, nothing to be defensive for, Rik.

If anything, I'm to blame for letting this thread go O/T. But I'm happy people are seeing the usefulness of the GIF file format and becoming resourceful about keeping the saved file size down.

-g

[Crow Haven]

csehz and stygg -- I'm glad you like the little hummingbird -- thanks!

[wizard509]

Just so you know, i liked it too Maya even though I didn't post before.

[Crow Haven]

Thanks, Larry, I appreciate that!