Calling all GIF animaters! Please help me!!!

[Meowth_Kitten]

Hey guys, I've just experienced the most wonderful moment of my art life! I just made my very first real animation. Yesterday, I bought an animation kit for beginners and was pretty much inspired to make that husky animation I've been imagining in my mind. Well guess what? I did! Except I've run into a problem. Here it is:

Being so excited, I downloaded the first free GIF animation program I found on the internet. I drew my animation, scanned it, and saved each piece on Adobe. Then I transfered them to the new animation program. The animation looks absolutely wonderful, especially for my first one. I admit, I was almost in tears when I watched my own hand drawn drawing come to life before my eyes. It is of a Siberian husky outline running. It took only eight steps, but looks great. My actual problem is, the GIF program I downloaded is a demo program and will not allow me to save my animation. As said above, I have them all seperately saved on the computer, but I can't save them all as an animation on that program. The program is called MagicViewer Demo Edition.

Does anyone here know of any free downloadable GIF animation programs I can download that will allow me to save my animation? I am afraid to add detail to the animation before I can even save it. Please help me out, it would be greatly appreciated!!!!

-Meowth_Kitten

[woz]

if you have adobe photoshop, then you'll probably have adobe imageready. that can save your gifs for you.

[Meowth_Kitten]

Yes, I do have Imageready and I've looked into that program... But as far as I know, there isn't any way to play the animation. Remember, this is an actual play/stop moving picture. If Imageready does have this ability, could someone tell me how to access it?[

[woz]

1) transfer your images to a separate folder.
2) in imageready, file -> import -> folder as frames. locate the folder you transferred your images to.
3) it will import the images as frames. to see this, make sure window -> animation is checked. also check optimize too.
4) in the optimize dialog, select gif.
5) file -> save optimized as... then select a destination for your file. then open it in any program able to view gif files (windows fax and picture viewer will do fine).

post if you have anymore problems.

[soggy_cardboard]

Hey, cool i was gonna ask this question.....

I dont have the above program...

Is there an alternate GIF-making program i can dl?

[Dragonfree]

There is Easy GIF animator... go here and I'm pretty sure you should be able to download a demo version. One you can save in.

[Meowth_Kitten]

Hey, thanks sooo much for the help! I couldn't get the Adobe Imageready program to work. I got to step 3 and couldn't figure it out from there. I couldn't find an animation option or an optimize option. But I am currently downloading the Easy GIF and I honestly think this is the program I've had before and was looking for, but couldn't remember its name. I don't even know where it came from because Nala98 found it and shared it with me. But thanks to all of you for the help. I will PM one of you if I have any more trouble. Is it possible to share animations here on TPM? I would really love to share my running husky and see what people think of my first one! Thanks again!

[Dragonfree]

Yes, animations are simple GIF files and can be attached to a post as you please. Glad I could help!

[Pants Master]

heh. the last time i really played with imageready was in august last summer.
I believe the mentioned 'optimize dialog' of step 4 is located in one of them boxes in the upper right. but im not much help and dont know why Im bothering to post ^^ Woz dude should answer that. I know I had a similar probelm right at the begining concerning something that needed to be set to gif format.
anywhos.. I hope you have some animation program up and going by now.

[Chris]

Originally posted by Meowth_Kitten
Is it possible to share animations here on TPM? I would really love to share my running husky and see what people think of my first one! Thanks again!

Providing the image fits with the uploading specifications, it's fine.

[soggy_cardboard]

Woo, i dl that "easy GIF" program, and behold its power:

<click me!)

thanks a lot!