Making Animated GIFs

K.T.Tran wrote:I had a feeling you were going to say that BMW :hehe:

Yea, Arnel makes amazing Gifs :applaud:

I would like to see other people's Gifs and to see if anyone can make Gifs like Arnel :mrgreen:

One thing is to make gifs from existing videos, but to incorporate your own design into the mix requires some creativity and ingenuity.

And Arnel seems to have both. :thumbsup:

now that we've gotten that outta the way, this thread might as well as be locked. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
One thing is to make gifs from existing videos, but to incorporate your own design into the mix requires some creativity and ingenuity.

And Arnel seems to have both. :thumbsup:

fully agreed. Arnel has the best.
with my gif's, i give credit to @bmwracer for his creativity and excellent choices for my nana gif's. thanks. :applaud: :applaud:

qilver wrote:fully agreed. Arnel has the best.
with my gif's, i give credit to @bmwracer for his creativity and excellent choices for my nana gif's. thanks. :applaud: :applaud:

Thanks, Q.

When you have Nana-chan as the subject, it's pretty easy to make a great gif. :D

if theres no prize or gift (which im hoping for) but this thread would probably end up being rubbish and i agree with everyone picking arnel. :mrgreen:

how do you make your gifs, ive tried so many free programs "avi to gif" and so on, but they either end up as 10 mb or just **** up :shakehead:

I have to make smaller gif's

Shounen Terrorist wrote:how do you make your gifs, ive tried so many free programs "avi to gif" and so on, but they either end up as 10 mb or just **** up :shakehead:

You can't make an entire avi an animate gif.. It's too big as you found out... You've gotta pick a small portion of the avi, then drop out a number of frames to reduce the file size further, but not so many as to make the animation choppy... Takes some experimentation.

SubaruWRX wrote:I have to make smaller gif's

Smaller as in size??? I really need to do that.....but that means leaving out a lot of what I want in in my gifs :puppydog:

K.T.Tran wrote:Smaller as in size??? I really need to do that.....but that means leaving out a lot of what I want in in my gifs :puppydog:

Reduce your image size, bud.

And cut out more frames. :)

I have one that's like 1.67MB and it's only like 150x147

SubaruWRX wrote:I have one that's like 1.67MB and it's only like 150x147

Time to drop more frames. ;)

bmwracer wrote:
Reduce your image size, bud.

And cut out more frames. :)

The size on my current Gif I think is a good size, its just the # of frames and I can't reduce them.....unless I want it to look a little choppy. I'm tryign to keep my Gifs looking as smooth and as close as possible to how Aya looks in her movie or PVs :mrgreen: Had to take out the other Gif in my Sig and replace it with a pic so I don't lag Dial-up users all that much :mrgreen: *I know the pain and suffering you feel waiting for the page to load up*

K.T.Tran wrote:The size on my current Gif I think is a good size

That's the problem: it's too big... You have to trade frames for size or vice versa.

*I know the pain and suffering you feel waiting for the page to load up*

Ehh, don't worry about me. No one else gives a rat's ass.

Knock yerself out. :D

Small portion is good. I take screen caps like from my Aya gif i currently have up, the caps are taken over a period of 8 seconds or so from her Hello PV. Well 8 seconds seems small to me :hehe:


Well....I looked at other people's Gifs and I Like Makky's Gif, the dancing girl in the sig. Thought its cool :applaud: :victory:

MixxDreamer wrote:if theres no prize or gift (which im hoping for) but this thread would probably end up being rubbish and i agree with everyone picking arnel. :mrgreen:

And henceforth, this thread will be merged with the original GIF thread.

Yeah, from what I see of Arnel's sig and ava, his GIFs do look awesome. I think I'll invest in a GIF animator (when I have the budget) coz the freeware I'm using now does not allow me to crop or resize my GIF....and a whole lotta other stuff. All it does is animate the frames :shamefulcry:

btw I use Windows Movie Maker to edit my mpeg file (saved to wmv format), then Easy converter for wmv -> avi conversion (freeware only allows for 5 min). After that I use gr44 animator for avi -> gif. The result is not as sharp as I want it to be but it's okay for now since I get to see an animated Tomoya-san everytime I post (which is one of the reasons I like to post :hehe: ).

Everyone keeps on recommending imageready (PS)....is there any other excellent gif animator in the market (affordable, I hope)? How much does it cost?

cghu007 wrote:Yeah, from what I see of Arnel's sig and ava, his GIFs do look awesome. I think I'll invest in a GIF animator (when I have the budget) coz the freeware I'm using now does not allow me to crop or resize my GIF....and a whole lotta other stuff. All it does is animate the frames :shamefulcry:

Yes, arnel98 is THE BEST in the forum when it comes to animated GIFs. Compliments to him for my sig. :metaldevil:

I'm computer illiterate so chances are that I wouldn't be able to really learn much if he were to teach me how to do it. In fact, I don't understand what others are teaching users who inquire about it. Too much terminology for me. ---Yeah, I"m a "dinosaur". :hehe: :sweat:

CHanged to some Alizee :)

:applaud: :love_eyes: :hot: :yippee:

SubaruWRX wrote:CHanged to some Alizee :)

:applaud: :love_eyes: :hot: :yippee:

i think with your added signature pix, we can all learn a new dance move together.... :hehe: :rofl: