Teaching the ways of Pixel Art [Lesson 3: Tips and tricks]

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Hey, could someone please compress my new Avatar for me?
( I don't know how to just yet) :oops:
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The reason why these animations are so large is that you're duplicating frames to make them longer, not actually changing the frame length. Also, one optimisation is to make pixels that don't change from one frame to the next transparent, which your editors don't seem to be doing and are encoding the entire frame each time.
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I wish I had some thing to change the slide time legnth UNFREEZ doesn't do that. :(
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Animation Shop can do that. I use it for all my animated gif needs :).
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Microsoft has a simple gif animation tool...
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(no buying :no: ) if it's free :yes:
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it is for free...but its not as good as animation shop or some others.
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yeah but its not free
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what are you talking about...its free
go to microsoft.com and search for GIFanimator
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Can you buy animation shop at any store? (like Best Buy or Walmart) Or do you have to order it from somewhere?
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Madskillz wrote:what are you talking about...its free
go to microsoft.com and search for GIFanimator
odd I though it was part of Paint Shop Pro, do you absolutely need PSP on your comp to run animation shop?
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I couldn't seem to find the gif anamator and the one I found didn't work :(
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I pulled an all-nighter last night, and got sorta bored, so I did a bunch of pixel art (this sorta gets the topic a little bit more back on topic):

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they look pretty good. what are they intended for?
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thecheat wrote:they look pretty good. what are they intended for?
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