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

Post by **benryves** » Wed 18 May, 2005 11:27 pm

Homestar wrote:does anyone know the color code for this fourm?

Here's the semi-finished product.

I've masked it so it's now transparent - and I suggest you find a better GIF animator. I'm amazed that you can generate a 15x15 animation with so few colours and frames that comes out to 70K!

and thecheat's:

I don't know what GIF animation tool you chaps are using, but it's creating seriously odd GIFs.

Technoman · Post by **Technoman** » Thu 19 May, 2005 1:06 am

I went .Gif Crazy, check this out!

Unfortunately, unFREEz doesn't seem to have any sort of compression! So the gif files created are huge! But being the cheap *#(^&$ that I am. I just can't go out and buy any gif software especially no more then I would use it.

Post by **benryves** » Thu 19 May, 2005 1:21 am

Are these GIF editors that people use unable to set the frame rate properly? I see a lot of GIFs where "longer" frames are made by loads of identical ones.

Have a quickly optimised GIF:

Technoman · Post by **Technoman** » Thu 19 May, 2005 1:38 am

unFREEz only lets you set a timer between slides but it's universal and not per slide! Which I hate! But the program may just be copying in extra slides. I set it to 10 cs and then I just added extra slides for a longer time period.
Thanks for the optomization BTW

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 19 May, 2005 1:56 am

benryves wrote:I've masked it so it's now transparent - and I suggest you find a better GIF animator. I'm amazed that you can generate a 15x15 animation with so few colours and frames that comes out to 70K!

Dammm 70k!

My avatar is 60k.

Post by **benryves** » Thu 19 May, 2005 2:00 am

27K

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 19 May, 2005 2:17 am

I knew you were evil.

you got some pixels dancing on you AC. I think you could shrink it some more.

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 19 May, 2005 10:42 am

Ben, your avatar is 235kb?

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Thu 19 May, 2005 12:26 pm

those seem to be quite large for that short of a time.... *goes and makes new avatar*

Post by **Patori** » Thu 19 May, 2005 1:22 pm

Yeah, thecheat, I agree

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 19 May, 2005 2:14 pm

thecheat wrote:those seem to be quite large for that short of a time.... *goes and makes new avatar*

Large?!? my avatar or the smilies? I did my best to make my avatar small..... *cries in shame*

*runs away*

j/k

Post by **Patori** » Thu 19 May, 2005 2:25 pm

Jim e wrote:
thecheat wrote:those seem to be quite large for that short of a time.... *goes and makes new avatar*
Large?!? my avatar or the smilies? I did my best to make my avatar small..... *cries in shame* *runs away*

j/k

I think he was refering to ben's...

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 19 May, 2005 2:48 pm

Did bens get deleted!?!

It wasn't that large was it. He has(had) the most original avatar of us all.

Post by **benryves** » Thu 19 May, 2005 3:11 pm

Jim e wrote:Did bens get deleted!?! It wasn't that large was it. He has(had) the most original avatar of us all.

Well, 250K is hardly large for a one-off download (having seen some in excess of a meg) but if people complain, I might as well get rid of it.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 19 May, 2005 3:31 pm

I still I liked it, It could probably be brought bellow 100k if you drop to 16 colors, use the 1st frame as a background and delete redundant data plus add a little lossy i think people wouldn't even notice the difference.