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Help & Guidance => Site/Forum Help => Topic started by: Ingredient on March 25, 2012, 02:19:14 pm

Title: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Ingredient on March 25, 2012, 02:19:14 pm

Hai, im wanting my avatar to be animated but im wondering how to do that. I thought about making one in movie maker then save as a watchable movie clip. Its not a .MSWMM file which is what movie maker saves files as. I dont know what file type it is. Anyway i tried uploading it and used the url but nothing happened. My avatar wasnt there and nothing happened. So i changed it back.

How?

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Kyugima on March 25, 2012, 02:29:19 pm

Use a GIF.

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Ingredient on March 25, 2012, 11:37:19 pm

How do i do that?

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Kyugima on March 26, 2012, 12:48:50 am

upload a gif image. Gimp allows you to make Gif images, and so does Photoshop. You just have to put the different parts of the image as different layers then save it as a Gif. There should be more explanation online, I'm not too sure of the exact details, half the time I just guess with Gimp XD

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: peaceyoyo101 on March 26, 2012, 12:50:22 am

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-movie-animated-gif-windows-movie-maker/ (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-movie-animated-gif-windows-movie-maker/)   try that if Kyugima doesn't describe enough

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: peaceyoyo101 on March 26, 2012, 01:14:54 am

I can make it, if you give me the pictures. (SORRY! Did not realize I double posted! Please forgive me.)

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Ingredient on March 26, 2012, 03:32:49 am

Thanks guys, very helpful information. One question though, with the GIMP one is there any particular size the image has to be. 513x513, 1000x300? Get what im saying here?

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Redlinelies on March 26, 2012, 03:53:35 am

Not sure about if there's any limitations in gimp for making a gif, but if I remember correctly, the forums standard size is 100x100 pixels for the avatars, which means the image will become that size even if you make it twice the size, at least heightwise.

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Ingredient on March 26, 2012, 05:38:37 am

Ok then, thanks Red.

So do the images just have to be layered on top of each other? No transparency between them? Im also unsure on how to save it, i dunno what options to choose.

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: peaceyoyo101 on March 26, 2012, 08:00:55 pm

I'm pretty sure you need to save it as a .GIF

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Kyugima on March 27, 2012, 12:57:07 am

They need to be in layers. And when you save, choose to save it as a Gif, choose save as animation. You may need to fiddle with the time between frames of course.

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Ingredient on March 28, 2012, 12:57:54 am

Ok, heres what happens when i try save as a Gif.

Ok here is the first box of options i get...
(http://i40BannedImageSite/3026l50.png)

If i choose the option and ONLY the option "Save as Animation" i get this...
(http://i44BannedImageSite/359jpmb.png)
Of course i click the Crop button to fix it.

Afterwards this window pops up. Im unsure what i should choose here.
(http://i41BannedImageSite/iwjkoi.png)

Ive fiddled around with it but when i click it my internet browser opens up. It shows one image of the animation but doesnt animate. Its just frozen with one pic.
(http://i41BannedImageSite/iwjkoi.png)

Do you think you can help me with this?

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: peaceyoyo101 on March 28, 2012, 01:34:25 am

Well save it as an animation AND convert to indexed. And that I know of so far you can just ignore the second one AKA just press save.

Title: Re: Avatar Animation?
Post by: Ingredient on March 28, 2012, 02:19:00 am

I tried that but still nothing is working how i wanted it.