Animated Avatars

Post by **Matt** » Thu May 06, 2004 11:19 am

How do you guys make animated avatars from your video clips?

I assume they are animated GIFs.

Someone at work was asking about it for some reason and thought "I know just the place to ask" ...

Truggy, you seem clued up on this sort of thing ?

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Fri May 07, 2004 10:22 am

Matt, you can do this in Corel PhotoPAINT, and probably photoshop as well.

Import an AVI file re-sample it, then export the "movie" as a GIF. Alternatively, you can import the frames into Corel RAVE and save as a flash animation!

Post by **Matt** » Fri May 07, 2004 12:35 pm

Cheers. Someone also pointed out you can use Paintshop Pro Animation studio as that allows you to import AVI and save as GIF.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Fri May 07, 2004 12:42 pm

I use a banner maker, rheborn makes mine cause i dont want the programs on my comp, tho he could probably tell u. Like mine? hehe

DaveP · Post by **DaveP** » Fri May 07, 2004 2:48 pm

Premier also lets U export as an animated gif

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sat May 08, 2004 6:57 am

Yes, almost all mine are exported from Premiere Pro. A few from Macromedia Flash MX.

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Sat May 08, 2004 4:24 pm

I found a flash maker that rheborn and he told me where to get it, but i have forgot, PM him he's got a really good one....

film fanatic · Post by **film fanatic** » Sat May 08, 2004 5:04 pm

Yeah, Flash MX 2004

Jass Films · Post by **Jass Films** » Sun May 09, 2004 11:14 am

mine from Premiere aswell

ssj3gohan · Post by **ssj3gohan** » Sun May 09, 2004 2:33 pm

if you wanna make animated .GIF's really cheap (idano how much it costs and i'm too lazy to google) use Ulead GIF animator (preferably 4.0 because 5.0 has some major screwups and we-want-to-make-it-user-friendly-so-kick-out-the-good-stuff).
I use it for me anigifs, i make the anigif videos in cg infinity (also ulead)/3dsmax

Rheborn · Post by **Rheborn** » Wed May 12, 2004 1:12 am

Bannershop Maker 5.0 by any typical creator. My bannershop which i found out was Selteco. Selteco bannership maker 5.0 can be found Here

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Wed May 12, 2004 10:56 pm

How do you condence them to be less than 5k?

lethelgirth87 · Post by **lethelgirth87** » Thu May 13, 2004 3:49 am

yeah, good question....

ssj3gohan · Post by **ssj3gohan** » Thu May 13, 2004 1:49 pm

uhm I really don't know what size you are talking of; and how many seconds/frames. I've got a 256-color non-destructive compressed anigif of 38 frames 96x96 pixels that is 66189 bytes (64 KB). Compressed to 32-color (maximum that looks well) it's 22019 bytes (20 KB). So if you want to make a anigif with about these dimensions (I presume you want to make a gif that fits), make one that can handle low-color (very few individual colors needed, preferably 32 or less), and has max. 25 frames. That should look good and won't be much larger than 5 kb. Oh, and you can host your own pic, with no real size limit (but for our 56k lovers, 30 kb is the limit).

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Fri May 14, 2004 12:54 am

"The avatar image file size must be less than 6 KB"

Rheborn · Post by **Rheborn** » Fri May 14, 2004 2:54 am

hmm i just make my image 150x 150 doesnt seem to be doing any harm. the smaller you make it the lower the kb this would be like 13 kb but i shrunk it to 150x150 so its like 7 ish