how do you make animations?

[slash112]

i would like to make animations, but i have no idea how, i heard you can save them as .GIF files, is that true? what software would you maybe need? and how would you use it? also, i just would like to know this aswell, its a bit off topic, but not too much, how do you make a transparent background on paint.net software?

[Ynot]

any decent NL video editor should offer gif exports the difficult bit is getting the best quality / filesize mix and that's down to experience, to be honest

[guitarboy]

It depends on what type of animations you want to make. Pivot- Stick figure animator. Asiimator.net- Ascii animations. Those are some I use. You may want to google exactly what you want to animate, like if you want to make cartoon like animation or more realistic, smooth, professional animations. As far as I know, you can save certain animations as GIF. Like the AIM icons though, I'm not sure about longer things.

[slash112]

i just want to make little animations, like for example what you could put in an avatar (just an example, i probably wont do that)

[Ynot]

also, I think the Gimp can export image layers to gif frames http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/ not sure how practical that is but anyway...

[slash112]

also, I think the Gimp can export image layers to gif frames http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/ not sure how practical that is but anyway... nah ill not go for that, its pretty nifty, but thanks anyway. ive downloaded pivot, its quite good.

[slash112]

im just testing to see if im able to post an animation, to see if it works, i just did this quickly.

[ninja9578]

Professional animation is done in Maya, Blender, or 3dSMax

[Sornaensis]

Professional animation is done in Maya, Blender, or 3dSMax Don't foget Lightwave 3D, and VUE. :F

[Marvo]

Solid Works too.

[Grod]

flash