Thread: how do you make animations?

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?

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

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.

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)

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...

Originally Posted by 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...

nah ill not go for that, its pretty nifty, but thanks anyway.

ive downloaded pivot, its quite good.

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

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