by FeatheredSeclude » December 15th, 2013, 12:31 am
Well... I can easily give an answer, but it'll take a bit.
For starters, you have to draw each individual frame. This one here is 34 frames long, but I only drew 16 of them. I did some looping. And you'll have to have a program that can put the frames together. I use Adobe ImageReady 7 (2002) just cuz it's what I have. It's also possible you can Window Movie Maker, but you'll have to manually set the length of each frame to like 0.07, 0.17, 0,21 fps (frames-per-second).
It took me about a week to get this one done.
Program wise, I use Adobe PS7 and ImageReady7. To actually put your gif/animation together in IR7, you have to put all of your frames as .jpg, or .png, in their private folder. Open up a tab in IR7, "File," top left. Look for import, it should have a sub-tab, and look for import folder as frames. Click that, and find the folder your frames are in. When opened, you'll then save if it's opend right, your image names should be like "001" for frame 1, etc. Then you;'ll click the File tab again, look for "save optimized as" and click that. Then your gif will be saved.
You might have some options when saving it. Have "images only" check, and have it's format be .gif, not .html, or .tiff. The overal quality of the gif will down some, but it doesn't harm the image too badly. Though that depends sre how powerful your computer is how it'll save. I'm using an extremely low-end one, so it dropped some of the quality.
Not sure I've helped, or confused ya. Hope I helped. XD
I wish you luck if you're planning on animation. You also may be able to find tutorials on YouTube on hoe to make a .gif.