Animation File Formats

• GIF Animation Studio (Web Studio Series)

  By Richard Koman O'Reilly Paperback (184 pages) Product Description: GIF animation is bringing the Web to life -- without plug-ins, Java programming, or expensive authoring tools. This book details the major GIF animation programs, profiles work by leading designers (including John Hersey, Razorfish, Henrik Drescher, and Erik Josowitz), and documents advanced animation techniques. A CD-ROM includes freeware and shareware authoring programs, demo versions of commercial software, and the actual animation files described in the book. List Price: $39.95 Lowest New Price: $42.40 Lowest Used Price: $0.02 (As of 19:23 Pacific 10 Oct 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• The Gif Animator's Guide

  By Sandy Eddy Schnyder MIS-Press Paperback (322 pages) Product Description: With easy step-by-step instructions for desktop applications including Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop, this book will teach you how to create and edit GIF89a animations to enhance your Web site. Whether you are a beginner or experienced Web developer, it will answer your questions about creating and animating GIFs. The GIF Animator's Guide is designed both to be easy to use and to provide all the important information about creating good-looking graphics and animations using a variety of popular programs -- freeware, shareware, and commercial -- for both Windows and Mac computers. The book includes valuable information about animation, computer graphics, and GIF standards so that you can easily create animations for your Web page. You'll also learn how to optimize animations by using the 216-color palette, planning for transparency, offsetting images, and setting time delay. The CD bundled with The GIF Animator's Guide includes Microsoft GIF Animator, Paint Shop Pro, GIF Construction Set, GIFBuilder, Ulead GIF Animator, and save-disabled versions of Photoshop 4 and Illustrator 7. It also includes a large gallery of unique and copyright-free GIF animations that you can plug into your own Web pages. List Price: $39.95 Lowest New Price: $19.36 Lowest Used Price: $0.94 Usually ships in 1 to 2 months (As of 19:23 Pacific 10 Oct 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

• Anim-FX
  Create Flash intros, Flash banners, and text effects with Flash templates from Anim-FX for your web site - fast and easy.
  
  
• Artful GIF Animator
  Create from scratch, import from AVI, edit and optimize your animated GIF images to develop animations for web sites. Drag and drop JPEG, BMP, GIF, ICO and even AVI files into the program and then edit and preview frames on the fly - while you are editing a frame, it animates the resulting picture. Tune up the individual position and edit the color palette for each frame, optimize animated GIFs with five different color reduction methods.
  
  
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 [OLD VERSION]

  Macromedia Released: 2003-09-15 CD-ROM (Mac) Macintosh/Windows 2000 Tool for creating effective, rich content across desktops and devices Jumpstart projects with templates & components, and take advantage of the online resource library Add interactivity with powerful scripting Product Description: Allows designers and developers to integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences that deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, e-learning, and application user interfaces. List Price: $499.00 (As of 04:46 Pacific 11 Oct 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• SWiSH Max2: Flash Creation Software

  CrystalGraphics, Inc. CD-ROM (PC) Windows Vista/Windows 2000 Creates Stunning Flash Animations and Websites with Ease! Unique drawing tools make adding shapes a breeze! 250 built-in effects to choose from! Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, VISTA (Not Mac compatible) Product Description: SWiSHmax2 is the latest generation of the famous and award-winning SWiSH software line of easy-to-use Flash editors. It has everything you need to create stunning, fully interactive Flash animations. Whether you are creating Flash effects from scratch, or editing existing SWiSH Flash files (such as. SWI files included with some PowerPlugs: Web Templates), use SWiSHmax2 to swiftly and easily generate stylish Flash effects. SWiSHmax2 includes intuitive scripting, drawing and editing tools as well as hundreds of built-in effects that can be applied to text, images, graphics, and sounds. You can also author and distribute your own effects! Import/ Export tools allow versatility in the use and output of SWiSHmax2 files. SWiSHmax2 has a simple yet powerful menu interface that includes useful tools such as the ability to add effects to multiple objects at once, a timeline editor and page tabs that help you manage dynamic content, easy to use input forms, a JavaScript-like scripting language and advanced compression features that help you keep your SWiSH (. SWF) files small. Plus, it even allows you to create and distribute your own custom Flash effects! *CrystalGraphics is pleased to announce that it is only USA distributor of SWiSHmax2 and the only company in the world offering the SWiSHmax2 product on CD-ROM, for your convenience and security. List Price: $149.00 Lowest New Price: $134.10 (As of 04:46 Pacific 11 Oct 2008 More Info) Buy It Now