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How To Make Web Animations With A Photo Background

Chapter 1: Selecting Graphics

The first thing that I need to is pick out (or create) some graphics for my project.

Let's start with the GIF animations. The main requirement here is that they have a transparent background, so when (later) placed over the photographic background, we will actually be able to see the photograph.

Below are a couple of cartoon animations that I got from my Art Explosion 800,000 Clip Art package (it includes a relatively small number of web animations on one of the CDs). If you want a wide choice, I'd suggest you take a look at Clip Art Inc. or AnimationFactory. - or alternatively, you could create your own animations using something like GIF Animation Studio.

buglegs.gif
113X114 pixels		   snorkel3.gif
59X162 pixels
 

Next I need a photographic background. Here's the one that I've decided to use. (You could prepare your own backgrounds with a digital camera or a scanner, or you may find suitable backgrounds in many clip art packages).

earthrise.jpg
300X225 pixels



Related Books:
  • GIF Animation Studio (Web Studio Series)
     
    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.

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  • The Gif Animator's Guide
     
    The Gif Animator s Guide
         		  
    By Sandy Eddy Schnyder

    MIS-Press
    Paperback (322 pages)

    Book 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.

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Related Software:
  • 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.

Related Web Sites:
  • Clip Art Inc.
    This site has a large collection of royalty-free clip art and animations, including GIFs.

  • Clipart.com
    Our subscription-based service provides access to more than 2.6 million clipart images, photos, fonts, and sounds.



  
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