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[gothic_elvis]

Guys I seriously need help making animations. Does anyone know how or where to find a good tut on how? I mean, look at this:



It's so choppy! You see such lovely gifs that just flow right like the movie but I just cant get mine like that! I'm so lost and I'm getting really frustrated. :p

-cries-

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[frontyardninja.livejournal.com]

It's all in the screencaps. The more caps, the smoother the animation. I use VLC at 0.67 speed for mine:





I wrote up a really long tutorial (http://community.livejournal.com/flying_bedpan/33009.html#cutid3) a while back -- if you're at all interested.

[gothic-elvis.livejournal.com]

How many caps did you use for those? I think I had about 14 with the last one duplicated twice. And plus, I didn't make my caps so I don't know how many frames it's actually getting; do you have to literally frame every second as it goes by - yourself - so it looks alright?

Sorry for the twenty questions! haha

[frontyardninja.livejournal.com]

The first one is 24, second is 82.

Yeah, pretty much. I set up hot keys, so I can just hold down C at that half speed and it'll cap it as long as I want. It's crazy helpful, though.

[gothic-elvis.livejournal.com]

Wow! A lot of caps haha.

Okay and you set that speed - .67 - as the speed for the caps in PS?

I'm sure I can find the rest of the stuff I have questions about at your tut so I won't ask anymore xD

[frontyardninja.livejournal.com]

lol, it's okay.

I set the speed in VLC -- just make it go a bit slower, so they kind of sound like demons. With that many caps the Image Ready speed is like no delay or maybe 0.1 seconds.

[gothic-elvis.livejournal.com]

Ah well capping it myself would make it easier too then I suppose cause then I could just cap only the bits I want into a seperate folder...Sorry, musing to self. xD

Anyways! Thanks so much for all your help! Now I just need to dl those big ass LOTR movies -sigh- xD

[getyourguns.livejournal.com]

IMO the caps way takes longer and you can mess it up so much easier than the way I said below. However, you can edit them easier such as contrast/colour/etc. since you're working with a graphics program rather than an animation program.

[contrition.livejournal.com]

Trying to learn to make .gifs almost drove me crazy. -_- I made really shitty ones on windows movie maker before I got my macbook and now I don't have that so I just resort to .gifsoup. There was a site that let you crop off the tag so they were pretty good, but now I can't find it. >:o

[gothic-elvis.livejournal.com]

Ohh well that would be a lot easier, indeed! Let me know if you think of the site, if you would. :D

[contrition.livejournal.com]

I will! I'm going to do some digging and see if I can refind it because it made the process so much quicker. :D

[getyourguns.livejournal.com]

What program are you using there?

I do it the easy way but it takes more programs than what some other people do. Find VirtualDub (free), Adobe Fireworks (you can get it without a key but you'll have to look elsewhere besides Adobe's site), and Jasc Animation Shop (same thing as Fireworks). You use VDub to cabture the scene, Fireworks to crop/resize, and JAS to edit.

And you get this:
(http://tinypic.com)

[gothic-elvis.livejournal.com]

Photoshop CS4

Yeah that's a bit too many programs for me, methinks. xD I know it can be easy in PS, I just haven't found the right method yet. :p

Lovely animation tho! RDJ -licks- hehe

[getyourguns.livejournal.com]

Yeah I really have no clue how to do it the caps way but it seems way more complicated and frustrating than how I do it. That animation right there took me like, 2 seconds. Just bam, bam, bam.

[gothic-elvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've actually made quite a few animations from videos and that always seemed easiest for me but then people said working with caps is, but I may switch back to doing vid animations.

[batmanvoice.livejournal.com]

Back when I had a PC, I made this tutorial (http://batmanvoice.livejournal.com/27360.html#cutid1) for gif making. I've got a mac now so I can't test it myself, but I've been told that the info in my tutorial is still good for PCs.

[gothic-elvis.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I will definitely have to give that a try, as well. :D