gif movies

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-12-13 10:31am

OK, here's the deal. I can't try it now, as I'm on my laptop, BUT:
I want to create an animated gif movie from DVD capture. Just a short one, for an LJ icon.
I have Image ready and InterVideo DVD. Has anyone tried making movies out of these and do they flow OK?

I'll post results if I get any...

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-12-14 04:16pm

Gee, thanks for your input guys

Anyway, My first attempt:
Looks shit when reduced any further, but I wanted to see what I can do:

320K
BTW, if you don't recognise the show, you have my pity...

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-12-14 04:18pm

Paintball warriors?

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-12-14 04:24pm

I have no idea how to do that stuff, so I didn't think I should say anything. But go you for being awesome! Or something like that.

How's that?

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2004-12-14 04:45pm

InnerBrat wrote:Gee, thanks for your input guys

Anyway, My first attempt:
Looks shit when reduced any further, but I wanted to see what I can do:

320K
BTW, if you don't recognise the show, you have my pity...

Maybe it's just Déja Vu, but that looks vaguely familiar for some reason. What show is that from?

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-12-14 04:47pm

observer_20000 wrote:Maybe it's just Déja Vu, but that looks vaguely familiar for some reason. What show is that from?

Spaced. The best show in the history of the world.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-12-14 05:12pm

InnerBrat wrote:
observer_20000 wrote:Maybe it's just Déja Vu, but that looks vaguely familiar for some reason. What show is that from?
Spaced. The best show in the history of the world.

i still need to buy the dvd set for that ...

i'll get round to it eventually.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-12-14 09:44pm

I wonder if it would be possible to make an animated .gif of everyones favorite gunney... Perhaps a simple one with just his mouth moving...that could be used as an avatar...

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-12-14 11:26pm

Girls Bravo - Naru Punch 2.0

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-12-15 04:39am

So how did you make those, Shinova? I went through frame by frame, capturing alternate frames, then layered them with each shot lasting 0.1 seconds and cropped and resized the whole thing together.

But I really like the last one you did. It's a lot smoother than anything I've managed.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-12-15 05:30am

First one was the hardest to make, despite its simple appearance. What I probably should've done is use something like FRAPS to vid-capture it, but I didn't know that so I ended up beating the comp up with Neko-Arc (that character) once, print-screen, then beating another again, then print-screen. Then crop and trim each individually then put them together. Not bad for what is basically a hack job.

Second is a bunch of frame-caps with Virtual Dub. Nothing too special.

So is the third.

And the fourth, except that the first and last frames I created by hand with Photoshop. Just a black BG and text.

Everything I put together with Adobe ImageReady, except for the Electroshock massage, which I did in Corel PhotoPaint. I like ImageReady better.

Anime episodes come in like two or three frames, meaning there are two or three frames of the same picture before moving on to the next, so I deleted those extra frames accordingly.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-12-15 09:21am

Virtual Dub is the media software?

I don't think mine's actually that bad, except I appear to have missed a frame somewhere. I'll now need to focus on doing something that can be resized to 100x100 and 40k...