Avatar Request(s)

[Cheat]

Hi guys, I want 2 animated GIF avatars, first one from this video, from 3:03 to 3:15.

Second one would be

one, from 0:38 to 0:46.

 

If it's possible I'd like a 2px white stroke on them.

 

[UNRATED69]

 

 

http://a.imageshack.us/img199/7505/strongeri.gif

 

 

 

 

http://a.imageshack.us/img683/1700/runthistown.gif

 

[Narcis_speed6]

photoshop just crashed when i was in the middle of it

 

1px

 

http://i37.tinypic.com/2m5mrya.gif

 

 

2px

 

http://i33.tinypic.com/2d0l6qv.gif

 

 

1px

 

http://i33.tinypic.com/314flut.gif

 

 

2px

 

http://i38.tinypic.com/2je7prr.gif

 

 

if you reupload them they will looks faster to you

[Wolf68k]

Unrated yours are fast as hell.

Narcis yours slow as hell. Which might be normal for me if I was on IE or Chrome, but I'm not, I use Firefox.

 

After looking at examples of both in Jasc Animation Shop

Unrated: 1st 2 frames have a delay of 0, frame 3's delay is 3, frame 4's delay is 4, after that it's a random collection of frames were some have 3 and others are 4

Narcis: strangely in the one I sampled the delay was 0 which had it going too fast.

 

Now I know Narcis is using Photoshop which too me is too much work and limited to 500 frames, which bugs the hell out of me and one of the reason I avoid it for these types of work. I'm little curious to know how you get to the point you import it to Photoshop

Unrated I have no idea what method you're using but something it wrong with it.

[Cheat]

Wow too fast, too slow

Oh and if yall can time them right I'd like a 1px stroke instead.

[UNRATED69]

I'm also using photoshop to do this. I used mediaconverter.org to turn the videos into mpegs, and used VirtualDub to change them into GIFs.

 

I thought the first one was OK, but I f*cked up on the second one when I was deleting the frames, so thats why it was going too fast in the beginning. By the time I realized, it was too late.

 

I tried again, and this one looks better to me.

 

 

 

http://a.imageshack.us/img245/1700/runthistown.gif

 

[Narcis_speed6]

 

I'm little curious to know how you get to the point you import it to Photoshop

i usually import the file in virtual dub, set the start/end, crop it and then i save it as .avi or .gif

the other changes like stroke, speed and resolution are set using photoshop.

 

install the latest quick time then enter photoshop

in photoshop press import --> video frames to layers, if one of the formats is not listed (like gif)

just tipe *.* at the file name see pic, then all formats should be displayed.

 

 

[Cheat]

@Unrated still looks over-fast to me...

[Wolf68k]

Ok so you both are using VirtualDub cool. Now the problem is I don't want to jack the topic by telling how you can use it to make it an animated GIF with a border.

I'll cliff note it; sorry Cheat

 

Go here and downloaded the Border Control plugin http://www.thedeemon.com/VirtualDubFilters/detailed.html (only works with 32-bit version of VD)

Put it in the plugins folder for VD.

Filters: Border Control

Black Region fills in the color, never bothered with the others. Color is RGB values (note it sucks you have to use the up/down arrows instead of typing to make it faster. White=255/255/255 Black=0/0/0

File->Export->Animated GIF

Edited August 10, 2010 by Wolf68k