K.T.Tran wrote:

I had a feeling you were going to say that BMW Yea, Arnel makes amazing Gifs I would like to see other people's Gifs and to see if anyone can make Gifs like Arnel

One thing is to make gifs from existing videos, but to incorporate your own design into the mix requires some creativity and ingenuity.

And Arnel seems to have both.

now that we've gotten that outta the way, this thread might as well as be locked.
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bmwracer wrote:

One thing is to make gifs from existing videos, but to incorporate your own design into the mix requires some creativity and ingenuity. And Arnel seems to have both.

fully agreed. Arnel has the best.
with my gif's, i give credit to @bmwracer for his creativity and excellent choices for my nana gif's. thanks.

qilver wrote:

fully agreed. Arnel has the best. with my gif's, i give credit to @bmwracer for his creativity and excellent choices for my nana gif's. thanks.

Thanks, Q.

When you have Nana-chan as the subject, it's pretty easy to make a great gif.

if theres no prize or gift (which im hoping for) but this thread would probably end up being rubbish and i agree with everyone picking arnel.
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how do you make your gifs, ive tried so many free programs "avi to gif" and so on, but they either end up as 10 mb or just **** up

I have to make smaller gif's

Shounen Terrorist wrote:

how do you make your gifs, ive tried so many free programs "avi to gif" and so on, but they either end up as 10 mb or just **** up

You can't make an entire avi an animate gif.. It's too big as you found out... You've gotta pick a small portion of the avi, then drop out a number of frames to reduce the file size further, but not so many as to make the animation choppy... Takes some experimentation.

SubaruWRX wrote:

I have to make smaller gif's

Smaller as in size??? I really need to do that.....but that means leaving out a lot of what I want in in my gifs
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K.T.Tran wrote:

Smaller as in size??? I really need to do that.....but that means leaving out a lot of what I want in in my gifs

Reduce your image size, bud.

And cut out more frames.

I have one that's like 1.67MB and it's only like 150x147

SubaruWRX wrote:

I have one that's like 1.67MB and it's only like 150x147

Time to drop more frames.

bmwracer wrote:

Reduce your image size, bud. And cut out more frames.

The size on my current Gif I think is a good size, its just the # of frames and I can't reduce them.....unless I want it to look a little choppy. I'm tryign to keep my Gifs looking as smooth and as close as possible to how Aya looks in her movie or PVs Had to take out the other Gif in my Sig and replace it with a pic so I don't lag Dial-up users all that much *I know the pain and suffering you feel waiting for the page to load up*
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K.T.Tran wrote:

The size on my current Gif I think is a good size

That's the problem: it's too big... You have to trade frames for size or vice versa.

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*I know the pain and suffering you feel waiting for the page to load up*

Ehh, don't worry about me. No one else gives a rat's ass.

Knock yerself out.

Small portion is good. I take screen caps like from my Aya gif i currently have up, the caps are taken over a period of 8 seconds or so from her Hello PV. Well 8 seconds seems small to me


Well....I looked at other people's Gifs and I Like Makky's Gif, the dancing girl in the sig. Thought its cool
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MixxDreamer wrote:

if theres no prize or gift (which im hoping for) but this thread would probably end up being rubbish and i agree with everyone picking arnel.

And henceforth, this thread will be merged with the original GIF thread.
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Yeah, from what I see of Arnel's sig and ava, his GIFs do look awesome. I think I'll invest in a GIF animator (when I have the budget) coz the freeware I'm using now does not allow me to crop or resize my GIF....and a whole lotta other stuff. All it does is animate the frames

btw I use Windows Movie Maker to edit my mpeg file (saved to wmv format), then Easy converter for wmv -> avi conversion (freeware only allows for 5 min). After that I use gr44 animator for avi -> gif. The result is not as sharp as I want it to be but it's okay for now since I get to see an animated Tomoya-san everytime I post (which is one of the reasons I like to post ).

Everyone keeps on recommending imageready (PS)....is there any other excellent gif animator in the market (affordable, I hope)? How much does it cost?

cghu007 wrote:

Yeah, from what I see of Arnel's sig and ava, his GIFs do look awesome. I think I'll invest in a GIF animator (when I have the budget) coz the freeware I'm using now does not allow me to crop or resize my GIF....and a whole lotta other stuff. All it does is animate the frames

Yes, arnel98 is THE BEST in the forum when it comes to animated GIFs. Compliments to him for my sig.

I'm computer illiterate so chances are that I wouldn't be able to really learn much if he were to teach me how to do it. In fact, I don't understand what others are teaching users who inquire about it. Too much terminology for me. ---Yeah, I"m a "dinosaur".
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CHanged to some Alizee

SubaruWRX wrote:

CHanged to some Alizee

i think with your added signature pix, we can all learn a new dance move together....