[Vesuvius]

does anyone know of websites where I can find animated .gif desktop wallpapers, large sized (minimum 800 x 600, preferably larger) pictures made to be infinitley looped?

if not, would any members be interested in giving this a go just as a challenging project? I suck at animation and I know that asking for something that you yourself do not make a concerted obvious effort to do can seem insulting or entitled, I hope that people are more intrigued by the possibility than they are annoyed by me.
some ideas could be clouds floating by, geometric shapes that rotate into other forms (squares into triangles into hexagons) kind of like a kaleidoscope, driving on a road, a turbulent sea image, clockwork mechanisms, the inside of the computer with blinking lights / sparking circuits / flickering strobes...
if you can't help me sorry for wasting your time and thanks for reading this.

[faustgfx]

so you want static images that are animated?

[Vesuvius]

it doesn't have to be, but I thought that that sort of thing would be the best as a background, for the sake of not feeling nauseous or disoriented by it.
but yeah, I just wanted to know if you've seen that sort of thing before or where it might be. I know it exists because (when I used to work in a computer store) we had a few from a now defunct manufacturer that had a default desktop with moving cogs..

[Redlemons]

I did this once last year sometime. I made an animated .gif of a coveyor belt stamping out spoons (I think it was spoons) and it looped pretty well. But it played at 1 or 2fps and was a real disappointment. I had big plans for that desktop (I had ever, and never have) seen a moving desktop like that.

So basically, if you can pull this off, nice work

EDIT: It played so slowly because my computer was/is below average and the .gif files were huge - the machine just couldn't handle it like I thought it would.

[ October 09, 2001: Message edited by: Redlemons ]

[a_sh]

what is required to have animated gifs as background?
some active desktop plugin?
if yes, where can it be found?
(i know, i'm to lazy to go look for myself )