Sijun Forums :: View topic - What's the first WEB GIF animation you ever did?

DrawingBook · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 12:03 pm

I saw someone post thier animation of a two headed man splitting himself apart with a chainsaw. It reminded me of my first animated gif which I made when I first started doing web design at the age of 17 back in 1995. The gif animation was for a Non Profit Organization called Synergistic Planning. They sold books of information about PRE DISASTER Planning so you'll always be in good shape through a natural disaster. ANYHOW here's the small animation, I used gif construction set and Microsoft Paint on my 486 DX2 66Mhz 8Mb ram machine!.

Don't forget to post your first animation and give me feedback about mine! Rock On!
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Francis · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 12:09 pm

It could be a little slower. But I wonder if that has anything to do with cpu speeds from 5 years ago...?

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kurisu · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 12:42 pm

I like the tornado gif

Maybe add a cow floating in there somewhere... :P

Here's my second animated gif (I thought I'd spare you the first which was just the word 'warning' color cycled. Btw, I did many .avi/.mov/etc animations before this) this was for the 'a very fast pig' thread from awhile ago...

For information about some member animator's preferred software (2D/3D) click here.

Hey Joachim! Rather than posting a reply to your "which 2D anim software do you use" in the *** BANNER EXCHANGE *** thread, I thought I'd post it here... (and thanks for the compliment, too

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To visit a resource site mentioned in that thread for cheap/good 2D animation packages, click here. Scroll down to the 'resources' section for some programs.

I use ImageReady 2.0 (still). I think I'm going to move on from this, because it lags a lot when I've got many layers/frames... so every function delays significantly. It still has many good points - especially for Photoshop users - 'cause it's the same interface (mostly) plus a few anim gadgets/controls. I think I will look into TVPaint or some of the others listed soon, though... (Flash is cool - but I don't like the idea of the user having to download a software package just to view it - if they don't have it already - and I know you're thinkin' "Well EVERYBODY has Flash!" but I like to cater to the lowest common denominator... so everybody can see it!

-k

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Drorak · member Member # Joined: 20 Apr 2000 Posts: 169

That pig thread was cool Kurisu, too bad most of the pics are not linked anymore. BTW that second pig animation you made is even better than this one.

kurisu · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 1:10 pm

Thanks, Drorak (<-- any significance to the name?). I thought this little piggy (went to market) was funny with just 2 frames to him

That thread was really fun. There have been a few that have gotten close to the energy of it... Synj is a like spirit with wacky animations. Check it out, Beavis.

Hey DrawingBook - this is a cool thread... can I post other gif's here, as well? Or do you prefer to keep this as people's first? (I know I already broke that wind, but I figured at least this one had substance!)

-k (irk out!)

synj · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 1:29 pm

There's mine, I think. I didn't start too long ago so I'm half-cheating probably.

-synj www.synj.net

g:tech · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 2:13 pm

Oh boy. Here's my first submitted material to this site. It was the first animation I EVER did, and also the first on the web

It was for a technical graphics class at Purdue University back in 97. Don't laugh

Hope this pic post works!!!!

synj · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 2:22 pm

Cool stuff, g:tech! I enjoy the camera angles on a couple of those scenes alot.

-synj

DarkVVulf · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 2:24 pm

This was done way back when I didn't even have inet access and had to use a cheap sprite animation program I found on a BBS.

Arg, not used to HTML disabled forums.

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g:tech · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 2:25 pm

Thanks, Synj!

I have a lot of respect for you and your style, so it's cool to get positive feedback from you! WOOHOO!!

Animation was such a great invention....

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kos.mandis · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 4:28 pm

Double the original size, part of an old animation... I'm surprised I found it around!

DrawingBook · Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 4:59 pm

Hey Everyone Thanks for posting to this thread, It was awesome seeing everyones 1st gif animations for the web! If you have more please add!

Kuriusu,
I would like to keep it "members only". We can always start another thread of course

Perhaps we can have a thread: Here's what I did, Here's what I'm doing. Oldest to the Newest

Either way, very cool 1st's people I was delighted!

Thanks!
-Line

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dines · Posted: Fri May 12, 2000 3:04 pm

here is mine

just did it today..

dines.

4s · Posted: Sat May 13, 2000 9:46 am

couldn't resist. this is my first animated gif. they were characters from a comic strip which i gave up on a while ago>

pete · Posted: Sat May 13, 2000 10:39 am

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Morganic · Posted: Sat May 13, 2000 6:19 pm

dines: PIKA! cool gif ;P
pete: LOL