Art: Yomi's Elixir Topic... Avatar Critics Corner!

**Shiinigami** · November 24th, 2002, 03:11 AM

Well, someone might know. I hope...

**Cavalier** · November 24th, 2002, 03:27 AM

yea someone will ^^;;

**Xellos** · November 24th, 2002, 02:12 PM

Melfice or Miguel probablyw ill

**Cavalier** · November 25th, 2002, 05:07 AM

well miguel hasnt o_o

**melfice** · November 26th, 2002, 08:19 AM

As a recomendation.. do not use animated avs!... They are just too big.

Oh well, now more serious.

I see the size of the letters somewhat big. besides that it uses a great ammount of frames to make the fading in-fading out. In that meaning, only 2 frames of fading are enough to make a good one (may be it is not that fluid, but uses less memory)

And if you make the frames use the minimal time possible, it even can be seen fluid. (For example, only 8/100 or 10/100 of second...) If you play them at that speed, you can have the illusion that it is a fluid animation.

Also you should try to avoid dithering (or at least, random dithering). It makes the diferences between frames too excesive.

Animated Gif only saves the difference between frames, not the full frame, so, if you keep those diferences as small as possible, the size of the animated gif decreases.

16 colors is not the only way to decrease the size of an animated gif. Much of the time, the memory you save reducing the colours is wasted because of the dithering, producing the oposite result.

And some pictures are just too complex to be compressed in gif in a reasonable size, but i think that this is not the case. Complex backgrounds kills the compresion.

So, the points are:

-Keep diferences between frames to the minimal It helps to this using a little size of the font.
-Try to avoid dithering. Adds random noise that increases the diferences between frames.
-Little amount of colours is not the only way to reduce a gif's size.

Most of mine were always of 64 or even 128 colours, but had minimal diferences between frames! (eye blinking...) And i did them in 80x80 pixels.

And! as a payment for this av. optimizing classes, you have to tell me links to good pictures like that! [img]wink.gif[/img]

Cool av Shini! ... it has something familiar for me... Maybe that it is because Kosuke Fujishima is the character designer in Sakura Taisen? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 26, 2002 04:22 AM: Message edited by: melfice ]</font>