Although, I don’t know why I resorted to helping the “bunny” dominate. It must be that brainwashing mechanism! (:AGY)
Cheers,
Paul
Here justin see if this is better.
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I have not made an animation ever… is it hard Paul? Do you recommend any program? Image ready?
If you just want to play with basic animation, try using GIMP and build a few animated gif’s. I’ve used similar tools in the past. My all-time favorite tool is an antique that was distributed with Frontpage 98. It was likely the ONLY usable piece of software on that disk. The product was Image Composer and it came with a nifty gif animator that I used extensively to build animated ascii art from 1998 - 2002 until I lost interest.
I don’t know if it was distributed widely or not; I got it in my MSDN subscription.
I use Gimp exclusively along with Animator 9 , a nifty gif animation creator. I am having problems with my script.fu for film timeline, keeps crashing and haven’t found a fix. Also, with this problem is the fact that even using layers, I can’t get Gimp to create the animation. I therefore use Animator 9 to do the stiching.
Cheers,
Paul
Much better, thanks ;D
OK, thanks guys.
It can be hard depending on what you use to create it. Otherwise, it’s not bad at all. I use Gimp to create my pictures, although for all intents and purposes, I don’t do a wonderful job when throwing something in the forum as it’s a 10 minute job. I use Animator 9 to stich them together. Gimp hasn’t been working well for me and I have yet to figure out why. What I do is simply create a base, save, open the base, use a sprite, or other creation, move it , save, move , save until I feel I have enough to make an animation. I then use Animator 9 to open the files, which must be jpg or bmp and use the add feature in the stich selection. You can veiw each pic you add, add more than once, determine quality, size etc…when done, you have the controls to rewind, loop, speed, etc…and then click make and it creates the animated gif. Gimp is supposed to do this with layers and other methods but won’t and keeps crashing on me. Otherwise it would be much easier and better quality of animated gif. If you look at the avatars, the smiley that pulls his face up and dissappears and says Comodo under it, is one I made from scratch in Gimp, move by move and then Anim 9. It seems though it loses a lot of quality using Anim 9 and this is why I miss the Gimp working correctly. All in all, it’s just like a cartoon.
Cheers,
Paul
Justin, try this as well…
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Even better! Thanks once again 
Paul,
I quickly found the value of layers after losing a few hundred frames because of carelessness. Layers and frequent progressive saves. I just drew it like a flip book and chained them together with the MS gif animator. It was time consuming, but likely no more so than any other tool. Animation is a slow process no matter which method is used. But it’s really cool when you’re done.
I’ve also done animation in K&R C, Turbo Pascal and Delphi. It wasn’t much more work than the animation tool and it was easier to correct frames when building them programatically. That line of fun started in 1984. We were running UNIX on a VME computer (68010) for tallying election returns in the 1984 general elections. We had a whopping 4MB RAM and a Maxtor 1140 (140MB) disk with Unify. Was good times. Plenty of horsepower for moving ASCII frames. And I could store the entire project in Unify. ;D Since the returns were entered in batches, I had nothing better to do while waiting for each precinct to deliver counts.
But… for building real animation, coding the frames is tough. Much easier to build wireframe models and then manipulate those. For that, I used 3D Studio and rendered the solids last.
I was working on animated 3-ds but since my computer has burnt up I don’t have anything with decent resources. HP pavil with 324 ram, XP homeless, 8 cd set recover, junk. This is not my model PC, lol. I can’t wait to get my pc built and get back into some serious animation, not just Gifs which this HP will barely handle, lol. Although the specs were laughable with 4 mb ram, etc…at the time that was pretty darn good. You must have been in awe at the power at that time. 
We were just getting into writing down code for our name to be processed on an old Apple. A page and a half of code to display our name and address. Of course this was all the school could afford at the time. Although the older systems were not as “user friendly to some” , I still found them a bit more fascinating for whatever reason. More control perhaps? Don’t know.
Cheers,
Paul
Just testing… ;D
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I think that Paul’s owl Should be named sCOMODOwL™
Or maybe…
COMOwlDO™
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( O O )
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For a rabbit, Scomodo has a rather… erm… unusual website. Hmm? :
LOL! Haven’t seen that one before! ;D
It doesn’t look like a bunny… ??? I think that our SCOMODO™ will kick his a**… ;D
In a fight? Maybe. On looks? Erm… No. The Scomodo penguin is… in a different league… dimension to the rabbit. The penguin would win. It’s so cute. ;D
Go KAIL GO!!
Cheers,
Paul
It sounds like youre in love… ;D
Na. Judge for yourself…
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Cute. And the way it’s about to swat the MS butterfly. Cute. Love… no. 8)