Cool Animations
Introduction
The GIF Lab is the place to find out more about GIF animation, from cool
animations submitted by GIF Movie Gear users to history to tips&tricks to links.
The Lab will be growing over time, collecting new thoughts and ideas about GIF
animation. Check in periodically to keep in touch.
Cool Animations
The following cool animations were submitted by GIF Movie Gear users:
by [email protected]
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To submit your animation(s) to the collection (we reserve the right to choose what
is "cool" and what is not), please email the animation or its URL for multi-file
animations, to [email protected].
Tips & Tricks
Have you ever wondered how to get started with animation? Or how that ultra-cool
dissolve was created? Here's the place to learn:
NavWorks Free Tutorials - A collection of great tutorials on general graphics
techniques. For GIF animation stuff, check out the Web section!
Optimizing GIF Animations - How to squeeze your animations down to size.
Have you just come up with a neat animation trick that you would like
to share? Well, this is the place to share. Please email your ideas (with
URL's if applicable) to [email protected]. The above list will be
updated on a regular basis with the latest and greatest of animation
notions.
Story of GIF Animation
Why is GIF animation a good thing? It offers several advantages over other forms
of animation currently used on the Web:
1) It requires no programming
2) It requires no special browser plugins
3) It is reasonably small and compact
4) It is easy to build and maintain
A GIF animation is really nothing more than a GIF file with multiple images in it. All
that is needed for viewing is a browser that understand animated GIF, and at this
point in time they all do. To use a GIF animation, all you need to do is treat it like a
normal image and use the ![]()
tag. And voila: animation on your page!
The Graphics Interchange Formatsm (GIF) was developed by CompuServe
Incorporated in the late 1980's as a format for storing compressed graphics
images. Built into the definition was a provision for storing multiple images in one
file. The 89a variant (the most commonly used format today) also added the ability
to set delay times between images, in effect creating a definition for a slide show.
This aspect of the GIF format was mostly forgotten until a late beta version of
Netscape Navigator 2 when support for viewing the slide show was added as well
as an extension to the format that defined the looping bevahior, allowing a
continuous loop.
And GIF animation was born. One of the people at the forefront of
bringing GIF animation into the limelight was Royal Frazier. You can find out a lot
more at his homepage.
All you need to know about Gif Animation
Pioneeer Hall - has the original 1st Internet Gallery, including the first sites ever to use GIF89a
animation in the world.
All you need to know about Gif Animation
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