Here you
will find out how to make your own animations! This is a step by
step guide on how to do these fun little animations...
Before we start making movies we need a gif converter rite? A gif
converter is what allows you to put the movies together. I
recommend Gif Movie Gear, that's why I will use it in the how-to
guide. Go to www.tucows.com and at the search box you will want
to type in "Gif Movie Gear"
Once you hit "Enter" or click "Search" it
will take you to the Gif Animator. From there you can click the
download now button and get crackin'! It's only a 810k download
so it shouldn't take long.
Now that you clicked download now you should see something that
reads "Pick A Region", choose wherever your from and
then you will have to enter were you whould like to download
from, i'm from the US so I would then choose the state which is
Pennsylvania. Then once all that is done you should be
downloading...
Here's how to put the animation together and post is on the web!
Open up MS Paint by going Start
Menu>Programs>Acessories>Paint then choose the line tool
and then the largest line. You will then want to choose the
circle tool and then the normal empty circle. Choose a color,
Then drag you mouse on the paper to make the outline of face. Go
back to the line tool and make it the thinnest one. Then back to
the circle tool, and now mack eyes, preferably round eyes. Go to
the paintbrush tool and select the medium sized dot using black.
Place eyeballs in the eye holes we just made. And Now Go to the
file menu and choose save. Save it to the documents file or to a
costomized folder. To make a costomized folder, right-click on
the desktop and choose new, then folder and type in
"Gifs" for a file name. Now you can save to this new
folder bye going to the "Save In" spot and choosing the
new folder you made(should be "Gifs"). Call it
something like "blink", something simple and easy to
remember.
Now open up Gif Movie Gear and choose "Continue" then
choose "Open Existing Animation". Now go to the folder
you made(i'm guessing Gifs) and choose your animation(if you are
following along it should be blink). Hit open or double click on
it, Now it should come up on the screen, save it. You can name it
the same name if you want.
Minimize Gif Movie Gear and go back into Paint. Now you can add
to the animation. Go to the line tool and choose the same color
as the face, Draw a line across the upper part of the eye and the
lower as if he was about to blink. Save that as the same one last
time and you can say yes to overwrite this file. Go into Gif
Movie Gear and and click anywere away from your animation to make
sure it doesn't have a red border around it. Now choose the red
button(should say Insert Frame if you hold your mouse on it) next
to the save button. Insert the new frame, blink, and it should
apear there! Now go back into Paint and make the eye seem closed
even more, BUT NOT SHUT! Save it to the file blink. Repeat the
Insert frame process then go back to Paint and make the eye shut,
save to the file blink. Insert The new gif as usuall and, Viola!
Now go to the disk icon and hit it, save it as blink or whatever
you want and your done! You can click the play button to see how
it came out.
Now you will have to upload it to a webpage. I recommend getting
an account at Tripod, you get a full 11MB of webspace, which is a
lot!
Have Fun!