Forum: Animation


Subject: Frames In An Animation.

SeamusWarren opened this issue on Apr 28, 2003 ยท 4 posts


SeamusWarren posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 2:21 PM

Hello forum, :o)

What do you call it when the individual frames of an animation share common elements that need not be rewritten completely for each frame unless it is necessary?

I am trying to remember the name of a technique/term for sharing the information in the frames of a Gif animation in order to reduce the overall size of the file. Maybe this is automatic?

Any ideas?

Thank you.


Little_Dragon posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 4:55 PM

In JASC Animation Shop, you have options to "write minimal frames" (compare each frame to the previous and, if possible, write a smaller frame containing only the pixels that have changed) and "collapse identical frames" (where sequential frames are completely unchanged).



SeamusWarren posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 5:23 PM

Wow! Thanks a lot Little Dragon. I'll look-up "JASC". :o)


Little_Dragon posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 9:03 PM

www.jasc.com

Animation Shop is great for GIF-creation. It's bundled with Paint Shop Pro, and is also sold separately.