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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
October 14 2006 00:58 GMT
#1
Anyone else like making small animated gif's of starcraft things? I figured out how to do it from a bit of playing around and I've started making some. Here are a couple:

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Hopefully some people are knowledgable on this topic and we can discuss it. Also, if people want to make suggestions for animations I suppose that could work.
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pheer
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
5390 Posts
October 14 2006 01:25 GMT
#2
I could benefit by knowing what software you used.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
October 14 2006 01:33 GMT
#3
Fraps to capture, virtual dub mod to edit the video, cheap crap software to convert avi to gif, then fireworks to optimize the gif a bit
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zdd
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
1463 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-10-14 01:52:33
October 14 2006 01:39 GMT
#4
sounds like a lot of work for no seemly purpose. maybe you could add some funny captions or speech bubbles?

as for suggestions: maybe you could do some pimpest play things, or illustrate some hard to explain strategies?
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Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-10-14 01:49:00
October 14 2006 01:48 GMT
#5
Can you make a small guide? Programs to use for example? Very nice btw.
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funkie
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Venezuela9374 Posts
October 14 2006 01:54 GMT
#6
They look reallt HQ. they weight a lot also, 1MB each.

Nice idea, a lot of things can rise form this ;o.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
October 14 2006 02:26 GMT
#7
I will consider writing a short guide. Maybe I'll wait a bit before I do so other people can have some input. Keep in mind though, not all of the software I use is free so you'll have to either have the software or 'get' the software.

zdd: making one of those only takes a few minutes so it's not a lot of work (once you get the system down at least).

As for the quality, yeah the nicer they look the more they take up....the decent looking ones at a decent size are a bit over a meg, but it's pretty easy to reduce quality in exchange for reducing size.
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Knickknack
Profile Joined February 2004
United States1187 Posts
October 14 2006 02:58 GMT
#8
Hydralisk doing the macarena!?:

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A3iL3r0n
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States2196 Posts
October 14 2006 03:02 GMT
#9
On October 14 2006 11:26 micronesia wrote:
I will consider writing a short guide. Maybe I'll wait a bit before I do so other people can have some input. Keep in mind though, not all of the software I use is free so you'll have to either have the software or 'get' the software.

zdd: making one of those only takes a few minutes so it's not a lot of work (once you get the system down at least).

As for the quality, yeah the nicer they look the more they take up....the decent looking ones at a decent size are a bit over a meg, but it's pretty easy to reduce quality in exchange for reducing size.


A guide on how to make these would be very nice. Specifically, I can think of nice written strategy guide, with these gifs at the end of a paragraph illustrating a bit of the strategy just laid out.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
October 14 2006 03:20 GMT
#10
On October 14 2006 12:02 A3iL3r0n wrote:
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A guide on how to make these would be very nice. Specifically, I can think of nice written strategy guide, with these gifs at the end of a paragraph illustrating a bit of the strategy just laid out.


If it's for that purpose, then assuming this is an online guide, you could have video clips instead of animated gifs to accomplish the same purpose. I think whether a video or animated gif would be preferable depends on the size of what you are showing.
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A3iL3r0n
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States2196 Posts
October 14 2006 03:31 GMT
#11
True, although for showing snippets of a particular replay, it would be pretty useful.
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sdpgposd
Profile Joined October 2005
United Kingdom1464 Posts
October 14 2006 03:39 GMT
#12
you should write a guide then we can enter our own as a competition type thing
[jOyO]
Profile Joined July 2006
United States920 Posts
October 14 2006 03:46 GMT
#13
i wanna see one of a good zvt battle with swarm and everything
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Rotodyne
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2263 Posts
October 14 2006 03:52 GMT
#14
nice, I like those alot
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
October 14 2006 04:04 GMT
#15
On October 14 2006 12:39 sdpgposd wrote:
you should write a guide then we can enter our own as a competition type thing


hehe that's an idea...I should ask tl.net if it can be made into a sanctioned competition of some kind. I don't really have any prizes to offer so someone else gogo!
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September
Profile Joined October 2006
China17 Posts
October 18 2006 12:46 GMT
#16
this is screen print.
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skyglow1
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
New Zealand3962 Posts
October 18 2006 15:20 GMT
#17
On October 18 2006 21:46 September wrote:
this is screen print.


You didn't read his post? He explained how to do it with video recording.
useLess
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4781 Posts
October 18 2006 16:10 GMT
#18
For the first two you posted, i think it would look neater if you made them loop. I thought the first one was, but it was still a bit off. if you could throw some more frames of the zealot moving down to the starting position, its almost as good.

For the second one, if theres some way to keep focus on the ghost after the nuke, it could look like its continuously nuking the same base.
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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
October 18 2006 16:12 GMT
#19
I could do it w/ flash >_>
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SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
October 18 2006 16:16 GMT
#20
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dancing zealot =]
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