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3D Animations Workshop - 3D Animation Workshop is a place where you can learn about a beautiful new medium, with a special eye for its use on the Web.
Corel DRAW! Animated GIFs - This tutorial will demonstrate how you can create an Animated GIF logo. I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows for this technique. Some things may be done differently with other versions.
Creating
Animated GIFs - This workshop will teach the
budding web designer to create animated gifs for use on
a web page. In the first part of the workshop, users will
learn to put ready-made frames together to create an animation.
In the second part, users will learn to create their own
frames.
Creating
Animated Gifs - The world of animated gifs
is a fascinating one indeed. Anyone can create animated
gifs, irrespective of the graphics skills one has.
Creating Animated GIFs in Photoshop 7 and ImageReady - One of the coolest things about authoring for the Web is that you can include animation, which is something that print publishing obviously can't offer.
Creating Animated GIFs (PDF) - You will learn how to easily create animated GIFs
Creating Animated Gifs With Macromedia Fireworks (PDF) - creating animated gifs with macromedia fireworks
Easy Steps to Creating Your First Animated Gif A step-by-step tutorial to making your first animated GIF file.
Effective Animation Article that will show you how to create effective animations that support your message without getting in the way.
Get Animated - Learn how to create simple animation effects called transitions without having any artistic talent!
GIF89a-based Animation for the WWW - No plug-ins, no programming, no hassles...just pure GIF...
How Did You Animate Me? - As a Web Designer, Graphic Artist and HTML Instructor for Virtual University, I have received a lot of questions related to animated graphics and decided to create this web site to try to clarify some of them in an easy manner:
How Web Animation Works - These days, you can find animated figures all across the Internet! For example, the How Stuff Works Animation Tour contains dozens of the best animated figures from How Stuff Works articles. There are a number of technologies that web designers use to create animation
Introduction to Creating Animated Gifs - This is a very basic introduction for creating animated images.
JavaScript Animation Shows you how to use Javascript to animate
Optimizing Animated Gifs This article shows how you can create the smallest possible animated GIFs
Sketchpad.net Animation Tutorials - Step By Step Tutorials For Making Your Own Animations
So, You Want An Animated gif, Huh? - Ah, the animated gif. Or as I call it, the anti-java. The thing above is an animated gif. It should be moving, at least.
Spinning Globe Tutorial software specific animation tutorials
Web Diner Animation Tutorial A help page to create gif animations using shareware tools
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