Of Animations

Hello,

Many requested me about the animations that I have recently rendered using Incendia EX.
Since Incendia only render the image frames, you must assemble them on other software.
There are zillions of programs for assembling videos, but for formats like Animated Gif and Animated PNG, there are very little.

Here are the facts, the tools and the procedure that I follow with some examples:

Animated GIF:
Pros, Small files, faster load times, and there are a lot of tools for making them.
Cons, Only 256 colors! and just one transparency level.

Tools that I use:
IrfanView
VirtualDub

My procedure:
I first use IrfanView batch processing to lower the color depth, from 24bit to just 256 colors with the Floyd Steinberg dithering enabled! (important!), also the images are scaled down here..
Then, I use VirtualDub to open the image files (just by selecting the first one) and then exporting them to a GIF animation.

Examples:




Animated PNG or APNG,
Pros,  Full color support, 256 transparency levels.. You can see the animations in their full color range.
Cons, Animations can only be seen  in Firefox and Opera (and in Google Chrome with an extension), big file sizes and very few tools for making them.

Tools that I use:
IrfanView
APNG Anime Maker
The Gimp

My procedure:
Irfanview for scaling (no color reduction is needed!), then I load the images on APNG Anime Maker and export them using the maximum compression (9).
Just a note, APNG anime maker don't works directly with my Incendia PNG files, no idea why, I just use Infarview to make the files.
For scaling with alpha transparencies, I use the GIMP (no idea why IrfanView didn't works for them).

Examples (go to the deviation pages in order to see the animations, also, only Firefox and Opera!):



If anyone has better tools or better procedures, please let me know!

Just another thing:
Many, Many Thanks to the Anonymous User that yesterday have sended to me a 3 month subscription!!

Aexion


ps. If there are interest on this, I can write a tutorial!