At its most basic, an animation is a series of images presented in rapid sequence to produce the illusion of motion. Many people make a distinction between animation as non-photographic artwork presented in this way, and movies as photographic images presented in sequence; but conceptually they’re very similar.
Reasons to Use Animation:
- Calls attention to something
- Illustrate a point that cannot be made with static images
- Entertainment
- Distracting
- Can look unprofessional
- Will add load time to websites
Image Ready?
ImageReady has fewer features than Photoshop and is designed for quick editing of web graphics rather than effects-intensive graphics editing. ImageReady is a "pixel-based animation tool". This means that it stores the aimations as frames where each varies from the next based on differences in small square dots of color that used to display thins on the screenTo that end, ImageReady has such features as animated GIF creation, image compression optimization, slices for creating rollover effects, and HTML generation.
Tips and tutorials for creating animated GIFs and other animations with Adobe Photoshop and Imageready.
In Class Example
Easy:
Shake Effect
Snow Globe--create a Christmas wonderland
Harder
Animated TV
Moving Sunset
Invisible Text
Hardest:
Creating Giffs using movies
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