[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Hugh Manatee:
How do you make an animated Avatar, I got an Idea... Is there a special program I need?(if it were free that'd be great)

I use my favorite paint program (Artgem!, which is sadly no longer available.) and 'Gif Movie Gear' which has a function to import .gif filmstrips which is basically a standard .gif that has all the frames laid out side by side vertically or horizontally. Most of the 'other' animated gif programs force you to save all the frames individually and load them one by one!

Do a search for "animated gif software" you should find several. Microsoft has one that is free, but I never used it so I can't give coments. (although my brother and nephew both use it and seem to like it.)

I hope this helps.

P.S. I feed my avatars with anims I find all over the net!

Cheers!

I found this link to the freeware program...

Microsoft Gif Animator

[ March 15, 2003, 11:59: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]