tiled animation

eridani · Post by **eridani** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:29 am

Hi there, new here. This is a really great program. But I have a question. So I made a GIF, and it's small, only like 50 frames. But I want to make a tiled animation for a YTMND. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a tiled image (or tiled looping GIF) with an accompanying looping sound clip. Here's an example of what I'm talking about.

However, with GIF Animator, all the actual images are in the top left hand corner of the canvas. This is a problem because when it's in a tiled format like in the link above, in the YTMND it appears as the image surrounded by a big black sqaure. So to try to fix that I click to resize the canvas, but it says it's the same size as the image, but the canvas is much bigger. I've also tried to move the image to the middle, resize the canvas so the image fits exactly in it, but still no luck. Any ideas? Thanks.

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:51 am

Did you try resizing the image, not the canvas? Resizing the canvas will just give you more blank space around the image.

Click Edit, Resize Image...

Not knowing what a YTMND is doesn't help me much, even looking at the example...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:27 am

YTMND= Youre The Man Now Dog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTMND

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:08 pm

You're a "hipper dude" than I, Steve!

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:25 pm

And I expect Robert, like me, is non the wiser - are you Steve?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:39 pm

Looks like its a multiple window thing where all the windows display the same video. I don't think I will be creating one!

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:48 pm

sjj1805 wrote:YTMND= Youre The Man Now Dog

I got that bit Steve, I meant this bit

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:03 pm

Lets just say it will not be going into my little notebook of famous phrases!

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:42 pm

I'm keeping this one handy
YTMNS

eridani · Post by **eridani** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:08 pm

sjj1805 wrote:Looks like its a multiple window thing where all the windows display the same video. I don't think I will be creating one!

Yeah that's what it is.

Viking Animations wrote:Did you try resizing the image, not the canvas? Resizing the canvas will just give you more blank space around the image.

That doesn't seem to work, becuase resizing the image also increases the size of the canvas as well, proportionately. Besides, increasing the size of the image would increase the file size, forcing me to further reduce the color count, as the YTMND can only be a certain size. Any other ideas?

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:28 pm

I think you would have better luck asking over at the YTMND site... Find out what specific requirements they have, check out their forum, help, etc.

Doubtful it's a GA issue from what info we have to go on here.

eridani · Post by **eridani** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:36 am

Oh, but I think it is because the GIF is not just the image, it's the entire canvas. And as such YTMND is reading it as such. There must be a way to shrink the canvas to fit just the image...

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:35 pm

If that is the case, select Frame 1. Now select the corresponding Object in the Object Manager (it will have the eye icon in it). Now click "Edit, crop canvas." The canvas will be the same size as the image.

It may help to post your image so we can see it...

If that doesn't do it, try the YTMND site.