Animated Graphics Links

Animated Graphics Sites

Other Great Sites for Animated Gifs and Icons: ~
Barrysclipart: One of the best sites on the net for animated gifs and icons.
The Animated GIF Recipe: Non-technical how to tutorial on creation of animated GIFs, by Richard Koman of Web Review.
Animated GIFs: A large collection of GIFs, tutorials, and tools. From desktoppublishing.com.
GIF Animation on the WWW: The definitive resource for GIF89a animation. Links, tutorials, specs., programs, even bug reports, everything you need to create effective GIF animations. The GIF89a spec. allows you to embed multiple images into one GIF with timing information. By Royal Frazier.
It's Alive: A site devoted to animation. Employs the creative aspects of animation to enhance Web sites. Utilizes creative editing and looping to achieve the most from its animations without sacrificing color or movement. Spotlights high quailty animation creation via contest and site awards.
John Warnock's GIF Animation Tutorial: A step by step guide to creating animated GIFs with Adobe tools.

Gif Animation Programs: ~
Animagic Gif Animator: A simple, easy to use GIF animation creator and viewer. Supports "dirty rectangles" which crops to the minimum bounding rectangle that surrounds the changed pixels between frames. From Right to Left Software. PC.
A Smaller GIF: Simple GIF animation optimization program that trades compatibility for file size. Supports dirty rectangles From Pedagoguery Software. Mac/PC.
GIF Construction Set: Shareware PC GIF animation creator by Alchemy Mindworks.

Microsoft Gif Animator (can't remember where I downloaded this from, but its a great program.. do a net search for 'microsoft + gif + animator' on any search engine.

Last Updated: Saturday, March 06, 1999