I have Flash 8 and was wondering how you make a cartoon character(that i drew) blink there eyes continuously. I don't mean just wink at you or something and be done but forever. Thanks.
Flash animations typically use vector images, which define the different shapes that make up an image. A GIF is a bitmap (or raster, they're synonyms) image format, which defines the individual pixels that make up an image.
Image below is an example of the difference, stolen from Wikimedia Commons.
Meh...I've never used flash, but I'm guessing that it's not that hard to loop an animation. Probably a lot easier than converting fifty frames to GIF format and piecing them together.
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10 years ago
why not use a GIF?
Reply 10 years ago
Wouldn't you then lose the vector-ness of Flash? GIFs are raster....
Reply 10 years ago
vector-ness?
Reply 10 years ago
Flash animations typically use vector images, which define the different shapes that make up an image. A GIF is a bitmap (or raster, they're synonyms) image format, which defines the individual pixels that make up an image. Image below is an example of the difference, stolen from Wikimedia Commons.
Reply 10 years ago
Congrats on using a jpeg to explain what a vector is.
Reply 10 years ago
lol
Reply 10 years ago
oh, i see you could make a high resolution image...
Reply 10 years ago
Meh...I've never used flash, but I'm guessing that it's not that hard to loop an animation. Probably a lot easier than converting fifty frames to GIF format and piecing them together.
Reply 10 years ago
nah, 2 images, looped, and you are good to go!
Reply 10 years ago
???
Reply 10 years ago
animate the eye with Gimp, then save it as an animation
Reply 10 years ago
how do you do that? thanks for the help.
Reply 10 years ago
something like this;
https://www.instructables.com/id/Create-an-animated-Avatar/
Reply 10 years ago
oh, thanks.