Made a smaller version,
Edit:

click here for bigger.


Thanks for all the advice.....

From the Creationism challenge. See all 281 entries (closed)

(londoner, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:02, archived)

horizontal black lines a pixel thick every other pixel

(Sticky Label, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:03, archived)

Sit on it
Very nice btw. I like the lightning.
(Pachey, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:04, archived)

it is very woo
simple ways to optimise are just decreasing the dimensions, that works quite well
( Neon Blue Ah ha ha, I feel positively Capital!, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:04, archived)

TOO FAST!
that's almost as fast as Charlie speaks on BB8
( planearm, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:05, archived)

the fast-ness
hides the crapness ( my first proper animation ).
(londoner, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:06, archived)

it's not crap, it's ace
at least slow down the speech bubbles.

It's very good. well done on your first anim, and indeed, woo!
( drbroon a poor wee monkey stole his face, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:10, archived)

who? on the what now?

( The Great Architect, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:06, archived)

FASTERER

( g0atchild lays in the forest, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:07, archived)

the mere fact that you
know the name of something on anything BB related means that your opinion is irrelevant.

It's a crying fucking shame I nearly understood wtfyaboa.
( Pasanonic so I compo anything with words, right?, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:23, archived)

That's nice fella, good stuff
good optimisation tips can be found here:

www.lemony.co.uk/Optimisation/animations.htm

depends what program you're using
( The Great Architect, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:07, archived)

thanks...
using imageready, just not very good at it...
(londoner, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:09, archived)

two ticks, there is a special button:


worth checking this out, and then playing with colours, lossy etc until it looks right.
It's helped me a lot in the animated gifs I do (thankfully, all too few)

also, if it still doesn't look right, do a google search for 'scanlines' or tv scanlines'
reasonably easy to do on imageready and can drastically reduce the file size
( The Great Architect, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:12, archived)

with special thanks to M3

;)
( M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:15, archived)

indeed
*I still owe you for that*
( The Great Architect, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:15, archived)

cheers
thanks a lot
(londoner, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:16, archived)

Ooo thanks!
I like to think my photoshop fu is strong, but I didn't know that trick.
( Poisoned Al R Tape loading error, 0:1, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 19:00, archived)

That's great!
You can always make a mini version to post in the thread and post a link to the full size, with a mention of how big the full size is.
( Monty Propps if you've got a field that don't yield, get up and, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:07, archived)

EDIT: SLOWERER!!
( M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:09, archived)

ha, nicely done
but with that many frames it's going to be really hard to get down to 250K! you using imageready? best bet is to drop the number of colours, up the lossiness, reduce the dimensions and maybe add some scanlines...
www.moesrealm.com/photoshop/scanline.html
( rogan, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:10, archived)

fewer colours
and no dithering

often help
( Discomeats fish fingers are READY!, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:12, archived)

that's very nice
and you did the right thing by linking and asking.
the main thing is, you've got a lot going on (62 frames), so there's no quick solution.
here's a version i got under budget if you want:
click
i've halved the dimensions (but you can resize it back to 280 in your img tag), reduced the colours and made it a bit lossy.
it looks a bit rubbish compared the original, but you'd obviously still want to link to the original anyway
edit: never mind. you've done it yourself

that scanlines thing might be a better solution. i've never tried it
( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:16, archived)

very nicley done,
have a woo and a *click*!
( Zank Frappa Dahmer Llama Karma Drama!, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:17, archived)

fantastic animation!
good job on smallifying it too
( Mousing, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:17, archived)

Hehe! It doesn't lose much by being reduced!
With gifs though it's worth messing about with the timing of frames.
( Monty Propps if you've got a field that don't yield, get up and, Thu 14 Jun 2007, 18:20, archived)