Turn the page v2 (after Draconian)

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

alc59 wrote:

That's really cool, works good on Waterfox, did you make that with just gimp
I wish all browsers would support apng, they look a lot better than gif
There's a few apng optimizers on this site
littlesvr

Thank you, alc. When I need more control over animation I'm using VirtualDub apng mode and APNG Anime Maker.
Otherwise, I use apng plugin for GIMP.
The GIF version of the same animation is just a disaster, even after using best color dithering methods and optimized color palette.
256 color space is a 1980's atavism when GIF was first introduced to the world.

ek22 wrote:

Chrome has a plugin for it that shows it just fine. Sure other browsers have similar plugins.

Full list of browsers supporting APNG in Wiki
Browser support isn't an issue with apng. The problem is that just a few websites with user-defined content support or allow this format,
mostly for content censoring reasons. When uploading apng servers can decode and 'see' first frame only, while other frames can contain
illegal stuff.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Oregonian wrote:

k1te, that is wonderful. Lots of work and thought in that (maybe the wine helped? :hehe

).

Thank you, O!
Wine was definitely a part of inspiration process :hehe

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:32 pm **(#13)**

If anyone is wondering about support for apng and pretty well everything else to do with browsers.
http://caniuse.com/
http://caniuse.com/#feat=apng

AnMal · **Posted:** Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:34 pm **(#14)**

k1tesseraena: that's amazing! to someone who really can't make even a simple gif animation it's awe-inspiring. finally the pages actually turn

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K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

AnMal wrote:

k1tesseraena: that's amazing! to someone who really can't make even a simple gif animation it's awe-inspiring. finally the pages actually turn

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AnMal. Of course you can make gif animations. Think of the layers as frames, simple as that. With your skillset - piece of cake!
Yeah, pages turn, but for some reason I don't like this animation any more. It was another impromptu thing. The only thing I like and
don't like at the same time - WHITE to 838382 bi-linear gradient applied to the pages. Like the way it worked out well from the first attempt,
don't like because it looks a bit too shiny, but it's just my opinion, which isn't always right.
Beside, now I can see the imperfections: the image along the page curl should be slightly distorted when the page is being turned
(it's doable but I gotta think about that). The whole perspective sucks. I need to make a view of an entire open book, pages making a full
turn with images on both sides. Sounds challenging but I love challenges

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

^^All I can say is go for it and best of luck to you with that, It sounds far to complicated.

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Nov 24, 2012 7:20 pm **(#17)**

k1tesseraena: well, sooner or later i will have to try animation again, because i want to make one of draconian's indicator lights, but so far all my attempts at animation have been utter crap. good luck with the changes to the animation, but i agree with he4rty - it sounds way too complicated.