Gif comics and Illustrations

[Starlover200]

Can anyone give me some tips on how to make comics that have small animated parts in the comic, things like how to create them, and what programs work best would really help.

[Kayke]

How do you make GIFs?

Here's a topic with some helpful links and tips.
I know I make my gifs the same way that @UzukiCheverie describes:

GIMP works, but Photoshop is a little more flexible with it, as you can open your layers in the Timeline and set them as frames, then adjust how long each frame lasts, if needed. So it just has a few more options when it comes to making them.

Basically, when you make an animated gif, just treat each layer as a "frame". This means that if you were doing an animation of, say, a twinkling star, with two looping positions for the star - you'd need to put the same image twice on separate layers, and then change the animation on the second layer above the first, so that when you go from one layer to the other, it looks like it's changing, and then in turn when you animate it in Photoshop/GIMP, it loops on its own.

Also, the size limit for gifs on Tapastic is the same size limit for images on Tapastic, as you upload them the same way you would as an image - 2 MB, with a maximum width of 940 px.

[Afroskeleton]

I use photoshop for small animated pixelart gifs, here is how I do it (I use it
First open the time line thing

If you don't have it open go to window> timeline

Then select create an frame animation (I think that's the way it's traduced but I have no idea) it should look like this

Now you can create new frames with the flipnote icon (the one in the center)

You can also adjust the time

Hope it helps you!

[Starlover200]

Thank you so much, this really helped.^^