yet another question about saving animations in IR

[geckoholic]

And yeah, please don't decide to skip the entry just now

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[sugarskyhigh]

i.. have no idea about animated icons. just wanted to say how awesome your icon is! :D

[geckoholic]

Hehe, thank you! He's quite an eyecandy, isn't he? ;-)

[aida_rose]

http://community.livejournal.com/icon_tutorial/1027451.html#optimization

3 rules when making animated icons:

1. Make the animation as small as possible, having the whole 100 x 100 square/or 100x 60/70px and bigger ALL animated is a bad idea, and will result in a very large file size (crop it to a smaller size) smaller pixel size (less than 100 px) = smaller file size.
2. Delete identical frames, or frames that are almost identical. less frames = less file size.
3. Make the whole animation black and white. less color = less file size.

It's all pretty logical if you think about it.

[princess_narnia]

Sorry...replied your comment. *face palm*

[geckoholic]

Ugh, I never got back to you . . . *facepalm* Thank you for the advice! And you're right, it makes sense . . . ;-)

[princess_narnia]

Agreed with everything aida_rose just said. :D

I tend to go for a 70/55 or 70x60 size and even then it takes some fiddling. You have to tweak it and see what works. I still do that and I've been animating since last year.

Actually one of the frames at the start can probably go. It might take you down to 39KB instantly.

[geckoholic]

VERY late reply, sorry!! *hides*

Ok then, I'll make versions of it with the actuall animation being smaller on a solid canvas, to make them fit LJ standards . . .

And yeah, she's right, makes sense if you think about it . . . *nods*

I took a few out, and am almost there, though not quite (around 60KB or something) but I'll figure something out, thanks to you guys!! :-)

[princess_narnia]

Not at all... :)

Smaller animation size, reducing the no. of colours (128 instead of 256 or even 64 to make it even lower). All that helps. If its B/W you can get away with lowering the number of colours to 128 or 64 even and the drop in quality won't be so obvious. I did that for a bunch of animated icons recently and it worked just fine.

I have that prob but I just pull out frames one by one and tweak it. You'll get the hang of it, I'm sure. :)

[geckoholic]

*makes notes*

Thank you again for your tips! I'd have been lost without you guys . . . ;-)

[iolity]

And I think you can make it smaller by making the time on each frame less :]

[geckoholic]

Thank you for the hint! :-)

[iolity]

You're welcome ;]