~Creating Animated .Gif's~
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Also a great way to start Flash making)
There is not much to do when you want to create an animated movie or picture.
All you need is to have lots of patience and as well a little extra time
The Utilities
1. Microsoft GIF Animator(Free) or Flash/3rd parties
2. Any .Bmp editor for example MSpaint or PaintShop Pro
3. An
Emulator and a Rom (If you want to use sprites from video games)
MSpaint is still very usefull when it comes to
editing drawings and graphic file. The only bad part is that you can't make drawings transparent or have special editing like Paintshop Pro or
Photoshop.
For starters, create something simple like a stick waving his hand
First time using flash? try learning from
tutorials web pages provide like:
            
www.flashkit.com
~.Gif animators VS. Flash/3rd parties~