Help with creating an animated gif

[saluman]

Hi All,

I have a gif image that I need to animate (essentially a circle with a shape inside it). I would like to animate the gif in such a way that it appears as though the image in the circle is spinning out towards me and then back in toward the screen.

Unfortunately I don't even know where to start or what to do, can anyone recommend a tool that would do all of this for me (without having to draw each separate stage of the image (which I cant for the life of me seem to get the right perspective on). I am only after one image being turned in to an animated gif.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Regards

Craig.

[bathurst_guy]

I use flash, but $

[felgall]

Create all of the gif images that you require for the animation as separate images first.

Once you have all of the images you then use a gif animation program to combine the images into a single animated gif. If you have Paint Shop Pro then the Animation Shop program that comes with it can create the animation.