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#1 2010-07-21 11:58:17
- lilacfuzz101
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How do i make my icon animated?
What it says in the topic... I tried to upload a scratch project saved as a picture, but it said it was too big. the only thing that it did was change the text color...
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#2 2010-07-21 12:18:45
- ScratchReallyROCKS
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Re: How do i make my icon animated?
lilacfuzz101 wrote:
What it says in the topic... I tried to upload a scratch project saved as a picture, but it said it was too big. the only thing that it did was change the text color...
You need to use an animated gif.
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#3 2010-07-21 18:11:39
- scratch_yoshi
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Re: How do i make my icon animated?
Use GIMP to animate icons. Google it.
Retired from Scratch, but just the language itself. Not the forums.
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#4 2010-07-21 18:14:41
#5 2010-07-21 19:17:16
- ScratchReallyROCKS
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Re: How do i make my icon animated?
scratch_yoshi wrote:
Use GIMP to animate icons. Google it.
I always use Gimp for everything. Just look at my signature.
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#6 2010-07-21 19:28:24
Re: How do i make my icon animated?
A simple animated GIF should do the trick... Just do a Google search for "Animated GIFs" and a wide array of them should pop up.
And, as previous posters mentioned, you can also use GIMP to make them, though I'm not entirely sure how to do this. This topic should explain it for you, though 
Good luck!
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#7 2010-07-22 16:41:56
- lilacfuzz101
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Re: How do i make my icon animated?
Thanks for all your help! I hope i can find a Phineas and Ferb icon (i should have made my username something P&F related. oh well!)
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#8 2010-07-22 16:50:36
Re: How do i make my icon animated?
You can get a gif (animated picture) from the internet and save it as "something.gif" and then set that picture as your icon, or you can take part of a movie and import it to something like adobe premier pro, and export it as a gif.
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#9 2010-07-23 14:08:59
- lilacfuzz101
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Re: How do i make my icon animated?
i now have my animated icon! it's violet parr from the incredibles!
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#10 2010-07-23 19:00:00
- JeanTheFox
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Re: How do i make my icon animated?
Okay... maybe someone can move this to FAQs?
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#12 2010-07-27 13:29:28
- JeanTheFox
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Re: How do i make my icon animated?
coolstuff wrote:
Good point, JeanTheFox! I think at the moment we are good with the FAQs, but we may reconsider in the future.
Okay 
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#20 2010-08-30 11:09:09
Re: How do i make my icon animated?
hdarken wrote:
sanddude wrote:
hdarken wrote:
Yes it is, Animated Portable Network Graphics.Is it smaller than GIF?
Don't know.
I'd imagine it's larger - GIFs are usually of a somewhat low quality, PNGs are usually cream of the crop. I'd never heard of APNG until now, but I'd reckon it's similar to PNGs.
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#21 2010-08-31 01:55:47
Re: How do i make my icon animated?
coolstuff wrote:
hdarken wrote:
sanddude wrote:
Is it smaller than GIF?Don't know.
I'd imagine it's larger - GIFs are usually of a somewhat low quality, PNGs are usually cream of the crop. I'd never heard of APNG until now, but I'd reckon it's similar to PNGs.
I've heard of it, but I don't know anything about it. xD
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#23 2010-09-01 19:07:51
- xXmoonXx44
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Re: How do i make my icon animated?
I usually use GIMP for animated ones. I used to use Gickr but it kinda sucks... I found out only today how to animates stuff. I'm too lazy to read the online guide to GIMP XD
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