! MAKING ANIMATIONS WITH FAINTCAD !
PaintCAD is a java application
4editing and creating pictures.
But the best thing is u can edit
and make animations with this
application. This blog is 4a little
help 4those who doesn't know
how 2make animations. I'm
explaining the process of making
gif animation here.
First u hav2 know how GIF
animation works. An animated GIF
can contain many frames(still gif
images). All the frames are packed
in one file of GIF which works as
animation. When u open a GIF
animation, it shows the 1st frame,
then 2nd frame, then 3rd frame
etc serially and after the last frame
it shows the 1st frame again and
repeats the cycle frequently. Thus
we see animations.
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Now I will give u a task of making
a little GIF animation as a tutorial
and if u can complete this task u
can go 4more complex
animations. Here it starts...
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START : Open PaintCAD and press
any key. Then choose english
language. Now it will show u
many options. From there choose
CREATE NEW , 80x80(height 80
and length 80) andselect BMP 256
colours . U will see a white colour
image box on the screen. Press
right softkey and select the
FILL
option.
STEP1 : Press the left soft key and
choose any light green colour and
press OK. Now press the 5 button
and instantly the white image will
bcome light green. Press 0 button
and select
SAVE then select GIF . U
will see a text editing option ( .gif
is already there). Now write
E:/1.gif (E:/ means your memory
card. If u dont hav a memory card
then u can press the OPTION and
select BROWSE to choose a folder
manually) and press OK. It will
show a page asking 2select
transparent colour (not very
important 4this tutorial but its
very helpfull 2make transparet
images). Ignore that by pressing
the OK button and press OK again
(select
NOTHING 8bpp ). Then
allow the filesystem access
permissions. Now your first frame
is saved in your file system.
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STEP2 : Press the left softkey and
choose a deep green colour and
press OK. Then press the 5 button
and the image will turn into deep
green. Now repeat the whole
process described in Step1 but
this time the image name should
be 2.gif ( E:/2.gif for memory
card). Then save again in the
same procedure.
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STEP3 : Repeat step2 and choose
a light red colour and save it as
3.gif ( E:/3.gif for memory card)
by following step1.
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STEP4 : Repeat step2 and choose
a deep red colour and save it as
4.gif ( E:/4.gif for memory card)
by following step1.
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STEP5 : Repeat step2 and choose
a yellow colour and save it as 5.gif
( E:/5.gif for memory card) by
following step1.
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STEP6 : Repeat step2 and choose
a black colour and save it as 6.gif (
E:/6.gif for memory card) by
following step1.
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STEP7 : Now u hav successfully
saved 6 images (named 1.gif ,
2.gif , 3.gif , 4.gif , 5.gif and 6.gif)
in your filesystem. Its enough
4making an animation.
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STEP8 : Press the 0 button and
select the VIDEO-GIF option. It will
show an attention page, ignore it
by pressing OK. Now allow to
access filesystem. Then u will see
the folders of your phone
memory. If u saved the images in
memory card then browse and go
to the memory card (
To open or
select a folder press 6 and to go
back from a folder press 4
). Thus
go inside the folder where u
saved the six images. Now press
the left softkey and choose IN
THIS FOLDER option.
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STEP9 : Now u will see a text
editing option written anim.gif ,
press OK and allow filesystem
permissions every time.
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STEP10 : Now u will see a page
with six lines text and every line
starts with X (like
X 1.gif:100ms ).
Press 4 button and all the X will be
deleted. Now press OK and again
give permissions to filesystem
everytime.
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STEP11 : After finishing it, a
message will appear saying
ANIMATION WAS PACKED IN FILE.....
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STEP12 : Now close the
application and go to that folder
and open the image named
anim.gif .......thats it. U hav created
an animation of changing 6
colours one by one.
* If u hav finish the whole process
successfully then I think u hav got
an idea on how2 make gif
animations. So, now try with more
complex images 4making
animations. Remember that the
most importent thing of making
an animation is imagination.
NOTE : All the procedure given
above are tasted on Nokia 6303i c.
Some key press steps may not
match for other phone models. 