AMKitsune: @fate109: Create your animation and save it as an animated gif file (making sure that it's under 3.5 megabytes, as that's the upload size limit for this booru), then upload it using the 'upload' form which can be found near the top right hand corner of the main page of the booru. When uploading it (or afterwards if you forget), be sure to include "Long_gif_Contest" as a tag so that it can be easily grouped with the other submissions.

That's about it really.
Happy animating!

Kazerad: @AMKitsune: If you can't get it under 3.5 just email it to me or something, and then I'll use SCIENCE to break upload rules.

fate109: Turns out I don't really know how to animate, nor do I know how to use photoshop, in the end I didnt even have my beggining sequence finished when I realised that gifs run at a much slower framerate than movies, and I had over 400 frames :'D, tried using adobe premier to increase framerate which kinda worked, but it would take way to long to finish and photoshop isn't good for animating.

#NoTearsNowOnlyDreams

Kazerad: @fate109: The special thing about gifs is that you can define how long each frame lasts! Pauses can last a long time, or quick animations can run fast.

fate109: @Kazerad: Yeah but in photoshop the least amount of time a frame can last is 0 seconds, but the maximum frame rate the gif plays at with that setting is only like 10 fps I think, and I need it to run somewhere between 15-24 or else it looks blocky :/. Maybe i'm just stust stupid though and don't know how to use photoshop, which could likely be the case lol.

AMKitsune: @fate109: Animating gifs in photoshop is a little strange because, as Kazerad said, they can have a variable frame-rate with some frames lasting longer than others if you wish (which can be excellent for keeping the file size down). The downside to this is that you have to define frame durations in seconds (or 'less than seconds' for quick frames). I'm not sure if you're aware, but if you click 'other' when choosing a frame duration, you can choose whatever duration you want. So, if you wanted to have your animation running at 24 frames per second, you'd just need to work out 1 (second) divided by 24 (frames) which gives you 0.0417 as your frame duration. For technical reasons, I'd strongly advise against ever using 0 for a frame duration as many programs will skip over these frames as fast as possible, effectively playing the animation at super speed.

fate109: Yeah, I think when everthing boils down to the bottom of the pot, and its all dried up and really caked on, and you know it's gunu be horrible to clean later, i'm just plain stupid. I uploaded a gif here: http://www.prequeladventure.com/fanartbooru/post/view/3266 apparently this is with "No Delay" or 0 seconds, and for those of you who really care I also uploaded a video here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/y38x4x6x0z3cup3/cut1.3gp which is apparently running at 15 fps, and I just used adobe premiere to achieve this, so yeah there's that. The only other thing I can think of is that maybe my photoshop is messed, which I will probably blame it on anyways cuz it makes me feel better :D. Knew I shouldn't have trusted that piratebay torrent.

fate109: It would have taken way too long for me to finish anyhow :P, but for those of you that tried to help thanks anyways!

itblobboy: @Kazerad: I assume "finish by the 28th of August" means we can upload it at any point during the 28th, but I'm wondering what time zone that's going to be decided by. The exact deadline may be significant to me given my current progress (fairly incomplete!), or probably not but I still want to know :P

... Hope my entry is well received! I haven't animated very much before (never with GraphicsGale) so I'm trying a lot to make it nice. All the learning is fun, but more like the kind of fun you have when you play Dwarf Fortress.

AMKitsune: @itblobboy:Kaz says "the very end of the last day in the last timezone". So as long as it's still the 28th of august somewhere in the world, you're still good to go.

Baz1S: Here is my second entry. For people who didn't play skyrim and have no clue what's going on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35w1wFUYtA .

StonedGrape: Katia riding the Bartender's rocket... yep

THE-RAGING-OVERLORD:

THE-RAGING-OVERLORD: WAT?...

BOBtheROSS: very solid style, I like it

fate109: This is with photoshop set to "No Delay" or 0 seconds.

???

fate109: BTW this is only about 50 frames.

AMKitsune: The "No Delay" option is pretty much useless. It leaves how the animation is played up to the player in question. For firefox, it plays these frames at a 'firefox defined default speed' (if you're using firefox right now, that's the speed you'll be seeing). My desktop image viewer (Irfanview) happens to interpret the gif differently and play it super quickly.

For smooth movements, you really want frame durations of 0.04 seconds or less while not using the "No Delay" option. (of course, you could use higher durations if you wanted, it's purely down to personal taste)

To give you an example, I took your 'slow' gif and changed the durations of the frames to 0.03 seconds each.



Much smoother (I hope that's how it appears for you anyway...)
This basically forces your image viewer to display the animation at the rate you specified and not to use it's own.

I also lowered the number of indexed colours used when exporting the gif which, for pixely images like this, can be a great way of reducing the file size without loosing detail. You'll find the options for that when exporting your gifs through the 'save for web' menu.
(your original was 2.73mb while this newly optimised version is only 779kb.)

Toryu-Mau: Hmm... tag says crossover.
No idea what it could be.
Anyone else have ideas?

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: Isn't this adorable! Great stuff as always.

Stankloid: It's Meow's hat from Space Dandy, I believe.

CaptainLackwit: Hey, it's Cider again.

Megamaxmax: Updated version. Original was too short, didn't have all my layers when I started it back up so just restarted completely. Did a much better job if I do say so myself.

Riddle78: DOUBLE!

Fallingfeather: well i wasnt expecting THAT. (Super well done though! I love how all of the pins just sloooowly fall)

Sofox: That was fantastically done!

Cloudheart: Strike. Nice play on words. XD

Toryu-Mau: Oooh, getting a real Jazzy vive from this one.
Been saving up to dump a bunch of awsome on us, eh? ;]

OppoQuinn: The tag says Katia, but the hair says Rajirra.

tronn: Pfft what do you mean all Khajiit look the same?

Radian: I'm not done yet, MHAHAHAHAH! Here is demonic badass Katia, ready to reap your soul. Now I'm done...
This technique almost opposite to Makkon's one but I find it much more enjoyable.
Also I can post hi res so you can see how much messy this actually is.

Geravind: Khajiit is sure -- this creature escaped from Diablo universe.

AzuajeM79: God Of Cats

BadReligion:

Yes

YEAAASHSHHHH!!!
@AzuajeM79:
Goddess*

Ye, there is Katia as Bastet stuff...

Bhoren: This is truly impressive !

ammurin: is it... a Balor?

Fallingfeather: Apologies for the incredibly shoddy quality. It was literally the only way I could get this 26 second monster under the 3.5 MB limit, lol.
Anyway, have some magical cloning shenanigans.

Vidiotdragon:

Enheldor: What does the chest say? Also, really clever how you did the time passing texts.

PermanentFace: This is a fantastic idea. It's a shame about the quality of the upload, but it's the best concept for a 'long gif' I've seen so far.

Toryu-Mau: ... Yeah... Absconding the heck out of there is a wise choice. <-- O~ O; .

forestOverlord: I really like the glitchy texture to be honest. Great animation.

forestOverlord: Man, I've been staring at this for ages. It's a really nice animation to watch and it's also really cool to see how all those artefacts double up to reduce to file size.

Fallingfeather: @Enheldor The chest says "Teammates" XD All the text is just rearranged version of the magetallow candles 25 ct sign, so it was difficult to find a word that implies "there are people in this box". XD

And thank you all for the compliments! I'll probably end up uploading the normal, higher quality gif elsewhere. (I am very new to this site though- does anyone know if linking to other images is allowed?)

furnut: This is a very efficient and cheap way to start your own army.

Enheldor: @Fallingfeather: Kazerad said something on the contest's comments section.