M2 Explain The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Animated Gifs
Introduction: In this task I will be discussing the features, advantages and also the limitations of animated gifs and that is for P3.
For M2 I will be comparing animated gifs to another animation format such as flash and I will also include things such as a few examples of flash and also animated gifs. If it is appropriate I will also include screenshots to support my findings and research. I will also be referencing the findings.
Last but not least for M1 I will be explaining the following:
• Persistence of vision
• Animation techniques used by historical pioneers of animation and these will include people such as William Horner, Edison and also the Lumiere brothers.
• I will also be explaining an animation type that is known as Claymation. …show more content…
This basically means that you can use a series of images and you can do this by using frames from something like a film and then when you have done this you can make a gif. Another advantage of gifs is that they are small in file size well most of them are depending on the image that you are doing. So this is good because you can easily run your gif image on your website without slowing down the loading time of the website so basically your website won’t be affected by the gif that you have inserted in. this is an advantage over flash because flash animation are a lot bigger then animated gifs and so by having large file sizes they can slow your website down. Another advantage of gif is that they are supported by literally every web browser so this good because you won’t have a limitation of choosing a web browser that will support your gif image. Last but not least another advantage is that a gif image has lossless compression and this means that the file size can be reduced without losing too much quality on the image so not a lot of pixels will be lost form your
For M2 I will be comparing animated gifs to another animation format such as flash and I will also include things such as a few examples of flash and also animated gifs. If it is appropriate I will also include screenshots to support my findings and research. I will also be referencing the findings.
Last but not least for M1 I will be explaining the following:
• Persistence of vision
• Animation techniques used by historical pioneers of animation and these will include people such as William Horner, Edison and also the Lumiere brothers.
• I will also be explaining an animation type that is known as Claymation. …show more content…
This basically means that you can use a series of images and you can do this by using frames from something like a film and then when you have done this you can make a gif. Another advantage of gifs is that they are small in file size well most of them are depending on the image that you are doing. So this is good because you can easily run your gif image on your website without slowing down the loading time of the website so basically your website won’t be affected by the gif that you have inserted in. this is an advantage over flash because flash animation are a lot bigger then animated gifs and so by having large file sizes they can slow your website down. Another advantage of gif is that they are supported by literally every web browser so this good because you won’t have a limitation of choosing a web browser that will support your gif image. Last but not least another advantage is that a gif image has lossless compression and this means that the file size can be reduced without losing too much quality on the image so not a lot of pixels will be lost form your