Summary:
This article explains graphic animation design for beginners. The following subjects are covered:

*What You Need to Know
*Animation Terminology
*How Animations Work

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Creating Graphic Animations for the Web:
A General Explanation for Beginners

Creating animations for the web can seem to be a complicated process for beginners. If you´re new to the graphic design field, you might feel overwhelmed with all of the techniques and terminology used in training. This article briefly explains graphic animation, some of the terms you might encounter while learning and how animation works.

What You Need to Know

To create animations from scratch, you should have a basic knowledge of graphic design and become familiar with a program that enables animation creation. You don´t have to be an artist for basic images such as banners with words flashing, etc. However, artistic skills will help tremendously if you plan to create complicated images such as handmade clipart.

Graphic Animation Terminology

Animations are created using several different functions of a graphic design program. Although these functions might be titled uniquely, they all reach for the same goal - to create an image that "moves".

Animation Background: The background is the image you´ll create first in a series of images. The background remains constant and appears with every scene. It provides your foundation for animation creation.

Overlay: An overlay is an exact copy of the background which is placed over the background, usually with a slight change. You might overlay the background several times while creating your animation to develop different looks.

Frames: Frames are segments created one on top of the other which appear in segments to create motion. One image might require five frames while another will require twenty frames. Each frame represents a piece of your image puzzle, and the number of frames needed depends on the complexity of your image.

Frame Delay: Your frame delay is the amount of time (specified by you) that you´d like that particular frame to appear on the screen.

Animation Loop and Speed: A loop is the rotation of your frames to create the moving image. You can set the speed of your loops based on how fast or slow you´d like the image to move.

.Gif Animations: Animations are saved as .gif files which enables them to be placed online.

How Animations Work

To simplify animations, think back to when you were a child. You might recall
making your own book of cartoon pictures and flipping the pages to create motion. Or, perhaps you had a friend who loved drawing and created his/her own cartoons. This is how cartoons are created and also how animations...

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