How to: Create your own AVI Cartoons

Step 3: Your first Animation.

Now we are ready to make things happen. There is a program I highly recommend for this part. It is only an evaluation copy, (shareware), but it is fully functional until the timeout. The program is called Coffee Cup GIF Animator. Click on Download above to get it.

I recommend Coffee Cup because it has one feature most programs like it do not, you can convert nearly any animation you make into the popular AVI format that I used here.

Use Coffee Cup to turn all of the individual images into one Animated GIF, in this case I saved it as vccmintro.gif. You will find it in the MEDIA directory of this package.

Then select Export to AVI from the File menu. I did not include the silent avi in this package. It was over six megabytes and I felt that was an unnecessary waste of download bandwidth.

You are now ready to proceed to Step Four.

Please note: This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the process of creating the original artwork. This is not a guide to using graphics programs.