P3-Task 2 (Ad's and Dis-ad's and limitations of animated GIFS)

Animated Gif's

A Gif is a file type which is short for Graphics Interchange Format, they are a file that is mainly used on the web, and for web banners in advertisement. Animated Gif's are made up of an animation project then looped together to create a vision of a moving image replayed over and over again

Gif files are a group of frames linked together and then looped into creating a 'short movie' type of document,

Limitations of Animated Gif's

Larger animations can be memory taxing.

File size limitations

Best to limit colours used

No sound

Playback speed dependent on connection speed

Appear different on different platforms or browsers

Remember that all animation is a slideshow of rendered images.

Advantages:

1. Easy to make.

2. Small in file size.

3. Load quickly.

4. Easy to use in webpages.

5. If browser supports images it most likely supports animated gifs.

6. No plugins needed

Disadvantages:

1. No interaction that is available in flash.

2. No Sound.

3. Harder to make more complex animations.

4. Hard to modify once created.

5. Animations are static i.e cannot retrieve text,settings from a file or database to change the animation.