Expert: Andre Hickman - 6/23/2007

Question
I want to combine multiple animated gifs on 1 canvas. I do not want to make the animated Gifs, I already made them. In other words, I have an animated gif of spinning stars (off screen right to off screen left), another animated gif of a bouncing ball (bottom of screen to top of screen) and still another animated gif of arrows (off screen left to off screen right.) These are three separate animated gifs that need to be put on one canvas without sacrificing their animation. Any ideas or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Answer
Hey John,

There are a few ways that you could do it, if you have the right software...

One would be to import the gifs in a video editor like Adobe After Effects, lay them out and then export an animated gif loop.

I believe a similar approach could be done with Adobe Premiere as well but I am not certain of that, as I am not in the software right now, and can't remember all of the export abilities.

The best way to create one big animated gif of all of them is to use Flash or some other flash developing software.  you can import them all, lay them out, then export a flash movie or an animated gif.

The final way would be to simply code them "tiled" side by side in an html document. Basically you'd be just arranging them in order on a web page.

I hope these suggestions help.  If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask.  

Cheers,
Andre