Are There Alternatives To Flash Cartoon Animation On The Web?
November 9, 2004 Back by popular demand is our weekly feature on Flash cartoon animation. Most of you enjoyed the frank opinions shared in the first five articles. More of that on the way. We ended the last article by looking at storytelling for Flash cartoon animation. But one question that often comes up is if there are other ways to present cartoons on the Web as easy and vividly as with Flash? GIF Animation An early mean of creating animations on the Web before Macromedia Flash became a standard were gif animations. Gif files are a proprietary image format used by most Webmasters and developers to create compressed files. The advantages of Gif files are that they can contain an invisible layer, masking their edge when applied on most backgrounds. GIF files are also known for their ability to play simple animations. Unlike JPEG files, GIF files can include several images whose playback and speed animators can set. As most programs, including Macromedia Flash export graphic projects
