Re: My first animation

One of the drawbacks of many animations is that words that are
on the screen less than 100% of the time are more likely to be
missed by users. (Which is why <BLINK> is such a bad idea for a tag).
If you want your words to be part of the animation, try having
one or two words at a time appear in each successive frame, with
the first frame having at least one word. Then the user will know 
that words will (eventually) appear to explain the graphic, and
won't miss them while turning to pick up a cup of coffee or
answer the phone (all tempting activities while waiting for
a 300K image to download over a modem) - instead they can
stare intently at the screen waiting for the full sentence to appear.

I agree that the movement needs to be smoother - there's too much
of a jump between frames. Downsizing to about 200 pixels wide
would allow more frames per cycle in the same file size.

Also, the black figures on a dark blue background were hard to make 
out. Consider having them in a lighter color.

Viewed in NN 4.7 on Win98, 1024 x 768, 16 bit color, full T1.

--Liz

At 12:38 PM 5/28/00 -0700, janet lynne wrote:
>The words are a little too fast to be readable.
>
>Your link didn't work so I tried:
>http://georgia-dale-specialty.com/images/gadale4.gif
>and it worked.
>
>AnnieMation.com
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: David Pippen <gadale(at)earthlink.net>
>To: Critique <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 10:46 AM
>Subject: My first animation
>
>
>> This is my first animation and I would like all the opinion I can get:
>> http://georgia-dale-specialty.com/image/gadale4.gif 
>> Thanks In advance
>> --
>> David Pippen
>> Georgia Dale Specialty Co.
>> P.O. Box 150064
>> Atlanta, Ga 30315
>> 
>> 1-888-274-9342
>> www.georgia-dale-specialty.com
>> http://www.blackplanet.com/Members/Pipwax
>> It doesn't Matter how many pails of milk you spill.
>> Just don't lose the cow.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>
>
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