Topic awaiting preservation: Can I try too?

Here's my first attempt at an animated sig
(i'm not adding it in my signature yet-)

{ I deleted the file--sorry look below! }

I once knew how to remove this ugly white border... [corrected - i hope]

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde

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I love it.

The animation is rather jerky....I think it would be a little better if it were smooth, but I love the image.

Nice quote too =)

I know it's jerky, but to make it smoother I need to add more frames, don't I?
And more frames = bigger size...
I only have 3 frames for now, I'm gonna try to find a good compromise between smoothness and size.
How many frames should I have?

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde

I noticed also that between the first and second frame, it looks like the top of the head moves down a little and then back up for frame three.

Yeah, the whole image distorts a bit in the vertical direction. Beyond that and the need for more frames it's pretty cool.

There's no hard and fast rule about how many frames you should have. I won my very first sig contest with a 3-frame animation, as a matter of fact.

That being said, two more frames might help smooth things out. I definitely think you can get away with five frames on this one. Also, cleaning up the vertical distortion will go a long way to making it seem smoother, too.

I added a frame (actually duplicated one), and changed the Frame Delay.

But I messed up with the files and didn't keep the original...So you won't see the work progression.
Anyway...
I like it better this way

as for the distortion, it appears when I make the image smaller...one layer seems to distort by himself. weird.
So here are the two versions:





A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde

If all the layers are the same size to begin with, and you shrink them the same amount, that shouldn't happen. I have no idea why one of the layers is a pixel wider.