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• Having some fun here with an animation, a still image, and JavaScript...
  
  To start the fan, click and hold the mouse button. To stop the fan, release the mouse button.
  
  The original fan was made by MaryLou White of www.wwell.net. I did a bunch of modifying, and here it is.
• Another take at Metallica's logo. Like the one further down the thumbnails, the Metallica logo was made with Corel Motion Studio 3D. Added the "grow" effect. The lightning was made with the Alien Skin Xenofex 2 Photoshop plug-in, Electrify effect. The glow was done with Ulead GIF-X 2.0.
  
  Animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5, using Photoshop CS2 as an external image editor to apply the Electrify filter.
• A revision of my previous Winnipeg Jets 3D logo.
  
  3D model made in Corel Motion Studio 3D. The jet has been given a slight tweak.
  
  To get the previous version of this animation as a Windows screensaver, visit my Downloads page!
• 3D text and fireworks made with Corel Motion Studio 3D. Animation finished up with Ulead GIF Animator 5.5. The font used is "Biohazard Participants."
  
  2021 was not so nice, any hope for 2022 to be an improvement?
• #ForTheW
  
  Yet another animation for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the champions of the 107th and 108th Grey Cup!
  
  A revision of the animation five below this one on the thumbnails column.
  
  This animation was made with Corel Motion Studio 3D (I made a new W from scratch) and Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  Check the Downloads page for a Blue Bombers screensaver (v2) exactly like this animation!
• #ForTheW
  
  The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are the 108th Grey Cup Champions. Congratulations!
  
  A quick redo of the other Grey Cup Champions animation, when they won the 107th Grey Cup!
• Another take at Metallica's logo. The lightning was made with the Alien Skin Xenofex 2 Photoshop plug-in, Electrify effect. The glow was done with Ulead GIF-X 2.0.
  
  Animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5, using Photoshop CS2 as an external image editor to apply the Electrify filter.
• One day many years ago, I was playing around with a Richard Rosenman filter (3d Sphere Generator v1.5) and got an idea.
  
  I made a 3D globe with Ulead GIF-X 2 plug-in, and did a lot of playing with the magic wand, selecting and making transparent, and applying the 3d sphere filter. I had to do it again with a reverse map to do the back side of the globe, which is a separate object.
  
  The second globe has a shadow added to the "front" object.
  
  This is a bit of a tweak on the globe I did for the PhotoImpact International animation, further down the list.
• Yes, another Winnipeg Jets animation. This animation makes use of a nice Photoshop plugin to make that lightning-like effect.
  
  Animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5, using Photoshop CS2 as an external image editor to apply the filter.
• #ForTheW
  
  Another animation for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the champions of the 107th Grey Cup!
  
  This animation was made with Corel Motion Studio 3D (I made a new W from scratch) and Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  Check the Downloads page for a Blue Bombers screensaver almost exactly like this one!!
• #ForTheW
  
  Another animation for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the champions of the 107th Grey Cup!
  
  This animation was made with Corel Motion Studio 3D (I made a new W from scratch) and Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  Check the Downloads page for a Blue Bombers screensaver!
• They should have changed the logo, check the calendar...
• Go Jets Go!
  
  The 3D logo I made a couple years ago, with banner text.
  
  Let's hope the 2021-2022 season is better!
• 3D text and fireworks made with Corel Motion Studio 3D. Animation finished up with Ulead GIF Animator 5.5. The font used is "Biohazard Participants."
• #ForTheW
  
  The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are the 107th Grey Cup Champions. Congratulations!
  
  The 3D text I borrowed from the earlier Blue Bombers animation down the thumbnails list. The rest was done with Ulead GIF Animator 5. The fireworks were added with the Ulead GIF-X 2 plugin. The animation was then saved as an MPEG video file with GA5, then other software was used to convert that video to MP4 format.
• I took a stab at making a 3D logo using Corel Motion Studio 3D. Not exactly what I wanted for a final result, but it will do for now.
  
  To get this animation as a Windows screensaver, visit my Downloads page!
• #ForTheW
  
  An animation for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  
  This animation was made with Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio and Ulead GIF Animator 5.
• The Winnipeg Jets logo.
  
  This animation was made with Ulead GIF Animator 5 with the help of the Ulead GIF-X 2.0 plugin, and a scan effect.
• On November 20, 2006, the world lost a fine animator and a great man.
  
  Garhardt T. "Gary" Hansen, better known among the members of the PhotoImpact International forums as HLV, the Happy Little Viking. He will be greatly missed by us all.
  
  Click the thumbnail to view his tribute page.
  
  The image used for the background is by Markus Gann. http://www.begann.de/
  Viking ship artist unknown.
• 
  
  Three globes - views from the north, the equator, and the south.
• There was a problem with this error message.
  I fixed it.
• The latest installment in the Viking-Wizard wars...
• Created with Ulead GIF Animator 5, using the Banner Text function.
  
  See the Banner Text tutorial by clicking on the thumbnail.
• The phases of the moon.
• Ulead COOL 3D PS was used to create two different globes - a day version and a night one. I used Ulead GIF Animator 5 to combine the two.
• Way back when on the Animation Station Forum, one of the members went by the name "Boopalotta." She was a Betty Boop fan.
  
  So with Ulead COOL 3D and GIF Animator 5, I came up with this, in her honour.
• They're back! The Winnipeg Jets, that is...
  
  This animation was made with Ulead GIF Animator 5. All that was needed was the logo, and the transform tool to flip it over. (Click the thumbnail to learn about the Transform tool.)
  
  The logo was "squeezed" 10 pixels narrower each frame until it was almost a sliver. Note for each frame after the initial one with the unsqueezed logo, the original logo object was duplicated, then transformed. A total of 11 objects are in this animation. The frames were then duplicated and reversed to complete the animation.
• Just having a bit of fun here. I used the UFO and the moon I made with Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio. The animation was assembled in Ulead GIF Animator 5, of course.
  
  The lighting effect on the "beam up" is done by changing the Merge method on a white cone-shaped object.
  
  The viking characters are courtesy Gigi. The image used for the background is by Markus Gann. Click the thumb to visit his site.
• The moon was made with Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio, then the animation was tweaked with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  I found a full map of the moon from NASA, and applied it as a texture to a sphere in C3D PS, then spun it around.
  Now you know what the other side looks like!
• This flaming sword was made with Ulead COOL 3D 3.5. Animation tweaked with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  This is a redone version of the sword that's way down the column of thumbnails.
• One of my favorite metal bands, Savatage. The text object was made with COOL 3D Production Studio, and saved as a transparent .tga file.
  
  It was then opened in Ulead GIF Animator 5, where I did a lot of experimenting with many things, mostly plug-in filters... EyeCandy 4000's Glass effect, and Xenofex 2's lightning, primarily. Liberal use was made of GA 5's Merge Method in the Object Properties. It may be of interest to note that you can apply a filter to just a selected part of an object.
  
  Click the thumbnail to visit Savatage's website.
• The text object was made with COOL 3D Production Studio.
  
  In C3D PS, I rotated the texture used in the inner section of the text.
  
  Saved in C3D PS as image frames in .tga format, and then animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
• Text and zeppelin done in Ulead's COOL 3D Production Studio, then tweaked and animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5 and a plug-in filter from Xenofex.
  
  Original 3D map for the zeppelin is from PlanIt 3D, at http://www.planit3d.com/.
• The Ring was made with COOL 3D Production Studio. The inscription texture used in C3DPS was made with Photoshop 5.5 and Ulead GIF Animator 5. You can find the font used at my Downloads page. The site the font creator, Johan Winge, had it hosted on is no longer available.
  
  The image frames from C3DPS were brought into GA 5, the Gollum image added and edited.
• Constructed with Ulead's COOL 3D Production Studio, tweaked a bit with Photoshop CS2, some plug-in filters, and animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  Original 3D map for the semi is from PlanIt 3D, at http://www.planit3d.com/.
• More fun with COOL 3D PS.
  
  Constructed with Ulead's COOL 3D Production Studio and animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
• More fun fiddling with COOL 3D PS. The lighting effects are most neat!
  
  Constructed with Ulead's COOL 3D Production Studio and animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5. The lamp preset comes with C3D, I added the table and lighting effect. The lighting was tweaked a bit further with GA 5.
• Someone dared me to make a lavalamp. So I did. I'd made a simple one way back when, but this time we went for a bit more.
  
  Constructed with Ulead's COOL 3D Production Studio and GIF Animator 5.
  
  Get out the Pink Floyd collection and enjoy...
• The PhotoImpact International forum unveiled a new banner (still image), and I just had to do an animated version.
  
  I redid that hollow globe all over again. Too much work!
• Just having some fun with Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio.
  
  Thought I would share...
• I got carried away. I started off revisiting that globe animation from long ago... The editing was done mostly in GIF Animator 5.
  
  After much playing with that, I saved it as an AVI file. Then I used the AVI as the image on the display of this laptop, in Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio.
  
  In C3D PS, I saved as individual TGA images and animated it all in Ulead GIF Animator 5.
• More fun playing around. Just like the animation above this one on the thumbs list.
• The text was made with PhotoImpact XL, and the sparkle effect done in Ulead GIF Animator 5 with the help of Harry's Filters.
  
  The turkey was modified from one found on the net (maker unknown). The cornicopia is a denizen of the net as well, the artist of which is also unknown.
• This uses the pumpkin I made a couple years ago with PhotoImpact XL. PhotoImpact's Z-merge feature comes in handy.
  
  Fiddled with it a bit to get a flickering effect. Animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5, of course.
• This is a variation on the animated pen signature... Chalk and a chalkboard instead as you can plainly see. I decided to use Photoshop 5.5 do make the lettering, freehand. It has nice brushes for such things.
  
  Animated with Ulead GIF Animator 5. This one has 99 frames in it. That's just too much work...
• This was done with Ulead COOL 3D PS, Paint Shop Pro 7 with a couple plug-in filters, and Ulead GIF Animator 5. I'm not normally one to do sparkly things, but the Animation Station forum is doing a thing on them... so I joined in.
• This was done with Ulead GIF Animator 5 and a plug-in to do the burnt edges effect.
  
  A bit of work involved here - maybe I'll write a tutorial for it someday. It would be easy if the road was straight!
  
  Someone had inquired on how to do an animation showing a map and the route to point A to point B, so after I gave one answer, which worked for them, I decided to try another way. And here is the result.
  
  Original map by www.thereandbackagain.net.
• This was done using Ulead's COOL 3D PS, GIF Animator 5, plus GIF-X 2. for the scan effect.
  
  Just playing around and having fun.
• This was an awful lot of work...
  
  Done entirely in Ulead GIF Animator 5, with a plug-in used to make the puffy clouds.
  
  The original bike is three times that size, but shrunk for this animation.
• This is my simplified version of the tutorial, Lost in the 50's Signature Tut (Owned & Written by C. File 11/3/04). Click the thumb to see the tutorial.
  
  You probably can't read what's playing while it spins, but that's "Whole Lotta Love" from Led Zeppelin's second album. A classic!
• This is my comeback to a little string of animations (click the thumb to see them). Another storyline in the seemingly never-ending Viking-Wizard wars at the old Animation Station Forum at PhotoImpact International. Those fun posts are no longer available. There are a few in this series...
  
  I quite like the way that "shocking development" turned out. I could watch that over and over!
• This was just for fun. The plate graphics I found at R.T.'s Blank Plates. The site doesn't appear to be active anymore.
  
  The font I found somewhere... it's called "Licenz Plate." I put this together in GIF Animator 5, with a wee bit of help from an EyeCandy 3 filter for the bevelling of the text.
  
  My home province, Saskatchewan is...
• This was inspired by "Cat" from South Dakota. She made the original animation from a tutorial for Paint Shop Pro/Animation Shop, and was wondering how to do that in PhotoImpact. A bunch of us at the PhotoImpact International forum and I redid the "breathing" effect with our own methods.
  
  This one is my version of it. The cat in the picture is Cat's.
• I actually have the fonts for the first two - "Metal Lord" and "Lady Starlight." For the Judas Priest logo, I snagged the image off their website, reduced it, removed the background and added the light scan effect. The Black Sabbath one, since they never seemed to pick a certain font or logo, I just used what seemed like a good idea at the time...
• The balloon was made with Ulead COOL 3D 3.5, then animated, resized and optimized with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  That's the wee village in Saskatchewan I grew up in.
  
  Photographer of the original picture is J. C. Cooper. Pilot, Dean Stockman.
• This was done in Ulead COOL 3D 3.5, and cleaned up and optimized with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  That's where I used to work, the Winnipeg Information Technology Centre. I spiffed up their logo, slapped the flag in the background... and there we are. (I still do the same job, but it's not an ITC anymore. Long story...)
• This was another for the fun of it.
  
  All done in Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  Gotta hate that spyware! :)
• This was one of those things that started off as fiddling around. I'd downloaded a huge package of graphics from the Perfect Dark Zero website Fan Sites page (no longer available) and finally got around to checking it out. I looked at a few items, and got an inspiration...
  
  Most of the work was done with Ulead GIF Animator 5. A lot of tweaking and such was required before I was satisfied enough to consider it finished. I used the Burger's Transitions for one effect, plus a motion blur effect from Eye Candy.
  
  Just have to get the game, now. Well, someday... I still haven't finished all of the original Perfect Dark game. Too much multi-player, not enough time spent on the missions - but my rank is now "2 - Near Perfect" so that isn't too bad...
• This shows what you can do with tweening. Rather handy function, it is.
  
  The water ripple effect was done with a program called "Sqirlz Water Reflections." I saved it as image frames in jpeg format, and brought them into Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  To see how to add the dragon, see the Advanced Tweening tutorial.
• The main Savatage graphic was made with Ulead COOL 3D 3.5. The flames were done with Ulead PhotoImpact XL. All other editing and cleanup was done with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  One of my favourite bands. Awesome... Another animation just for the fun of it.
• This Metallica banner was made with Ulead COOL 3D 3.5. All other editing and cleanup was done with Ulead GIF Animator 5. The old Metallica logo... inspired by their Ride The Lightning album. I saw these guys in concert back in the mid '90's. Awesome show!
  
  Another animation just for the fun of it.
• The flashlight was made with Ulead COOL 3D 3.5. The light effect is courtesy Paint Shop Pro 7. All other editing and cleanup was done with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  Another one for the fun of it.
• The speakers were made with Ulead GIF Animator 5, using Richard Rosenman's Punch plug-in filter to move the speakers. The stereo is a tweaked Winamp classic skin. I got lazy and didn't feel like drawing a stereo from scratch. Maybe later...
  
  A whole three frames for this animation.
• The padlock is made with Ulead PhotoImpact XL, animated and tweaked with Ulead GIF Animator 5.
  
  This is from a tutorial by Rosie of Rosie's PhotoImpact Tutorials. Unfortunately, her site is no longer available.
  
  Rather neat, isn't it? I'll have to play around with PhotoImpact a little more often.
• Just playing around with the eyes. Timing is everything...
• Another episode in the Viking-Wizard wars...
• From an amusing tutorial for Photoshop, but easily done in GA 5. Tweening makes it fly from one side to the other.
  
  The tut is no longer available online.
• This is a modified version of the hollow globe I made previously. Look a little further down the thumbnail list.
• Monitor from COOL 3D preset, biohazard symbol from a wingding font (can't recall which one!). The rest was drawn and animated with GA 5. Just for the heck of it.
• The water area was carefully traced with the lasso tool, and then copied three times. Photoshop was used to distort those copies slightly.
  
  Animated with GA 5.
• Picking on the wizard again.
  
  Marvin was edited with GA 5, the horns made with Ulead COOL 3D. Made him blink by adding black "eyelids" and selecting and copying his left foot. The transform tool then made it tap, so to speak.
  
  The background is from NASA... Thanks, guys!
• What you can do with tweening...
  
  One image has the dark eyes, the second bright blues. Tween the transparency between the two, and there it is.
• This is from a tutorial by Maggie. Her MaCo Graphics site is no longer up, unfortunately, so the tutorial is no longer available.
  
  Nice tutorial, Maggie!
• Another just-for-fun thing to do. The lamp itself is made with Ulead COOL 3D 3.5. The blobs were drawn with GA 5 and bevelled with a plug-in filter.
  
  Animated with GA 5, of course.
  
  Not quite as nice as the lava lamp further up the column...
• Another episode in the Viking-Wizard wars...
  
  I used the Burger's Transitions Flame F/X to set the wizard on fire. The rest was editing a couple skull animations.
  
  The Balrog is a frame capture from The Fellowship of the Ring DVD. Awesome movie!
• This was a just-for-fun thing to do. The numbers were made as a text-ring animation with the banner wizard in Animation Shop 3. That was opened in GA 5, which converts the individual optimized frames to objects. A motion blur plug-in was used to blur some of the text.
  
  The scale body was drawn in PhotoImpact, including the lens over the numbers. The transparency of the lens was adjusted to see the numbers.
  
  The rest is tweaking of the frames in GIF Animator 5.
• The majority of this was made with Ulead COOL-3D 3.5. The candle was found on the web, and the flame I also made with COOL-3D.
  
  The fine-tuning and perfecting was done with GA 5. Adding the candle, the flame, the hand, the shadow border, plus some cutting and pasting of coffin parts to make it easier to do.
  
  The hand I cropped, reduced, and touched up from a gif found on the web.
  
  The hardest part was making the coffin in COOL-3D - I haven't had a lot of chance to play around with complex 3-D compositions. But trial and error pays off in the end!
• The pumpkin I made with Ulead PhotoImpact XL, the background is from www.3dtotal.com.
  
  Animating the pumpkin is easy. Drawing it was a learning exercise!
• I was playing around with a Richard Rosenman filter (3d Sphere Generator v1.5) one day, and got an idea.
  
  I made a 3d globe with Ulead GIF-X 2 plug-in, and did a lot of playing with the magic wand, selecting and making transparent, and applying the 3d sphere filter. I had to do it again with a reverse map to do the back side of the globe, which is a separate object. That's why I could sandwich the helmet in there.
  
  Lots of work, but a cool result!
• This was made using GIF-X 2 Plugin and GA 5. The page is a scan of something I wrote using J. R. R. Tolkien's Elvish alphabet, the Tengwar. (I do calligraphy, too.)
  
  The file size of this gif is a bit big at 181 Kb.
• Ain't it the truth?
• The water ripples were made with a program called Reflet.
  
  The editing of the images and frames was done with GA 5. The original still picture can be found at www.savinoff.com.
• Just for fun...
  
  The shadow is made by using the circle selection tool with the soft edge, then filled with black. To adjust the shadow size, duplicate the shadow, and adjust the size of the duplicate in the Object Properties.
• This shows what you can do by adjusting the transparency setting on the Object Manager, and tweening with that handy "Tween" function on the Frame Panel.
  
  In the uga file for this, there is a black object behind the face, so the face darkens a little when you adjust the transparency a small amount. White circle objects for the eyes were added. The transparency for the eyes is what is tweened.
• No matter what Microsoft comes up with for an operating system, there are always critical updates and patches for the security holes and flaws that are discovered.
  
  Maybe a Mac isn't such a bad idea!
• This was easy! I used the "Burger-Char" Video F/X plug-in, which you can download from my Downloads page (Burger's Transitions).
  
  This animation proves there are no real wizards... just computer-generated illusions!
• This animation uses the "Tween" effect to move the balls. The "Transform" tool was used to rotate the "8" in the middle of the 8-ball. The balls don't actually rotate, as the lighting highlights would look wrong.
  
  A white rectangular matte is also tweened along with the 8-ball. Underneath that matte is the text. GIF Animator 5's use of object-based animation makes this job fairly easy.
  
  The original concept for this belongs to an MSN Groups member known as "Largs®."
• This was fun to do!
  
  I took a still picture of Marvin and used the lasso tool to trace around his arm. Then I cut and pasted to make a new object (the arm). I duplicated it twice, and used the Transform tool to rotate each duplicate 10 degrees - one clockwise, one counterclockwise. I erased the pole he was holding and replaced it with the sword.
  
  I made him blink by making a couple black oval eyelids. The teeth are borrowed from you-know-where... The horns and the sword I made with Ulead COOL 3D. The head he's bouncing? Well, it belongs to that scoundrel whizzerd, Barlekis...
• I made the UFO with Ulead COOL 3D. The background is a digital creation I made long ago with something called Genesis II.
  
  The beam effect was made by using the lasso to trace out the shape, then using the fill tool to color in the green with a transparency of about 50.
  
  The wizard? Barlekis, of course.
• This was drawn and animated with GA 5, and bevelled in Paint Shop Pro 7 for a 3D look.
• This is another example of the Hue & Saturation effect in the Video F/X menu.
• Explosion effect by Ulead Cool 3D v. 3.5.
  
  The extra "red bits" were added using Ulead's Particle Plug-in - the "Fire" effect. The glow around Yoshi was added with Photoshop 5.5.
• This animation uses the Power Off-F/X effect found under Video F/X on the Standard toolbar, in the F/X sub-menu. The effect is used twice in this animation.
• "VIKING" text object was made, positioned, then the Split Text was used to make a text object for each letter. Each text object then selected on the Object Manager, and the Distribute to Frames function used.
  
  Additional frames were added to flesh out the animation.
• This is simple Banner Text with the Neon effect, with the text set as transparent.
• Click the thumbnail to see the tutorial!
• This is a simple animation. It was assembled from bitmap images in an old chess program.
  
  The main picture was opened, and the subsequent pictures were added using the "Add Image" function. The various objects were dragged into position, and the frame delay adjusted to taste.
• Made by starting with a blank animation, then adding the guy at the PC and the file folder with Add Image. Then Banner Text is added (click the first frame before you click Add Banner Text). Neon was the effect used, as you can see.
  
  When using Neon, the Enter Scene and Exit Scene settings are set to Still. The number of frames for each should be at least the same value as the Neon glow width. If things don't look right, you can always go back and edit it by using Edit Banner Text found under Frame on the Standard toolbar. Make sure you have the banner text object selected on the Object Manager.
• Text was made using a two-color gradient. Then the Video F/X Hue & Saturation (found under Darkroom) effect was used.
  
  The resulting frames were all selected and duplicated. The order of the duplicated frames was reversed to complete the animation.
• The dreaded "pen siggy" - the concept is simple. Start with text, duplicate it, erase a little bit, move the pen. Repeat until the name is completely erased. Reverse the order of all the frames. Done.
  
  Of course, you can end up with over 70 frames if you do a nice job... Simple in concept. Tedious in execution.
• This little porker started life as a still jpeg picture. I used GIF Animator 5's lasso tool to trace around his arm. I then cut and pasted, which gave me a new object. I also cut & pasted the eyebrows and that thing at his elbow.
  
  The main picture had to be retouched to fill in the gap from the missing arm. GA 5 was used for that.
  
  To animate the arm, I made two copies of it. The Transform tool's Rotate function was used for this. One arm was rotated x degrees clockwise, and the other x degrees counterclockwise. I set the center point of the rotation to the tip of his elbow.
  
  A shadow was added to the arm objects for a nice touch.
• This animation features banner text with the zoom-in entrance and fade-out exit.
  
  The globe was an existing animation that was added with Add Image.
• A simple animation... The pumpkin is a text object made with a Hallowe'en Wingding font. It was beveled in Photoshop.
  
  The eyes are red "." text objects with a yellow neon glow.
• This is similar to the dragon animation eight up the list from this one. This was easier, though, as no lasso tool was needed.
  
  Instead, two pictures were used - the original, and a mirror image of it. The mirror image was animated with the Mirror effect in the Video F/X menu. The Ocean Ripple filter was applied to make it look a bit more realistic.
• Made entirely with GA 5.
  
  For a tutorial on how to make a smiley like this, click the thumbnail.
• Believe it or not, the sword was drawn with GA 5. It consists of four objects - the blade, the hand guard and pommel, the grip, and the groove in the blade. It was then taken to an external image editor. Paint Shop Pro's Sculpture effect was used to give the metal parts their shiny, 3D look. A texture fill and bevel fleshed out the grip. The animated lighting effect was done with Ulead's GIF-X 2 Plugin. The effect I used is "Scan."
• This was made the hard way. A jpeg picture of the earth was opened in GA 5. The oval selection tool was used to make a circular selection area. Then copy and paste made a new object of what was in the selection area. The selection area is then moved over a few pixels, and you copy and paste again. Repeat...
  
  Then a plug-in "punch" effect is used on each object to bulge it out. Then the "Distribute to Frames" function is used.
  
  Lots of work. Ulead's GIF-X 2 Plugin has a sphere effect to do all this work for you, but this was something I had to try to do, just for the challenge.
• Web Animation 2 was the MSN Community/Group site that helped fuel my animation addiction... This is one of the logos I made for it.
  
  This animation made use of several of GA 5's toys. The Video F/X Run and Stop Push brings the text in from the left. Then the neon is applied. Finally, the Gate-3D effect drops the text down.
• This combines two animations - a basic neon banner text with the ring animations.
  
  The text ring was made with Paint Shop Pro. It was animated with GA 5 by duplicating it several times, and using the Rotate function of the Transform tool. The "2" in the middle is banner text that was added to it.
  
  Note that when combining animations like this, you must make sure they both have the same number of frames, or that one has twice the frames as the other. If you don't, then things won't look quite right.
• OK, I'm picking on Microsoft. Who doesn't? A small price for Microsoft to pay for a huge share of the market...
  
  Every time they upgraded their MSN Group (formerly known as Community) sites, glitches & bugs mess the sites up for days. Of course, they closed those down years ago.
  
  Basic editing of an existing animation MSN created.
• Very basic animation to pay tribute to a great piece of freeware. Composed in GA 5, bevelled in Photoshop.
  
  Click the thumbnail to visit the IrfanView site. (There's a link to this site on his Nice WWW Links page. Thanks, Irfan! https://www.irfanview.com/main_links_engl.htm)
• This is a simple animation, once you learn GA 5's tools.
  
  Part of the typewriter was copied and pasted to make a new object to cover the paper. Text was made then split with the "Split Text" command.
  
  A blank frame was added with just the paper and text, then the Flatten Frame as Single object was used to combine the text and paper. This made moving the paper and text up easier. That frame then had the rest of the objects added.
• This is a more detailed and thus harder to make typewriter animation.
  
  Lots of work! Notice the proper keys move as the name is typed. Too tedious, this was.
  
  Don't try this at home, kids. Your wrist and hand will never be the same.
• OK, this one was lots of work.
  
  This was taken from Rosie's Word Play tutorial (no longer available) for Ulead PhotoImpact 8 and Ulead GIF Animator 5, but I used only GA 5. The wee little tiles were duplicated from one original tile. A shadow was added to the tile for a nice touch.
  
  The complete text was made, then split, and each text object combined with a tile as a single object.
  
  The rest is positioning and timing.
  
  Want to have a game of Scrabble? Try this out... A Scrabble board complete with 100 letter tiles. Just add frames and arrange the letters. Get the zipped UGA file from my Downloads page.

All animations made with Ulead GIF Animator 5. Some images edited or created with Corel Motion Studio 3D, Adobe Photoshop 5.5 or CS2, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, IrfanView, Ulead COOL 3D, Ulead PhotoImpact XL and/or Ulead GIF-X 2 Plugin.

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