ok not sure if this has been brought up or not but i didnt see it...
does anyone know how to make those small animated cars???
i wanna olds cutty supreme like mine but i dont think anyone made one so i wanna make it myself but dont know how....if its too hard to do then im not gonna even try...

yeah, those things are tough to make, because you have to make it look right, lol. I suggest that you take one that was already made, and strip it down to an outline. Change the outline and make it look more like the car that you want. After that add in the door lines, windshield lines, bumpers, lights, etc....

I hope that possibly might have helped, lol.

omicron what program do you use? and did u make that avatar? looks nice

yeah, I made my avatar, and I use photoshop to make these things. :biggrin: The pic in my avatar was for a competition at gtplanet.com.
recently I just finished this skyline :)
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/172skylineNEW.gif
with this being the origional. ;)
http://www.50mb.net/~hiroko/drift/bcnr33-lm.gif
& also
http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/172infinitygif.gif
with this as the origional.
http://www.50mb.net/~hiroko/drift/v35g.GIF
and last but not least.
http://www.railegelbvieh.com/upload/uploaded/badarse.gif
with this as the origional...
http://www.cargifs.co.uk/d155rx7.gif

These are all previews of what can be done in photoshop... Have fun with them.

those are awesome. now heres the million dollar question. How? :confused:

and what if i want to make a car and dont have a template to go off of? how do i make one from scratch?
is there an option in photoshop to animate gifs?

sorry if i ask a lot of dumb questions but my experience in photoshop is a bit limited. only been doin this a couple of months so i'm still learning.

thanks,
kevin

no problems with the questions, when I started out I asked a lot of them too. I've been using photoshop for years, so I don't expect you to know everything yet, lol.

You can take one of the origionals that I have posted up there, and get out your pencil tool (2nd option to the brush tool). Make a new layer, hold alt and click on the color you want, and erase the inside of the car. Then you can make another layer and erase the top outline of the car and redraw it to simulate the car that you want. Basicly use your imagination, you can create any car you want. Make a custom one, car, truck, whatever, just keep it around the same resolution as these.

I hope that somewhat helped, and thanks for the compliment.

thanks for the tutorial omicron. i gave it a try. it came out horrible. well not horrible but not good. i made a car but it didnt really look like the car i wanted. i got another question though. how do u animate the gifs? when i open a gif in shop it says i can only look at one frame at a time. how do i look at the other frames? what version of photoshop are you using?

thanks,
kevin

just right click on the .gif and save it. Then open it up in imageready.. it comes with photoshop 7. and maybe even 6, I forget.(you can open imageready by clicking the button on the bottom of the toolbar, it has a paper pointing an arrow to another paper.)

basicly your going to have to go to the help in imageready, cause it's too much explaining for me to tell you how to make an animation, lol.

btw I have a new addition. I made gullwings for my rx-7, also made it a convertable. :biggrin: http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/172sickofjaggededge.jpg