GIF ANIMATIONS:

Here are some of my GIF animations. This page may take a while to load due to the size of the animations. I made this page separate from the Computer Art page for these animations because they can take a while to load.

If you're new to web development or imaging, you might wonder why some images are shown on white backgrounds and some on black. The reason for this is because I made the originals for a specific background color, and they have been anti-aliased for it. To see what happens when you put an image that was anti-aliased for one background color onto a different background, here's the Wsmnew.gif animation, shown on this page's dark background.

The only instance where this has no effect on image quality is when the image is perfectly rectangular (the same shape as the pixel grid in your monitor). The FlagMelt.gif file will look good on any background because of this. To compensate for this ugly anti-aliasing effect demonstrated above, use a good image editing program which has anti-aliasing built in. I use Animation Shop(free with Paint Shop Pro) or Cool 3D for my animations, and both of them anti-alias images. Only programs with few features, such as Windows Paint (which is free, after all), do not.

Some of these animations are meant as jokes to make fun of the billions of awards available on the web. Feel free to award these to your site or to sites that you find annoying! I've always found it amusing when a site lists a large number of awards, since it is so easy to make them and have them awarded. I've also found it annoying to visit a site that is a pile of electronic garbage with no organization, poor color choices, or HTML problems. The humorous awards here were made for sites like that.