I have an animated gif. I need to modify it, but I think I'm on a right track. I should be able to make a kind of animation I need to make. However, here's a question. q1. Right now, this animation has 13 frames, and it looks a bit rough. If I increase the number of frames to, say, uh, 25 frames, is it going to make a nice smooth animation? q2. Also ... if I make this same animation in Flash, is going to make it smoother? What I mean to ask is this. Does using Flash simply make animations smoother than animated gif animations?
Depends on your Understanding of 'Smoother'. Flash Output can be great or cannot be, depending on the Animation and its Tweening, the same is the case with Animated .Gif. If you introduce more frames, then the animation can be made a little slow and a little more what you can say Visible. That could be done in .Gif as well. You just need to know what you are doing. So my Answer would be that you can use both Flash or your .GIF Creation software to animate the way you want. Flash is a little more dependent of Flash players, but the content output is generally worth it, otherwise for general Internet Usage .GIF are mostly preferred. Smoothness can be done in both the forms.
It might help also if you can show us the animation. Although I understand you may not want to if its a site that hasn't gone public yet.
The following is what I have right now: (Please click the link http://www.cre8iveonline.com/tmzgroup4/images/tmz.gif if you can't see it.)
and probably you can lower the number of colors to 64 or even as low as 32 and keep decent quality and smaller size.
Ok, now there is a problem. I created this gif animation after I read a couple of tutorials and ran some experiments. Looks fine and I'm pretty satisfied. I can fine-tune it, but I don't think I need to use a 3D modeling application like Xara3D and Blender for this. However, ... however, ... there is a problem. Works just fine in Firefox, but it stops working when I play this with another animation in IE. What do I do about this ...??? Also does Flash handle something like this, i.e., playing different animations, better than gif animations?
Flash can certainly handle something like that...but I would not discount the animated gifs just yet. I have far more experience with flash than I do with animated gifs, but it seems to me there ought to be a way to make the animated gifs work for you in IE as well. Hopefully someone else will have an idea or two...