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Motion pictures are just "animated", meaning, they are just a succession of pictures displayed in a common frame. Every picture is displayed after some delay in milliseconds. Movies use 20 frames per second, so the delay must be 50 (50 x 20 frames = 1000). One second will have 1000 milliseconds.

Paul Law (http://vvcool.com/animator9) shares a simple Windows program for doing animation of JPG or BMP images. JPG images are saved from digital cameras, while bitmap (BMP) images are saved from Microsoft Paint or similar/simple programs for editing images. If you want to draw and demonstrate a step-by-step process, animation using BMP images is for you.

First you should have individual pictures ready. It is best that they have a common size. Be aware that large picture sizes result to large files, which can slow down the viewing of your pages. Resize your pictures so that the features you want displayed are just visible. If using Paint, save the BMP image using at most 256 colors, as this is the color scheme for GIF images. As you will see below, one product of this technique is a GIF image.

Download and unzip (un-compress) the Animator9 program from here.

Load the animator9.exe by double-clicking on it. This front page will appear:

front page

You can either open an existing JPG (already animated by this program), or stitch a new animation file. The stitch button will open the next window:

stitch

Browse to the folder containing your images then add the photos to the frame list. Adjust the frame width as needed. The quality of 75 is already a good quality, so no need to change this. (My own experience was that I could not use a width as small as 20, so you may have to use a much wider width.) Clicking on Done will save your work to a JPG file and bring you to the next window:

control

Uncheck Rewind and click on the Control button to change the Frame Delay and Loop Delay values. Click on the Play play button to test the animation. Adjust the delay values as needed, and when finished, click on the Make button to save the new GIF (animated) file.

Use the resulting GIF animated file in your Web page by uploading it to your site, selecting a page to edit, then inserting the new GIF in that page.

Now your Web page contains motion pictures!