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Im bragging: anybody like MY 844 Gif?

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Im bragging: anybody like MY 844 Gif?
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 8:54 PM
Im getting better at my Gifs, Ive gone from:

Now Im to:
and ,
and

If anybody wants to use these in your signatures or somewhere, just ask.

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Posted by Kozzie on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 9:11 PM
Hey Trainheartedguy! [;)] [:)] Now it looks more like a train screensaver I once had! [:)] heh heh [:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 9:51 PM
I like them. I suppose there's really no good reason why[?][?][?] all the rest are moving and UP is standing still??!?[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][bow][(-D][(-D][:-,]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 10:48 PM
That's pretty cool, how long does it take to make one of those?

I remember a long time ago I got a little program that helped you make animated gifs, but I was never any good at it.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 10:53 PM
It took some practice, I use a freeware program called The Gimp. The little tom thumb took about 20 minutes, UP 844 took about an hour and a half (done in steps).

The reason the UP is still is because having the driving rod and smoke and have something that big MOVE would be twice as much time & planning.

If u want to try, do a search for "The Gimp for Windows" or "Gimp for Mac" depending on your OS. Ill just warn you that it takes a while to get used to, and each frame is a seperate "Layer"
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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:17 AM
Can you slow the first one down so I can see it better?

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Posted by Willy2 on Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:45 AM
Pretty cool! I like the Conrail one best.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:47 AM
mookie, that was my first one, and to slow it down would most likely mean re-creating it [:(], but Ill see what I can do

As soon as I finish, I will put up my Santa Fe Superchief[:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:04 PM
Here is my new Santa Fe Superchief. My neck is now as red as the cabs since I made this while out in the sun. [:D]


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Posted by jeaton on Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:09 PM
THG

Those are really cool.

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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:21 PM
Those are really cool,especially the Super chief.[:D]Got any SP Black Widows[?]
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