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3 hints...

1. Shoot the scene on a plain background. GIF compression for images uses the same colour palette for each frame... the MORE complexity, the more bytes needed. The background is adding complexity, ergo, more bytes.

2. Write 'Delude' in a colour which falls in the same pallete, but contrasting it's background, as the image. i.e. adding red adds bytes... so it white, because this colour is common across all frames.

3. Add a black border of 5 pixels around all the frames. This will reduce the amount of bytes needed per-image, as solid colours compress better.

I could do it for you, but being honest, I have much better things to do

Yeah don't worry about it, i think i'll use Robs. I wanted it to look like a normal picture, and thenall of a sudden he takes his face off, that's why it rests for so long. It's a poort attempt at a gif made using only free tools

Good man!

I've been playing around with gifs and compression since the mid 90's, and they've always been a frustration... gifs were never meant to show pictures with any quality, let alone animations!

It's always remained a shame that the simple JPEG format never had a fast gif-like animation option (NOT like MPEG) which uses frames, because JPEGs are far better at capturing/compressing photographs.

Yeah, GIFs are a pain. You need to cut down the amount of frames to get the file size smaller.

About your siggy, the colours are a bit 'in your face'.