Eric Animations: ALL OF 'EM!

[Waran]

yorgle wrote:
I'd love to know the work flow/process used to create this version of the animations for the web.  I've got some files I'd like to put online like this, rather than converting them to video and back again.

The applet used on this site is able to play original Amiga IFF ANIM files directly, you don't need to convert your files.

It plays ANIM-5, ANIM-7, ANIM-8 and ANIM-J codecs and supports all Amiga display modes (OCS, ECS and AGA). You can download ANIMApplet for free and use it for your own web projects.

ANIM files can be compressed (zipped) to reduce loading time. With this technique the clips will load almost immediately, like Flash movies. The zipped ANIMs you may find at the bottom of each page is actually the file the applet is playing.

BTW  the applet can even handle the 'Pingpong' mode of ancient ANIM-J files. Check this out:
The classic Byte-by-Byte demo Kahnankas from 1987!

[Waran]

I am always looking for great animations for this site. I am very interested in classics from the early years of the Amiga and work that showed off the major graphics capabilities of the Amiga in that time.

The goal of the site is to show amazing clips created with Amiga computers. I am also interested in new stuff. Unfortunately original ANIM source files are hard to find, because these days they usually are converted into other video formats. In many cases the converted files become huge and the images often look very blurry or have ugly compression glitches.

Let me know if you do have awesome ANIMs that are missing here or clips you would love to see on this page.