My TG Sequence

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Flango- Actually, I did a version with the raspberry first, but with the tounge only being in one frame I felt it was still too choppy and edited the tounge out in paintshop. See below for that version. More power to you if you can manage a transitional frame for the tounge; I felt the image was too small and fuzzy to show it clearly.

Genderhazard- The wink is not a two frame animation- It has three transitional frames just for the eyelid, which I think Flango all made himself. The winking animation I posted has eight frames all together, and the one below has nine.

I'm not clear on how much you understand about animation in general, and I was trying hard not to patronize in my post- but maybe I should be more thorough.

Originally Posted by Genderhazard

...since these images are very close together, wouldn't morphing prolong the process and assist with the frames per second to give the gif a more fluid rather than flip book appearance?

A GIF animator program strings together a series of GIFs and makes them a single file, which web browsers then display sequentialy. The user can determine the length of time each frame appears. This means that an animation with five frames can last 5 seconds or .05 seconds.

The smoothness of the animation depends on how many frames you show per second; to give a 5 second animation more frames-per-second, you need more frames total, showing finer stages of the same action over the same length of time. I am assuming your idea is to use a morphing program to generate those additional frames. Using the word 'prolong' kind of threw me off, but I guess you were refering to the tendency of people making process sequences into animated GIFs to make those GIFs run really fast- they don't actually have to do this. My animation below has fewer frames than Flango's original- it just stops on one frame for 4 seconds.

Originally Posted by Genderhazard

I don't know if you can mix morphs and Gifs

GIFs are limited to 256 colors, but a decent graphics program will reduce the color depth of any digital image and convert it to GIF format, with varying results- and any set of GIFs with the same dimensions can then be strung together into an animated GIF. You can also export the frames of a video as stills and then convert those to GIFs, and then animate them. Morphing programs to my understanding generally output video files, but it shouldn't be hard to get a set of stills from one.

Composing animated GIFs is extremely easy- people use them because they are versatile and portable- but they are not a great medium for quality.

If you are looking to commision someone to make a quality animated sequence, you will probably get a much better final product working with Adobe Flash; Flash's vector graphics are ideal for showing smooth transformations. I don't know how many flash artists hang around The Process, but Smith 6x7 might be a good place to start- he has animated other people's sequences many times before, and maybe he can recommend someone else if he's not interested.

Meanwhile, I'm going to go look for a free morphing program.