How I Made
the 2 Animations of the First Wrestling Movie
and Technical Info on the Results

  1. The strips of frames were copied from
    http://www.concentric.net/~alomark/moveindex.shtml
    Thursday 4 Feb. 1999 where it is called Crossface Cradle.
  2. In Paint Shop Pro, I copied each of the 10 frames from the strip into individual jpegs.
  3. Then for my 1st animation:
    1. I duplicated the 1st frame & wrote Begin on it & copied the last frame & wrote End on it.
    2. I put the frames together as a gif in Animation Shop, making it slower & repeat continuously.
    3. Resulting in a gif 120 pixels wide with a begin frame, end frame, & 10 frames in between. The frames are .85 seconds apart. The movie is 118,851 bytes.
  4. Then for my 2nd animation:
    1. I doubled the size of each frame
    2. I duplicated the 1st frame & wrote Begin on it & copied the last frame & wrote End on it.
    3. I put the frames together as a gif in Animation Shop, making it slower & repeat continuously.
    4. Resulting in a gif 240 pixels wide
      This gif movie has a begin frame, end frame, & 10 frames in between. The frames are .90 seconds apart. The movie is 343,881 bytes. For the following modems, it requires the following time to download:
      Modem
      Speed       		Time
      required
      min. sec.
      14.4 K 4 8
      28.8 K 2 4
      56 K 1 3
      ISDN 0 28
    Help bring more animated gifs to this web page.
    My next goal is to buy a Snappy 3.0 parallel port capture device & put some "movies" (animated gifs) of Highland Wrestling on the web.  I have lots of video tape of Highland Wrestling.  Snappy makes much clearer sharper stills than the video capture cards according to AOL's Animation & Video Forum & Team.  So my plans are to buy a Snappy capture device and put on this web site, animated gifs that are better in 2 ways than the one shown here now.  The animated gifs I make will be sharper & I plan to use 2 or 3 times more frames (stills).  If you are anxious to see animated gifs of Highland Wrestling, you all can make that happen faster by sending donations of $5 or $10 or whatever to me, James W. Green III -- 285 Agnew Road -- Winnsboro SC 29180 or to discuss it, write me at     JamesWGreen@Juno.Com.  The Snappy capture device to do this costs about $140 & I am unemployed.  For you generous folks, I am willing to change animated gifs' size & speed to suit you.

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