User blog comment:Makallus/Deco GIFs/@comment-5116140-20120814213513

Hi Makallus, Great Dino Animations

Just checked your Sabretooth and MesoHippus animations.

They look great and play great on my Mac using Safari. Well done!

One thing I don't understand is the advantage of using these plists and large png in the first place. Why do animators do this?

Isn't there a coding cost to constantly clipping out the subimage you need for each new frame of the animation. It seems to require extremely meticulous care to clipout each subimage with just the exact coordinates, and so easy to make mistakes leading to mangled frames. I must be missing something.

Is a plist with its large png (holding all the animation frames) just a way to keep all the frame images together much like a wedding album?