Help with simple animations for a home page image

[Picklesthedoodler]

Greetings all, 

I am building a small website through Squarespace to replace my old one. My home page is an image I drew, then traced into Adobe Illustrator, now I need to add color, I'll probably use Photoshop. When finished I will have some very simple parts of my illustration animated, like a shadow figure of a person moving, or a star moving across a screen for an example. 

What's the best way to tackle this, as far as software? I imagine saving it as a gif then? I've done this but its been years and looking for the best and simplest route. 

Thanks for your help in advance, 

Phillip

[kglad]

well, animate can create you're home page because it can publish html/js files.

or, if you want to integrate that animation into your home page a gif may be adequate, and animate can publish that too.

p.s. animate can also publish video, and after effects is designed to add effects to video.

[Nicktendo28]

Gifs are great. Just use them. 

[_keyframer]

GIF, as others said, will work but it depends on how big/reponsive your site is and quality of the image/animation. Need to see your actual design I think.