Client Requirement: Spinning Image

[mgasparel]

My client is reqesting that I attempt some sort of animation for his site. He has given me roughly 200 still frames that he wants converted into an animation that will be embedded in a webpage.

I doubt a .gif would work for this purpose, what do you think?
Is there a way I could do this in flash?
I could always make an avi of it and embed that, but I'd prefer something that would start to play on load and that I can set to loop.

Does anyone have any avice or ideas? I'm a fairly technical person, and am not afraid of learning something new to make this work.

 

[adamblan]

Well, frame based animation tools like the Flash IDE or ImageReady work on the same principle as a flip book comic, the only real difference is the format of the output (.swf or .gif).
I'd do this in flash - since 200 frames is gonna take a minute or 2 to download, a pre-loader might be a good idea...