Remember that I do not try to rate or mean any negative about what you
enjoy, or whatever the best you can do etc.. but I can tell you that *if*
you can't be able to keep the size small then you may need to improve you
technique.

    Also, I can't help you with the vision of art, I can't help you with
English because even more than 40 years learning daily non-stop my English
level can easily be beaten by 4-5th grader.  But *if* you can understand my
English (or the technique I am trying to share with you), then who knows you
may understand the technique I am gonna share with you.

    And a little history if you won't mind <bg> back in around mid 90's I was
helping few folks with graphic and animated GIF (political) so I have
developed some technique's to keep the size as smallest as possible.  And
you are looking at average 200-300K max (some smaller and some a little
larger but not much).

    So here is some detailed information hoping it may help you or other who
may interest in impressing other <bg>

- Since color GIF (especially 256 colors) can be very large, or much larger
than JPG file.  So this is what you may need to do.

    - Try to reduce the number of color until it looks almost as good as the
      original JPG.  And depending on the original the number of color can be
      64-128+

- And because color GIF file can be very large so you DO NOT want to use the
whole image, but only the animated section.

    - Example you have a whole picture of a man, and you only want his eyes
     (example) to blink then you DO NOT want another full image with the eyes
     modified, but you only want to EYES only.  And this may be few Ks
     instead of 200-300K

    _And create as many smaller parts as you can, then replace them to the
     area you want to replace (animate)

- Also, I was using the discontinued GIF Animator v4.x by Uleads.

P.S.  I didn't go through all of yours, but just the first one and checking
the SIZE of the GIF animated was the first thing I did, and I think it's
around 2.4MB or so. which is way too big for technique wise.

Yes its brilliant, it doesn't work. Probably for the best.