i tried slowing it down... and even .01 sec slower seemed too slow

ahh, alright.
it is very good, regardless. nice work, i've seen how hard animation looks, be very proud, this turned out well ^ ^

because it would be impossible to have it run forever... this is a GIF not a flash! i used adobe image ready, and if i were to make the background go on forever, then i would need to make an infinite about of frames. so ya, impossible

I'll be the first to admit I haven't dabbled with anything remotely related to animated GIFs since last millennium, but I seem to recall an Endless Loop setting back then.

Infinite amount of frames really shouldn't be necessary. I'm thinking here of the trick used in old cartoons for walking down a long hallway while talking - just repeat the same door and window over and over. Of course, with a more detailed background, this becomes more difficult to achieve.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that next time you make an animation like this, try to strive for a background that would loop on its own, and then make it fit in speed to the character animation.

what else do u want me to do? its the same pic moved slightly to the left 8 times.

But is the picture itself looping?

Imagine if you had a picture that, from left to right, shifted through the color spectrum, but only halfway - it stops somewhere around a nice, grassy green. If you were to shift that to the side (8 frames, 12.5% of the image width shifted per frame) you would start to see the flaw quite quickly, when red would suddenly follow green to the right.

It's the same with more complicated backgrounds; the left edge should be able to seamlessly attach to the right edge, otherwise your audience will see the seam. I imagine you have each layer of this saved separately; try making a quick line art of a couple of rolling hills, and use that as a background for testing.

I hope you're not taking offense to all this - I think you're one of the best artists on YiffStar, and this is only meant as constructive criticism.

yes, the enitre pic is looping. its 8 different wolf pics, with 8 different backgrounds, and 8 different piles of snow. its just 8 whole pics put together to make it look like its moving. its not a movie, its not a flash. its just a GIF of 8 drawings