How to create tip-animations generally:

1) download a GIF/FLI/FLC/TIF/... ani or a MPG/MOV/AVI/FLV/... movie from the internet (ripping, ripping,ripping...)

2a) if its an ani then extract all the frames from it (I use Irfan View for that) or convert it into AVI format (e.g. with Super)...
2b) if its a movie, convert it to a "standard" AVI format and then extract all frames from it (I use Eright-Soft`s Super for that, since Irfan View will only extract frames from AVI movies; it can play a lot of other movie formats, but it will not extract any frames then; Irfan View can extract GIF anis easily, but it cannot display or extract FLI/FLC anis, unless they have been converted to AVI)...

3) when extracted, the frames should now be in JPG, BMP or PNG format (not GIF!), so you can use TipConv 1.1.1 by Epi to convert all frames at once into TIP format. 

4) NOTE: Allthough TIP and Tipconv. allow 160x119 pixels resolution, the tip animator only uses/displays 160x100 pixels, so better downsize the JPG, BMP, PNG frames to 160x100 pixels or smaller (I use XnView for that); to have an even smaller screen, one can downsize the frames even further (say 80x50 or whatever size you want) - but then one should add a black border around the frames, so that the frames plus borders do have the standard size of 160x100 again... (this can be done with Batch-processing in XnView too)...

5) when all frames have been converted into TIP format, one can use the tip animator 2.9 or tip animator 2xb to create the tip animation (therefore, I start the WIN XP DOS/Input prompt/Commandline, go to the relevant subdir and start the tip animator)...

Well, thats it in short. Of course I am playing around with the frames or the tip animations quite often, when the result is not as good as I wish. Besides changing the options in tipconv. and watching the different results in the tip ani, I also change the size often (full-screen 160x100, smaller screen 120x80, smaller screen 100x70, smallest screen 80x50 or other resolutions, like 100x100, 80x80, 70x70, etc.), convert to greyscale (if the colors are bad on the A8; but when using greyscale, I always have to darken the frames) or if everything fails, I re-paint some part of the frames (sky, water, grass, or just the top or bottom of the frames; most of the time I use GIMP for that, but I also have other PAINTing programs)...