what is aa anyway? never knew what that was... whats it stand for?
Anti Aliasing (sp?) A technique to make rough edges look tasty and smooth.
Bitmaps are far too large for net use (from what I understand) .gif is good, but I use .png.
BTW, what program did you use to make this? The "wrinkles" look auto AA'd.
Also, I dunno if this is a side effect of the unfortunate conversion, but the lines look a bit messy. A good start, from what I can see, but a little cleanin' up could do it some good. Keep at it.