Making Smilies (so nag <s>Aeson</s> <s>Ming</s> ME to install)

[Sava]

She wouldn't get it. Came over from Bosnia in '95. Never got any of my American childhood references.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

sigh

Post me a Kermit head, preferably drawn, and I'll take care of it, Mom.

If you want the gun, you gotta add it yourself.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

A simple animation

So, back to school.

To demonstrate the simplest of two-frame .gif animations, I took the still black-and-white teddy bear, an absolutely innocent example that I posted in the OP, and commenced to make a second layer.



That's a simple right-click on the thumbnail in the Layers box>Duplicate Layer, resulting in



The idea was to make Teddy wave, so I redrew the arm a little:



and also made the changes you can see in the Layers text to the right od the frame icon. 300ms is slightly under a third of a second, and (replace) does the obvious. (If Teddy was still, but blinking, I'd use combine, and erase most of the redundant pixels for the frame. I'll be back shortly with a demonstration.)

[Sava]

yes, i know how to use photoshop

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Can you do one that's like a nice princess in a pink dress spreading glitter and rainbows in her fairy wake?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Or one that's like a nice baby panda being cute and sleepy in a bed of flowers and pixies?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Or one like a 40-something Englishman vomiting himself inside-out?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I could if I wanted to. Why do you ask?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Because if you can't, we might have to resort to communicating via the medium of words.

[100% Wolf]

But most of the world's population can't understand what your words mean. It's clear what a dancing piece of red broccoli with a bald human head holding some sort of hammer is supposed to communicate.

[Sava]

yeah some evil red dancing dildo and his friends have a synchronized dancing army of evil red dildos and are about to ruin your weekend

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Because if you can't, we might have to resort to communicating via the medium of words.

Funny; I actually don't use the things much myself - but other people like them, and they make fun projects.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Still Teaching Sava How To Use Photoshop

To make Teddy blink, I reloaded the basic model, duplicated the layer, selected the dupe and blacked out the eyes.



Then I made the base layer visible so I could see where the eyes had been, but left the dupe layer selected, while I used the select tool to make the smallest box that included them



and cropped the layer down to just that



I decided a double blink would look better, so I duped the cropped layer twice



and put the eyes back in the middle copy



Here's what it looked like without the background, comprising most of the black-and-white teddy bear showing



and with



-Note the timing for each layer, and the use of (combine). This makes for a small file, as 43x45 animated .gifs go.


And here's blinking Teddy.

[Sava]

actually a very helpful tute for noobs

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Exactly the idea - I got in the habit of copious screenies because of a Italian w/very poor English I was teaching SMAX art modding. Taking and prepping screenies is a slow-down and a pain, but then so is writing detailed instructions, and this way nothing gets forgotten. You can see the buttons in use right there in the screenies.

This is a thing I was trying to tell Lori about - I am not the king of all internet art -I can barely draw- but empowering people lets me feel good about myself. A bunch of guys on my AC forum do art modding now; and since I taught all but one everything, I get to feel a little proprietary and proud whenever any of them mod. -Without having to do the work.