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

[molly bloom]

I'm an agnostic liberal.

Ah ha! So you admit Barack Obama is your secret lover!

Things were so much better in the 1950s when children had two parents, a man and a woman, when there were lynchings, anti-semitism and red scares and witchhunts and no one suspected the Vatican of covering up institutionalized child sex abuse. Oh and of course nuclear armageddon a possibility...


Ah yes, halcyon days.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I admit no such thing. I kicked Bakrama to the curb years ago, for not being socialist enough.

What's with the unsourced lies all the time Molly? I suspected the Vulcans of concealing Orion-fiddling all along.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

$#@!.

I had another idea, and there went a couple hours...

[Sava]

what am i looking at?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

A mirror, if you were a toad.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Here: I did a little tweaking-

-of a lot of tweaking.

[SlowwHand]

Maybe you'll be next

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Next what?

-You can use that by saving the link I just used and wrapping [IMG] tags around it.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Lesson Four: Electric Boogaloo 2, Part One

Okay, I decided that for my next, whatchacallit, tootoreal, I'd make Teddy dance for your amusement.

First, I opened the waving version from the last lesson. I thought I'd begin by having him wave both arms, so first I selected the straight arm with the Fuzzy Select/magic wand tool. The subtext of this here intructional thingy is unintentional, BTW, and you have a dirty mind for noticing.



[Delete]>selected other arm>[Ctrl]c to copy. (You don't have to draw the whole figure when it's symmetrical - an entire half you can copy/flip will do, as I did in drawing Teddy in the first place.)

[Ctrl]v to paste



Layers>Transform>Flip horizontally



Drag it over into position



deselect



Now, two frames is enough for a basic animation, as before, but I want Teddy to wave his arms twice before he goes on to his next -totally innocent- moves.

So I right-click on the Background Layer thumbnail in the menu>Duplicate Layer



drag it past the second layer to the third layer position/top



and do the same with the second layer.



Now it's just a matter of renaming and putting the right commands in the text next to each thumbnail.



.gifs aren't picky about what you name each layer, as long as it includes a number higher than the layer before. The easiest thing to do is copy/paste the text from Frame 2 (300ms) (replace), correcting the number as you go -



There's more to the dance teddy's gonna do, but that needs to wait, because bedtime. Here's what we've got so far:



-And next time, Teddy's gonna bust some mad moves, yo.

[molly bloom]

I admit no such thing. I kicked Bakrama to the curb years ago, for not being socialist enough.

What's with the unsourced lies all the time Molly?

It's a result of being possessed by Sister Bendy's astral self. The flood of mendacity washes over me.... and these strange desires to join the John Birch Society and launch nuclear armageddon on Russia and China and North Korea, with a soupcon of napalm for Cuba.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

-You should mix in some Mr. Fun for balance.


Speaking of which, hey Fun; if you're really interested in smilie making/computer art, or whatever, tell me about it - ask questions. Post your work (in progress)...

[molly bloom]

-You should mix in some Mr. Fun for balance.

Perhaps a smidgeon of Serb's cosmic alter ego would balance out the Sister Bendy loa. Or send me totally gagatonic.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

A sense of humor is a big plus. It's definitely a common deficiency among the less popular members here.

-Of course the totally gagatonic thing could happen, too.

[molly bloom]

A sense of humor is a big plus. It's definitely a common deficiency among the less popular members here.

-Of course the totally gagatonic thing could happen, too.

You really know how to piss into my paddling pool, don't'cha ?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I am a man of many talents.