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I finished two this week that had been in the works for a long time, and it feels so good I just have to babble about it everywhere. 😆
I fell in love with them the first time I saw one on the internet way back when I was in college, but it was years later before I actually got to fulfill the dream of making one of my own.
Nowadays I usually make them to use as avatars on my LiveJournal account. Since I talk about the weather and the seasons more than enough, I figured I could make some for the seasons, with characters from my writing.
Here’s autumn, that I finished a couple days ago.
I made one for spring as well, earlier this year.
Of course they’re not half as nice once I squash them down to 100×100 pixels and under 40k for LiveJournal requirements. 😕
I also enjoy making what I call ‘trailer-avatars.’ Came from watching too many movie trailers at the theatre–gave me the idea to make mini-trailers for my books.
So yesterday, nearly ten months after starting on it, I finally got my distractible self to finish the avatar for my first book.
I use all sorts of software with these, generally Poser, Vue 6 Esprit, PhotoShop Elements, and GIF Construction Set Professional. I’ve also made some from videos take with my digital camera. It has been fun learning and pushing myself in new directions! 😀
Those are neat!
While hiding somewhere in my head I'm on the lookout for white oriental dragons! Please let me know if you know of any available. Thank you!
Those are cool. Making animated GIFs is hard. My icon community allowed animated icons for the first time ever this week and I had fun torturing myself making some. I had a hard time finding animated tutorials for Photoshop and Image Ready though.
Pegs> I make my icons in Photoshop and ImageReady. This page is a little collection of all the sprites I did last summer:
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/bitmaps (the links on the side don’t work, this is a new page for my new website.)I mostly used the following tutorial on DeviantArt. I hope it helps! If it doesn’t, you can also PM me if you really want to learn. 🙂
Thanks rockerbot. Pixel animation is cool, but not what I was wanting right now. There’s a community on livejournal that supposedly had tutorial for PS and IR, but 2/3 of them don’t exsist or are locked so you can’t see them. Annoys me. I was able to adapt some JASC Animation Studio (?) tutorials. I can’t really say much about the icons I did make because the contest hasn’t ended yet.
Thanks, you guys! 😀
Those are cute, rockerbot! I especially like the blue fellow blowing his bangs up, and the frustrated writer one–that motion must’ve been hard to make smooth. 😛
Those are neat! Being a bit of newbie here, it’s interesting to see what others do outside of their Windstone obsessions. 😀
Tintaglia wrote:Those are neat! Being a bit of newbie here, it’s interesting to see what others do outside of their Windstone obsessions. 😀
I agree! Some people around here are amazingly creative and talented! 😀
Wow, those are cool. I like the moving ones, but I haven’t got the foggiest clue on how to make them.
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