[Ducky]

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Welcome to Pondside Animations!


This is a place where I would like to offer small animations of avatars, and possibly other things. things like banners, buttons, etc. I'm new to making animated .gifs, so this is as much a way for me to learn as it is to make a little extra Aurum o-o;

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As I'm new to it all, I am not confident doing 'big' animations yet. So things like super confusing layered avatars, then wanting me to make a certain item move.. probably not possible XD
also, since I will only have access to a solid saved image of your avatar (unless you feel like giving me all the items on the avatar), I wont be able to do much more than make making them blink, adding text, filters etc. The 2 avatar examples below were only possible because I had the items to save images of individual poses without any white space.
(so yeah, i can do next to nothing without access to your items. realising that now DX)

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right now I wont be making any sort of order form or anything.. in fact the first 3 I do will be FREE 8D I need a few more examples to offer before I fully open >_<


Examples:
Snails
Angel/demon
wings
Saith
Asami
#2 bat

[Mizeria]

-peeks in-

are you open?

[Dawn]

Sounds interesting, Ducky. :o

Animations can be fun. -hope this thread is open-

I could be willing to be an animation victim, erm sample for ya.

[Ducky]

I'm not open for payments or anything. so technically not open. ut I do want to do a few free ones now o-o so i'm open to that.

[Mizeria]

-really wants to ask for another art gif thingy-

I would feel bad cause... I already got a free one.

also, you're posty would look better if you took the siggy off.
cause you gif is a repeat
xD

[Ducky]

Well.. the first 3 free are first come first serve :P

Yeah, I was just thinking that actually >_< But I also want to have one .gif in my sig which will link here D: I suppose i can make a new one.

[Mizeria]

but its not an avi
>3<

I want my art from choco to wink
lol

[Dawn]

:3

What sort of program do you use for your animations? I use to a few on Gimp, mainly animating a few snowglobes I had made.

[Ducky]

-looks at the art in your sig- uuuhhh.. I could give it a try? xD I would like to offer more than just avatars.

Right now I'm using GIMP as I no longer have access to photoshop Dx

[Dawn]

I <3 Gimp. I use to have photoshop.. but not the updated software.

I have a piece of art right now on there I am working on. I might attempt to do animation with it when's it finished.

-glances at Miz's art too-

Actually, that wouldn't be all that hard to do. Just make another two layers of the art and edit each one to make it look like the eye is closing. :3 Than animate.

[Mizeria]

the eye without the monocle please~
xDD

[Ducky]

Yeah, I know it would b fairly simple. The thing that I'm not sure about is making it so it looks like it's meant to be part of the art. As the art is quite stylized >_<

and would Choco be okay with me touching her art? >_>

[Mizeria]

I'll ask her again
owo;

-just sent chco a message-
I'll let you know when i get a response;

[Ducky]

and with winking.. i'd have to make both eyelids move and meet in the middle. this could be interesting XD I'm also not entirely sure if it will look good, as winking tends to look a bit weird unless the eyes are looking directly at you.

[littl3chocobo]

i could give you one of my winkies so you can see how it looks XD though it'd be neat if you could make it look seamless though you need four frames not two, the eye closing needs three to be smooth and then there is the close so the up can have three as well and not be choppy which a lot of artists have an issue with. the frames go faster that is the trick

[Dawn]

That is true.. -studies the image a bit more-

The style looks easy to mimic.. the more realistic pieces are the ones I find the hardest to edit..

And gaining permission from the artist beforehand is a good idea.. I know I had to ask permission from Kpop to take one of her pieces to color in without editing.