Funny bard signature

Leopa Panthera · Guest

HAHAHAHA!!

I need to stop looking at these boards from work.

Katarin Andolini · Member Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 253

Cheap photoshop tricks mostly. <img src=

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For the lightning, I found an animated lightning gif and broke it down frame by frame and copied the doll on top of each frame.

For the smoke I was trying to find an animated smoke ring gif or something of the like...no luck. So I found a tutorial on making a smoke layer (the one I went to doesn't seem to be up atm but there are several others scattered across the web, like this one). Then I used this ripple text tutorial, only applying it to the smoke instead of text. Except I added in another frame for the animation 'cause the smoke was looking too jerky, so instead of doing the 1,2,3 frames that they discuss over and over again, I made mine 1,2,3,2, repeat. If that makes any sense!

~Kat

Leopa Panthera · Guest

<--- Good enough for now.

The leaves were too tricky since I couldn't make the falling animations look natural so I'll worry about that when I get my epic.

Love the outfit though!

Katarin Andolini · Member Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 253

wowow!! Awesome!! You go-go girl! /duck

Guest · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2002 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Funny bard signature

wooooo!

Katarin Andolini · Member Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 253

Tried a smurf today:

/covet screenshots of Walkers <img src=

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~Kat

Leopa Panthera · Guest

Ohtrux · Guest

All new sig, since I lost the last one. Sad

Tried something a little more simplified this time, and I finally have a realiable server to host it on.

made it a little smaller

Leopa Panthera · Guest

You're too talented. I can't figure out how you got the animations to move around that smoothly. <img src=

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Ohtrux · Guest

Thanks Leopa! Getting the animation smooth is really not that hard, actually. I use photoshop 6 and adobe imageready 3. Basically, more frames = smoother animation. For instance, this particular one was 16 frames all together, The trade-off is trying to get something smooth (more frames) without making the image so big it takes forever to load. Smile

Also the less actual layers you use, the less loading time as well. What I would really like, is to get a bunch of screenshots of ALL the Walkers, so I could work on some kind of portrait to put up, possibly on the guild website. Now THAT would be a fun challenge!

Leopa Panthera · Guest

Pretty, no?

Katarin Andolini · Member Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 253

Still at them...

Guest · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2002 12:00 pm Post subject: Re: Funny bard signature

Good Lawd, I thought I was nuts making a big sig. Good work, definitely cool =)

Leopa Panthera · Guest

Pwetty! Just shrinking down the armors?

Katarin Andolini · Member Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 253

Shrunk down the bp and epic, colored in the rest... And I love your siggy, Shwa!

My first monky attempt (cry):