Let's Make Smilies!

[Geo]

Cool!  Click on my sig Enterprise!

What code gives that effect?

 

Santiago firing a warning shot in the air smilie?

[Buster's Uncle]

The picture is in an album, and it's 45x138 pixels.  I set it to display at 25x103.  -Didn't know THAT would happen.

Quote this

We can swap or something - the code I used was

to get said code.

[Geo]

I see. Clicking the picture opens up a link so to speak.

[Buster's Uncle]

Speaking of which, do you mean to have your photobucket hyperlinked?

[Geo]

Its linked to the public section, so I'm not in a hurry to adjust it.

[Buster's Uncle]

I got some more suggestions for the other leaders:

Zakharov popping out of a test tube- or bunsen burner.

 Morgan's head on a bank note or rolling around on a coin on edge.

 Yang's head going in and out of a rabbit hole (w/rabbit ears).

 Santiago as a rocket- somewhat like Grant Morrison's 'Bulleteer'

[Buster's Uncle]

Mo' from Molly:

Domai as one end of a barbell (his profile has the photo of the weight lifting/bodybuilders competition) or a spanner.

Aki as a computer screen or image in one, or embedded in circuits...

Svengaard with eye patch, or possibly replacing the skull in a skull and crossbones flag.

Cha Dawn as the Caterpillar from 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmmm.  I saw a few days ago that the animation of the popcorn smilie was defective - I don't know why I never noticed before.

It was a problem I've encountered before; the (replace) and (combine) functions don't play well together when (replace) follows (combine) and something has to move against the transparent background.  Took a very long time to track down all the details, but I finally got it, and added some shading/depth to customize in the AC2 style while I was in there.  Alas, the file size increased substantially between more colors and all the frames I had to convert back to (replace).  But working animation definitely beats broken.

Side by side for comparison:

 

[Buster's Uncle]

I just decided to make a smilie.  I've loaded up the smilie to work from, so let's time how long it takes...

[Buster's Uncle]

Ten minutes.

[Geo]

 

The right one looks complete, the left one has a double popcorn bag at a certain point in the animation. I take it the right one is the most recent one?

[Buster's Uncle]

Yessir.  It doesn't hurt that in addition to having the animation fixed, it looks more advanced than the CFC model...

I'm favorably inclined to installing .  Whaddyathink?

[JarlWolf]

I suggest making movement of smily's head from side to side faster. Looks kind of jarring and unnaturally slow.

[Buster's Uncle]

That would look like this:

[JarlWolf]

Looks better.