Let's Make Smilies!

[Buster's Uncle]

Look carefully at the frame cropping when you open this and look over what I've done - I left it unoptimized, since it's a WIP.  As you see, I left it to you to roll it back.  Shouldn't be TOO tough to finish, now...

[Buster's Uncle]

...You might experiment with the frame timing - it might be funnier if the corner-rolling looks awkward instead of bouncy, as slowing the roll to 100ms or so might do.  Maybe 100ms as it turns up, and 50 as it turns down.  My idea in the first place was making the square roll like a square...

[Flux]

Well, now I'm starting to know how the layer-boundary tool works.
What an educational smilie.
(AND frustrating. I did something to mess up all of the good looking frames somehow)
the attachment is to see if it'll display properly this time, btw.

[Buster's Uncle]

The roll is three intermediate frames - 22.5 degrees, 45, and 67.5.  Repeat those over and over, using the forward corner touching the bottom as positioning guide and ending in the flat square, then go back and paste the face in.  I just loaded up the round original copy/pasted the laugh, and kept track by matching the frame numbers that I pasted from/to.

You'll notice that I made it 9 pixels taller and almost 40 wider - it needed the room to roll square and be funny.

[Flux]

The roll is three intermediate frames - 22.5 degrees, 45, and 67.5.  Repeat those over and over, using the forward corner touching the bottom as positioning guide and ending in the flat square, then go back and paste the face in.  I just loaded up the round original copy/pasted the laugh, and kept track by matching the frame numbers that I pasted from/to.

You'll notice that I made it 9 pixels taller and almost 40 wider - it needed the room to roll square and be funny.

Well, I've just been copying the square rotations of your forward roll...
Takes away from the educational value, something I need. Too late for those ones now, I might finish up with the manual rotation

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah; just copy/paste mine.  That's what I meant.  You'll know how to do it yourself next time.

[Flux]

Yeah; just copy/paste mine.  That's what I meant.  You'll know how to do it yourself next time.

Gonna go with serious. I'll do the last 8 or so frames soon, but I have some things to do.

[Buster's Uncle]

As I keep saying, ripping off modifying old smilies is how I learned.  You're getting very good, very fast, so don't sweat that.


-Now, the way I made the turning squares was to copy one of your sitting-flat ones, erase the face, and rotate exactly 22.5 degrees at a time (actually 22.5, then paste in the flat in the next frame, rotate 45, paste in the flat in the next frame and rotate 67.5 - rotating a rotated copy would have made a sloppy mess).  Then I just copy/pasted the same four angles over and over, 'cause a square rotated 90/180/270 degrees looks identical to one unrotated.  It's the angle of the face that gives it a sense of true motion.

Once you're finished, you can duplicate the rotating yourself for practice, if you like, and if you're really eager to learn, start from scratch duplicating the face rotations from the stationary .  They came out a bit crappy, you'll have noticed, but who can tell at 60ms while they're moving?

[Flux]

They came out a bit crappy, you'll have noticed, but who can tell at 60ms while they're moving?

Yeah, I've noticed with a lot of smilies it's okay to sacrifice a little quality when people really can't tell anyway.
Alright, gonna tarnish you for a sec here...
Look at the background of the BE window in  -The pixels move for no apparent reason.
in the bright pixels in the middle don't move up/down.

[Buster's Uncle]

You mean under Lal's behind?

[Flux]

No - Part of the top gets cropped out. But you widen it just a little to o.

-I also greatly improved the old Svensgaard smilie I made. In the sense that he looks more like a drunk pirate.

[Buster's Uncle]

Huh.

You know, I've been beginning to wonder, lately, if it wasn't time to ditch the BE window version, anyway...

[Flux]

I vote old Laljoy.

[Buster's Uncle]

in the bright pixels in the middle don't move up/down.

By design - if it's spherical and the light source doesn't move, the highlight stays in place even though the face is rotating forward and back.

[Flux]

I had just figured the guy had a horrible farmers tan. Silly me.