10-23-2012, 09:02 AM
Holy wow, awesome job Ridge!
Also JUST noticed this thread even existed. Knowing that it does gives me a real good kick in the backside to get on with Mario Battle, unfortunately school's started again but I'll try and do a fixed amount of frames/animations each day. In any case I already finished the tummy-rubbing animation, it was HELL but some fancy cutting and sticking back together in GIMP managed to get it all perfectly.
By the way Ridge, I recently made a program called Background Remover (here) which can... well, uh, remove backgrounds. It's not a miracle and you probably can't use it in every situation, but it should make removing the background from Bowser easier sometimes. As you can see in the screenshots, if he remains stationary during the animation you can remove the background of multiple frames which can save a lot of time.
Also JUST noticed this thread even existed. Knowing that it does gives me a real good kick in the backside to get on with Mario Battle, unfortunately school's started again but I'll try and do a fixed amount of frames/animations each day. In any case I already finished the tummy-rubbing animation, it was HELL but some fancy cutting and sticking back together in GIMP managed to get it all perfectly.
By the way Ridge, I recently made a program called Background Remover (here) which can... well, uh, remove backgrounds. It's not a miracle and you probably can't use it in every situation, but it should make removing the background from Bowser easier sometimes. As you can see in the screenshots, if he remains stationary during the animation you can remove the background of multiple frames which can save a lot of time.