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02-03-2013, 05:22 PM
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Q: I have a few questions. Where do you pull your colors from? Do you take them from the picture; or do you pick them on your own?
A: I picked the colors on my own. Why do you ask?
I'd like to know how you get an animated profile picture like yours Novally.
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02-03-2013, 06:10 PM
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(02-03-2013, 05:22 PM)TheMario360 Wrote: I'd like to know how you get an animated profile picture like yours Novally.
If you mean how the picture moved, it's a file format: GIF. The format does have a limit like being palette-based and transparency works on an on/off basis instead of an 8-bit alpha channel as in PNG.
Anyway, there are single-frame gif images but some can be animated. A lot of programs that aren't MS Paint support animation nowadays; free tools that come to mind for this are GIMP and Paint.NET (with a plugin).
Paid programs include GIF Movie Gear and Photoshop.
I'm fairly sure tools like ImageMagick can create animated GIFs but those tools are rather unintuitive, thus I'd recommend not trying it if you're not intimately familiar with using programs on the command-line.
Edit: Actually I can make a GIF or few for you if you want. Just send me the individual frame images and tell me the ms delay between each one (or in general).
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You need to make king boo bigger
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02-03-2013, 07:04 PM
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....how much bigger? I'll start with 2 pixels
forget it, i'm just going to make him bigger
yea just a few pixels bigger would work as he is larger than the average Boo.
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I still think King Boo needs to be a bit bigger, keep the crown the same size though, too give the illusion that king boo is bigger than he actually is. King boo's tongue should be a bit lighter to go with the pale look of a ghost. Your shading is fine, it will work with your other sprites!
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(02-03-2013, 07:25 PM)TheMario360 Wrote: Cool. I'll make sprites (or as you could probably tell edit) in an animation sequence. I just need to know where to send it when it's done.
Private message works.
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What sprite editing software are you using?
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Um... I only use MS Paint. Why do you ask?
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Just wondering, any way the stars bottom two points are larger than the other points.
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Like my other post says, I just "posted something for the sake of posting something" So, I won't do any improvement work on it.