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[PaleRose]

Aaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111
Forum is so bright aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh ..............

[Freja]

Hi Leena! I'm crossing my paws for someone add different themes or a custom CSS for this site

Juush, that was my first DC, I honestly thought it would be harder! ^^

RAWR

And look what I found, it is Gary when he was little!

Edited by Freja, 31 July 2010 - 08:06 PM.

[Moggernought]

We did Doom Cheras today :[
Dropped Xenovia's Symbol and Last Judgment

OMG! i gotta stop going to that magical work place, DAMNIT!

[Hostonal]

I am new, looking for some helpful players. I'm experienced in MMORPGs so I know how to play any character pretty much. Tell me which character you really need, and I'll be him.

[Juush]

OMG! i gotta stop going to that magical work place, DAMNIT!

I'll be joining you in that special place soon. My first day at the new job is on Wednesday :[

I am new, looking for some helpful players. I'm experienced in MMORPGs so I know how to play any character pretty much. Tell me which character you really need, and I'll be him.

Play whichever class you like! You should try out all the classes before you make your final decision :]

Hi Leena! I'm crossing my paws for someone add different themes or a custom CSS for this site

Juush, that was my first DC, I honestly thought it would be harder! ^^




And look what I found, it is Gary when he was little!

Were you stalking him? loool

Edited by Juush, 01 August 2010 - 03:05 AM.

[Loyalty1]

I'll be joining you in that special place soon. My first day at the new job is on Wednesday :[

What kind of job! x.X

Good luck! o:

[Juush]

What kind of job! x.X

Good luck! o:

It's a stupid job at a pizza place til I graduate. xD Not very exciting =/

[Moggernought]

I'll be joining you in that special place soon. My first day at the new job is on Wednesday :[

woo gj! now i wont be the only one missing out on stuff lol

[Loyalty1]

It's a stupid job at a pizza place til I graduate. xD Not very exciting =/

I'll cheer for you!

[Juush]

I'll cheer for you!

Cheer for me? =x Are you going to call me and say "Go pizza boy go!"

[Loyalty1]

Only if you dress up like that!

[Overlord]

Only if you dress up like that!

Get that way from me

[Freja]

Were you stalking him? loool

I wasn't stalking him that particular day! =]

[Juush]

Only if you dress up like that!

Hmm, maybe if you ask nicely.

[kmprins]

HI

Edited by kmprins, 01 August 2010 - 05:39 PM.

[Freja]

Hi kmprins! /waves

[PaleRose]

Someone make a sig for me please I'm lazy

[Freja]

I can play around a little for you Leena!

[PaleRose]

ok :3

[Juush]

I'm still waiting on my siggy.

[Freja]

I'm still waiting on my siggy.

Now I feel a lil bad ;~;

[Juush]

Now I feel a lil bad ;~;

It's ok! I still love you <3 I'm going to try and make my own! ;3

[Freja]

It's ok! I still love you <3 I'm going to try and make my own! ;3

Good luck!

[Juush]

Good luck!

Thanks :3 I want to try and make something like your ANCIENTS signature icon >_> It looks really cool =X

[Freja]

Thanks :3 I want to try and make something like your ANCIENTS signature icon >_> It looks really cool =X

I'll try explain quickly what I did!

- Printscreen the emblem ingame with a solid color in the backgound (Alban sky at night for example)
- Opened the screenshot in GIMP, choose Image -> Color to alpha
- Choose the color of the sky and OK

As you probably know, the alpha channel (color) is the invisible/translucent/see-through color

- Then I cropped the image so it became smaller
- Also made two different pictures of the emblem. One with the black part, and one with the green (as you can see they are moving independently of eachother)
- Saved both these pictures as PNG

- Imported both of the pictures in After Effect
- Added the guild and server text (I didn't save it in the PNGs)
- Added a solid background color -> Applied "noise/dust" effect to it
- Added some pre-made text effects which only works on TEXT (that's why I didn't save the guild text in the PNGs)
- one of the effects changes position of letters randomly
- another one "increase/decrease" the letter/number. A becomes B, B becomes C, 1 becomes ¤, and x becomes y (randomly)
- another effect I added was "Florence", which makes the letters opacity (visibility) changes (randomly)
- On the PNG with the background emblem (the black part) I just changed the "rotation" of it. At position 00:00:00 it would be 130º, at pos 00:00:43 it would be 30º, and so on...
- On the green PNG I just added some weird bubble/wiggle effect I think, and also (like above) changed over time.

At this time I had only 3 layers:
1 green emblem
2 black emblem
3 guild text
4 server text
5 background (the one with noise effect)

- Layer -> Add adjustment layer above all layers (a invisible layer which you can add effects to which will affect everything (every layer) below it with that effect)
- Then added some pre-made effect presets like "Directional Blur" (A effect that makes things moving fast blurry) to above mentioned layer

Hmm... when I was happy with the result and had it look okay when looping (most tricky part) I rendered the animation like follows:

- Composition -> Make movie. Then choose output module as PNG (so it creates 1 PNG image for each frame in the animation)
- Imported all these new PNG images in APNG Anime Maker and choose optimize, FPS, and saved it.
- To preview it I had to open/drag it into Opera, since faildows can't preview animated PNGs in their photoviewer ;~;

Hope something was useful, meow.