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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #180 on: December 12, 2010, 04:54:09 AM »
agreed. 1.0 jake in book one looked about the right age.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #181 on: December 13, 2010, 09:07:08 AM »
Yeah, he's more like Jake at the end of the story... with lighter hair ^^'
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #182 on: December 13, 2010, 02:12:13 PM »
i'm working on an actual morphing animation using 3 pictures from the cover. i'll have it up by tonight; i think it looks alright.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #183 on: December 13, 2010, 02:51:20 PM »
i'm working on an actual morphing animation using 3 pictures from the cover. i'll have it up by tonight; i think it looks alright.
Cool. :) Can't wait.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #184 on: December 13, 2010, 02:58:16 PM »
well, the .gif file is like 20mb (40 if i make it loop), so i'm probably going to find an alternate media to use, probably avi.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #185 on: December 13, 2010, 04:34:17 PM »
i'm working on an actual morphing animation using 3 pictures from the cover. i'll have it up by tonight; i think it looks alright.

The core before & after images are already bare (without backgrounds) so I was actually going to suggest someone try it out with their own morphing software. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out. :)

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #186 on: December 13, 2010, 11:23:48 PM »
Never heard of compression goom? I see no reason you wouldn't be able to get it down to a more reasonable file size and still look decent.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #187 on: December 14, 2010, 01:47:49 AM »
Never heard of compression goom? I see no reason you wouldn't be able to get it down to a more reasonable file size and still look decent.

i know about compression. i use 'optimize for gif' in GIMP, using only the differences in the layers rather than replacing the whole thing each time.

400 frames is nothing to laugh at :D

i'll try and have an .avi up in a bit, since that would probably work better.
here's the .gif file (11mb size, so i figured i wouldn't directly link it).

i couldn't get the beginning quite right, partially due to his hair being cropped off (rather than his whole head being available for me to morph).
the image's first and last frames are both 2000ms, while most of the rest are 40ms.

enjoy. :P

if anybody wants me to, i can make an alternate morph without a loop (jake -> lizard, repeat) for a smaller size.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #188 on: December 14, 2010, 02:00:04 AM »
Goom, that looks amazing! The transitions look WAY better when they are blended in like that! :D


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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #189 on: December 14, 2010, 02:41:04 AM »
thanks. :P
i'm putting the .avi on youtube.

edit: after a lot of compressing, done.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4N4okFVOLo[/youtube]
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #190 on: December 14, 2010, 08:40:13 AM »
That's really great!!! *applaud*
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #191 on: December 14, 2010, 09:53:58 AM »
Nice! :D

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #192 on: December 14, 2010, 10:29:15 AM »
thanks. :P
i'm putting the .avi on youtube.

edit: after a lot of compressing, done.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4N4okFVOLo[/youtube]

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #193 on: December 14, 2010, 02:15:13 PM »
thanks guys. i had a bit of a tough time because of the pose angle changing, but i don't think it looks too odd.
if anybody else wants to try something similar, i used a free program called sqirlz morph.
you have to tweak it a LOT to get anything that looks decent (in my eyes), though, so it can be time-consuming.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #194 on: December 14, 2010, 02:56:39 PM »
I know somewhat, since I've done--er, tried to make a morph. They always came out terribly. :P