Peach Emoticons Finished

[Krystedez "Spectrum"]

Hey guys, me again. I just wanted to share this with you. I made these Peach emoticons for a friend of mine at this board called Peach's Place. It's a pretty neat place, the nintendo fans and players there are real nice ;D The boards are...quite eye popping and bright, but I like them anyway. Hoepfully Peach will get it to where it isn't so eye breaking Anyways, here's my new emots! Special gift to Peach for use at her forums!


































And here is the sheet!

Peach Emot Sheet:


These were created by me! Of course, heh, otherwise I wouldn't have posted them . Anyhow, rating and comments on how well I made these would be nice! ;D

[Rutt]

Oh,Spectrum,you're very talented! I love playing Peach,lol. How do you make emoticons? It looks very involved. I'd love to learn how!

[Krystedez "Spectrum"]

It's a complicated process, really...It takes a while, for sure.. I did all these from scratch in MSpaints first, using palletes from copy-pasted images of the characters I'm trying to emot, and then the 'fun' part is making the different movemeants and such from copy pasting the image several times into a bumber of frames...Then once you've completed the whole emot sheet, you have to cut out each individual frame, name them respectfully in a seperate and small file, like for instance;

k2cry1
k2cry2
k2cry3
ect...

k2=koda
cry= the emotion it represents
the # on the right is the numbered frame...


After a while of doing this, it gets easier... After getting all the frames done, then you have to get a good animation program, such as coffee cup fgif animator, and use it to animate the frames, along with using transparency on it. That way the white, green, grey, or whatever background from the original sheet won't show, and emot itself will be represented alone. Finally after making all the files animdted, you have to upload them to a server, for others to see.

It's really not THAT hard, but it's hard tom explain...I'd have to get you to come over my house and sit down in front of my computer to show you thourally, not that I'd be able to, though.

So, yea, that's my summary...again...

[Rutt]

Whew,you sure are a computer whiz! I'd never be able to do that!

[Warlock]

You thought that was hard. You should try UV-mapping to place textures on 3D objects. Remembering points in 3D Space, creating vertices, and skinning the splines, that takes skill. Then the Inverse Kinematics (IK) sometimes go over my head, which show how joints will bend when a character walks.

If I've lost anyone here, don't feel bad. It confuses me too.