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You might ask yourself why I made my name even less legible than usual... just wait until the gif's fully loaded and you'll find out.

I was inspired by this: http://www.pacificnet.net/~tgrupe/graphics/spt-anim.gif (the personal page of the guy is here.)

Another interesting site is http://www.ambigram.com . The design isn't that great, though.

It's nowhere near finished, I'd just like to know if anybody's got any suggestions on what to do with the shapes before I start on the fancy stuff. If you'd like to try something on your own i'd suggest drawing it with pen first. Switch between CAPITAL letters and normal letters if you can't figure it out... it's a fun thing to try.



[This message has been edited by mahjqa (edited 01-21-2003).]

That's great that is! It's like a rotatory palindrome!

Wow, that's some nifty stuff! I can't imagine how I would get it to work with my name, though.

Hey, I like it, I'll have to try that sometime

and, umm, how exactly do you pronounce your name, I've always pronounced it mah-qua (with all long vowels), but then I remember somebody saying that [you said] it was mahj (short a) and then qa (q pronounced like c, accented a)

cfb: You know there must be an FAQ which addresses it

:FAQ:

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

the pronounciation of mahjqa

me again

once again

yup. I've played too much warcraft

And if anyone has any requests, I'll be glad to post som more

Brilliant sig

Hey, Mahj, whatever happened to the sig that I won?

Great stuff man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you are freaking genius!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done. The motion blur reminds me of http://www.ozones.com/greywheat.html

Micah!? Man, that's worse than Synax!

Lucid Igunana; it's coming, honest! (insert sweatdrop here)

Uhm... Suho? or anyone else... you've got any better suggestions, then? Feel free to post them, then.

Could anone tell me why I'm not seeing the animation in IE6, Opera6, Mozilla1.2.1 or netscape4.61 ?
Do I have something disabled?

Oh... Oh... so the Q is silent? and thas why there is no U following the Q?

or...

nevermind. That looks like it took entirely way to much time.... I was thinking about it when i was driving around this morning... and... yeesh. groovay.

                                   

sweet , very nice, your a lucky one to be able to do that with your name. I tried a wee go with mine, but couldnt , the two Hs are perfect though .. poo, or .. wait a min, when the ug are lower case it wouldnt be bad, didnt try that.. ~~ runs off the try (dont have any animator though).. ~~
.. fuck it I'll do it at home another time.
..
~~ I really didnt leave my seat ~~

oh yea, seems to me it should rotate the other way for some reason ?? prolly coz the fins on the h and the y seem like they should be dragged .. i dont know whats wrong with me..

I did it anyway, it aint animated though, but the text is the same rotated 180. Anywho its a dialup friendly 0.7kb (each)
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[This message has been edited by Hugh (edited 01-23-2003).]

You play warcraft do ya?

Well you'll have to get in touch with me and slime, we can do a 3v3 comp some time .

My name's always getting ragged on...

Whoa... no offense was meant, mahjqa, really. I was just noting that it is pronounced quite differently from the way I would have imagined. You've got every right to pronounce your name however you want.

synax: see above.

It was the lack of a slimie, wasn't it... I forgot to put a slimie in my original post...

mahjqa .. as always great sig .. but I do have a problem with it .. the rotation of the sig makes it big .. there is a lot of dead space between your post and the border color between the sig


.::. cEll .::. 513

Relax Suho You didn't offend anyone (myself included).

Well that's good to hear. You guys almost ruined my day.

Another test...

wow. great work there. the rotation is very cool now. it also doesn't need that much space any more
incredible! fantastic! ass kickin! unbelieveable! MAHJQA

-THE SPACE-

Uh, mas, you okay? You sound like you're hyperventilating, man

anyway.. another way of creating those mirror images is

1) make a white background
2) add your name (or anyone's) with black on a new layer
3) merge the two layers
4) duplicate that layer, and rotate the top one 180 degrees
5) set the top layer to 'screen' and move it until you've got something that looks right. if it doesn't work, try another font or turn capslock on.
6) fiddle a bit with it until it looks right.

ohkay... hokay.... thats nice. I was a bit dissapointed by your first post... it just didnt seem like a finished sig... and i am glad to see that it was not finished.

very nice addition!

                                   

thx, mahjqa, this works quite well =)

-THE SPACE-

Izzy, Izzy, Izzy....

quote:

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It's nowhere near finished, I'd just like to know if anybody's got any suggestions on what to do with the shapes before I start on the fancy stuff.

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So nyah.

you had to go and put that between 2 other sentences... sheesh. being the visual type, i just read the first and last sentences of every paragraph and then skipped to the pictures.

so.... nyah nyah!

I do stand corrected though, but my "nyah's" stay.

Well, I tried this out and I got the design. Now I just gotta make it spin. Are there any tuts to do this quicker, because the way that I was doing it was taking for ever.

yea im having troubles spinning...

Maaaan.... yeaah baby cool!

*huumms daddy cool*



[This message has been edited by Ktulu (edited 02-15-2003).]

Man, another cool technique from Mahjqa!

Ktulu.
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Duck.
nice bevel :\
To rotate click ctrl+J ctrl+T rotate 45 degrees. Repeat until full spin is completed.

Boom

Tips? And how do I make it smoother?

hmmm Sorry I think my host is down... AGAIN!

Duck, when you make it transparent, make sure your backgorund colour is RGB 43,04,04...tha'ts the matte colour for here, and it stop white-jaggies-from hell.

yea i know but im having problems... Because I did matte it
[Edit] There, I had to restart my comp and redo it for some reason...[/Edit]



[This message has been edited by Duck (edited 02-16-2003).]

Duck.
To make it smoother just use more frames.
Divide the amount of frames with 360. now you have 360/8 = 45.
Try 10 frames (360/10 = 36 degrees = smoother motion)

I guess I really only need 180 degrees though. Right?

Is there any way that I can speed it up?


[This message has been edited by Duck (edited 02-16-2003).]

[This message has been edited by Duck (edited 02-16-2003).]

Try reducing the number of seconds and increasing the number of frames per seconds. It should works, but on slow machines it will maybe "lag".

Silence is another speech. -Me

But its at zero right now.

gah!
then increase the rotating value
(you have 12,5 right now) = less frames = faster animation!
You can print numbers intstead of rotating it by hand. Just check
the toolbar at top of the screen.

Yep I used numbers.

Use higher numbers for more speed.

How does this one look?

better, but the white jaggies have returned with a vengeance.

Yes I know... My comp is acting up for some reason. I know I matted it.

[Edit] After five trys i finally got it!!

[This message has been edited by Duck (edited 02-17-2003).]

another one I just made