Preserved Topic: What's this? What's this?

What's This
What's this? What's this?
There's color everywhere
What's this?
There's white things in the air
What's this?
I can't believe my eyes
I must be dreaming
Wake up, Jack, this isn't fair
What's this?



A better version. Has transparency, has 16 colors, and filesize is cut from 59 to 19 KB.

Testing... The things I'm stuck with are these:

1) My name. I really need to have it in or on there somewhere, I've had some nasty cases of stealing going on. (Nimraw, if you read this: I've got the mail and I'm dealing with it.)
Related to that: a font. I sketched a lot of things, but I can't come up with something snowflakey.

2) How should I end the animation? I can loop it backwards, but that'd make no sense. Melting is also a possibility, and the most likely one.

Anyway, as it's once again midnight, I'll be signing off.

Comments? Crists? Questions?

(obligatory second-color check)



(Edited by mahjqa on 09-03-2004 00:24)

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

I kind of expected the outward color effect to continue with other colors (appearing in the same way, just over the blueness), eventually looping to the background (transparent) color appearing with the same outward motion from the center.


 

Make your name from condensing vapour, or the shattered particles of the flake (further decaying to nothing) per'aps?

==I don't believe it! Somebody stole my sig!!==

yes, white hawks idea is nice. this would be your first sig without your name?! dont let that happen
i personally would prefer the some melting effects...

B | T | E | P | L

I look at this great piece of work and I am reminded of the begining of the Grinch movie when they zoom into Whoville from a snowflake... So in that vein, how about a zoom into one branch of the snowflake where your name can be embossed/printed/etched/whatever on?

...Just a thought.

Peace,



(Edited by Jung on 09-03-2004 11:04)

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Jung said:

I look at this great piece of work and I am reminded of the begining of the Grinch movie when they zoom into Whoville from a snowflake... So in that vein, how about a zoom into one branch of the snowflake where your name can be embossed/printed/etched/whatever on?...Just a thought.Peace,(Edited by Jung on 09-03-2004 11:04)

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When I saw that I immediately had to think about the imminent doom & destruction that would happen when the snowflake would touch the ground, or worse, melted.

I wish I could do that

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Mahjqa , why don't you have your name temporarily appear as the snowflake melted from the inside out as part of the melting process. Use the negative space for your name. The font could be anything rounded with maybe some distortion to make it more watery/fluid.

Just my two pennies...

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==I don't believe it! Somebody stole my sig!!==

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Who stole your sig, White Hawk?

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I've had some nasty cases of stealing going on.

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That sucks. Care to vent about it?


Life's too short to put up with bad art.

(Edited by Moth on 09-04-2004 06:37)

What's this?
What's this?
There's something very wrong.
What's this?
There's people singing songs.
What's this?
The streets are lined with little creatures laughing,
Everybody seems so happy,
Have I possibly gone daffy?
WHAT IS THIS?!

Haha, great movie....

I agree that melting into your name would look cool.

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You know, I just keep coming back to this trhead to look at the snowflake over and over again. That is such awesome work, mahjqa. You've got some of the best sigs here, I'm blown away by them. Looking forward to seeing how you integrate your name in there.

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Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête!

Perhaps something like cracked glass to represent a name writing itself in ice on a window?

First of all - awsome art - this is the best yet

Well, your name has six letters - the flake twelve tips - you could put one letter on/in/around every second tip - nice and discreat...

what I would like to know though - how did you do it? Any chance that you'll make a tut one of these days for it?
much appreciated

I still like the dolphin one you made the best

[edit]Removed Your Dolphin sig. to preserve the snowflake theme ;-)[/edit]

(Edited by Gilbert Nolander on 09-10-2004 21:28)

I swear, I just LOVE your work! I'm almost like, well, mahjqa's already topped it, why even bother? Except I like to fiddle with the program...

I agree that a nice melty effect would be good, maybe into snowdrifts over your name at the bottom... Can't think of a good way to explain it, and don't have enough time to try to illustrate at the moment... Use a sort of rounded, snow-drifty looking font.

It is a crying shame that folks can't be honest enough to request permission to use a graphic - mahjqa, you are all too willing to assist people's journey into their own animation skills, and it really sucks that there's still people out there who feel the need to steal your work. Hope you get it resolved quickly and reletively painlessly!

I shall not debase the thread with my own small sigs - your stuff should stand alone!

Moth - I have no idea whatsoever, but it is obviously not there, is it?

==I don't believe it! Somebody stole my sig!!==

Maybe you should post a reward poster. "Have you seen this sig?"


Life's too short to put up with bad art.

Well, maybe this will help?

LMAO! Brilliant! I think I might have to adapt that for my first ever sig.

==I don't believe it! Somebody stole my sig!!==

Jung!!! That is wonderful!!


Life's too short to put up with bad art.

I feel like I've hi-jacked your 'new sig' thread with my own. It is even prompting missing campaigns.

Not bad for a sig that doesn't actually exist. lol

==I don't believe it! Somebody stole my sig!!==

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I might have to adapt that for my first ever sig

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Nice vertical stretch at the bottom of each post

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Or spilled (horizontal)?

==I don't believe it! Somebody stole my sig!!==

Whee! New version! Took a while, I know. Anyway. Once again, 16 colors. 66783 bytes. Too much work. Crisp & clear.

I'll try to post some explain-y-gifs in half an hour or so.

For the people who want to know how I did the water: check http://www.mahjqa.com/stuff/liquidstuff.psd and http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5623 . (check the [quote] part with the four images at the bottom of the page, first.)

The animation of the snowflake is actually quite simple. The lines were on 4 different layers: (left half of the pic)



The layers simply grew outward, one at a time. if you look closely, you can see them following eachother outwards.

Want to try it yourself?

Snowflakes for dummies

Not meant to be derogatory, there may be some new PS users (or oldbies) who want to try it... or you can use the snowflake designer.

More info on the buggers is here.



(Edited by mahjqa on 09-16-2004 01:30)

Love the sig now, Majqa!

2 1/2 thumbs up

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supercool sig man....and thanks for the great info!

B | T | E | P | L

That is just sooo cool!!

Thanks for the education too.

(Edited by White Hawk on 09-16-2004 22:18)

random thoughts:
melting?
outstanding!
he's done it again
love it...

LOL thanks for the tute and links - besides the cool sig mahjqa!

Three thumbs up.
No, wait, that`s not a thumb.....but I`m really excited..


Nice work, as always, Mahjqa.

Mahjqa, I love the final version, that's exactly what I was thinking about ^way up there^...
It melts into your name perfectly...

You are the MAN!

Wow mahjqa....i love the melting effect on your name...

careful there, db, don't want to put an eye out...
got to see the sig in color yesterday at school. everything's better in color, you're sig included!

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bodhi23 said:

You are the MAN!

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and I fully agree, keep up the awesome work




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