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Animation Hour.
It's here.


In case you don't know what it is (of course you won't), Animation Hour something I'll do when I feel especially artsy on a certain day. It basically will go like this:
I will post the above banner and say whether I am offering text animations or hand-drawn animations. Text animations are when I...
Uh...
My brain's feeling a bit stupid right now. Just watch the animation above 'til the end. There, at the end, is a very simple example of text animation. Hand-drawn animation is more like the main part of the above animation, with the grumpy stick figure guy.

I am not offering Animation Hour right now, obviously, I'm just explaining it. Animation Hour may or may not happen every day. Likely it will not be a daily thing. And, true to its name, Animation Hour only occurs for an hour after I make the post declaring that it has started.

Here is the request code for TEXT ANIMATIONS:

Slide 1:
Slide 2:
Slide 3:
Slide 4:
Slide 5:

Text animations may have up to ten slides of text. Please place the text in between quotations (these things: " " ). If you want a specific font, size, or color, please say so in parenthesis (these things: () ). If you want me to linger on one slide longer than another, say how long you want me to linger between asterisks (these things: * ). And if you want me to put a blank slide in somewhere, just put three hashtags instead of text (like this: "###" ). Here is an example of a correctly completed Text animation order:

Slide 1: "Hello!" (Arial, size 24)
Slide 2: "Guess what?"
Slide 3: "###"
Slide 4: "It's Animation Hour!" (Sans Bold, size 36, bright red) *3 seconds*

Here is the request code for HAND-DRAWN ANIMATIONS:

Character 1:
Character 2:
Character 3:
Description of Placement:
Description of Movement:

Now, I know what you're all thinking: Whaaaaat?
Or, at least, what most of you are thinking. The characters are the people, animals, or objects that appear in the animation. You will tell me what they are, and then in parenthesis (these things: () ) give me the short name that you will refer to them as in the DoP and DoM (Descriptions of Placement and Movement). In the Description of Placement you tell me where everything is. In the Description of Movement, you're basically telling me what's going on. Animations may not have more than two objects moving at a time. It may also only have ONE living creature in it at any one time. Here is an example of a correctly completed Hand-Drawn animation order:

Character 1: Stick figure man (Man)
Character 2: Pencil (Pencil)
Description of Placement: Man is standing in the center of the banner with Pencil behind his ear.
Description of Movement: Man raises his hand and waves hello. With his hand still up, he says "I'm an animation!". Man then puts his hand down again.

...and that's all there is to it! Well, actually... it's not. There's something I need to make absolutely clear to you guys:

Zangooser wrote:

Please remember that I reserve the right to deny your order. If I find that your order is inappropriate, unfairly complex, does not follow my given rules or request code, or simply is beyond my personal and physical capabilities, I will notify you and your order will be removed from the waiting list. Keep in mind that should I choose to reject your order for any of the above reasons,
it does not in any way, shape, or form reflect my opinion of you.
If you follow my rules, be respectful to myself and other orderers, and be patient, I will in return put all of my effort into making you an attractive banner the way you ordered it.

...Okay? Okay.


Now, go do me a favor:
Comment! Tell me what you think! Are you excited about Animation Hour? Or do you think I should stick with static banners?

Last edited by Zangooser (2012-09-11 16:55:19)

ErnieParke wrote:

Annimations could really improve some banners, so I say that this is a great idea, though I wish that you could get animations for two hours, not one.

I can explain the one-hour rule, but I'd rather just tell you this: the animation for Animation Hour in my previous post took me two hours to make. And that's when it's a simple animation that I don't need to refine or anything. If I got three orders for hand-drawn animations, that's at least seven hours' worth of work right there. So, yeah, case in point: animations take awhile to make. XP

Last edited by Zangooser (2012-08-09 20:55:18)

WingsGames wrote:

May I please have a signature with a newspaper with the words "The Scratch Chatter" at the top of the paper? It would be cool if it were on a table, either during breakfast or on a desk with a laptop on it. Whatever you think would look better.

I can try, but I've never done a newspaper theme before. It's going to be difficult to make it realistic, but I promise to do my best. 

Um, but could you wait until tomorrow? It's getting late where I am, I'm going to bed soon.

Zangooser wrote:

WingsGames wrote:

May I please have a signature with a newspaper with the words "The Scratch Chatter" at the top of the paper? It would be cool if it were on a table, either during breakfast or on a desk with a laptop on it. Whatever you think would look better.

I can try, but I've never done a newspaper theme before. It's going to be difficult to make it realistic, but I promise to do my best. 

Um, but could you wait until tomorrow? It's getting late where I am, I'm going to bed soon.

Yeah, sure. Take your time, I'd rather have a high-quality signature tomorrow than a low-quality one today.

Can you help me design a banner for the new band, The Obsidian?

With the O in big, aligned to the left centre of the banner, bsidian ( the rest of the letters) a little smaller, but centre point same as the O. 'THE' goes on top of the word " Obsidian "  and be smaller, on the top right of letter O. Other than that, can I have a blue top to down gradient fill with musical notes and rests scattered around the place, but surrounding the words? Thank you very much!

WingsGames, hopefully this is what you had wanted:

[img]http://i46.tinypic.com/2lxea91.png[/img]

laser314 wrote:

Something you might see as the good guy mothership in a sci-fi movie.

Could you give me a picture example? I've only watched about two sci-fi movies in my entire life. 

laser314 wrote:

Something like this.

Ooh, that's going to be tough.
But I'll try. 

On second thought, would you be okay with it if I just took the picture you gave me, prettied it up a bit, and put it in the banner? I don't think I can make it myself. 

Last edited by Zangooser (2012-08-10 15:42:07)

Zangooser wrote:

WingsGames, hopefully this is what you had wanted:

http://i46.tinypic.com/2lxea91.png

Code:

[url]http://i46.tinypic.com/2lxea91.png[/url]

This is phenomenal!    I love it!

The same siggy but with the new sprites. Sprites on my profile. (My siggy)

Last edited by soniku3 (2012-08-10 16:32:54)

Zangooser wrote:

soniku3 wrote:

The same siggy but with the new sprites. Sprites on my profile. (My siggy)

Can you give me a link to the sprites, and also tell me which one(s) to use?
And also, you say you want the same background and everything?

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/soniku3/2720197 the stand pose.

Zangooser wrote:

Is this okay?

http://i45.tinypic.com/992cjl.png

Code:

[url]http://i45.tinypic.com/992cjl.png[/url]

Great! Thanks!

Zangooser wrote:

soniku3 wrote:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/soniku3/2720197 the stand pose.

The largest one?

yup.