Welcome to FF ~ Crumb III

[Crumb]

Maybe I should quit while I am ahead. But no I am forging ever onward. This is not up to the standard I have set, but I wanted to us :ff: in a smiley, and figured this would be a good way to do it. (You are not obligated to use these smilies, liv. If you don't want it just leave it here. :wink:)

Any suggestions are appreciated, it's the only way I will learn.

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~conradj/WelcomeFF.gif

[Skep]

That's great just the way it is. :cheer:

You're getting very good, very fast. Good job, man. :yup:

[JoeP]

It's great, and I hope you will take my picky comments following as nothing more than an eternal indictment of your smilie-creating abilities and general character.

The motion of the sign is a little disturbing with the double-jerk. It looks like they're chanting something and it's not "WELCome TO F-F".

And what's with the blue and turquoise hannibal lecters? Are they wearing masks or braces?

[livius drusus]

I love the sign, although I agree with Joe that the double-jerk is weird. I don't like the noses on the guys, I'm afraid, and the thickness of the smiling mouths words on the big grin ones, but not on the plain smile ones. I don't think the O-mouthed dudes look like Jason or anything, but they do look odd.

I think it's fantastic that you're creating your very own smiley style, Crumb. You've barely started and you're already kicking ass. :yup:

[Crumb]

Here it is without the double.

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~conradj/WelcomeFF2.gif

Careful with the complements or I might start to grow an ego. I can't afford to feed the both of us. So more than likely it would eat me alive. :eek:

[Ensign Steve]

I like the noses as well as the freaky mouths and all the different colors. Who wants a forum full of pretty-boy smilies that all look the same?

[MooseIBe]

I really like it :) How do you create smilies, anyway?

[Crumb]

I have just been drawing them in MS Paint and using a shareware program to do the animation.

[MooseIBe]

really? hey cool I should give it a try .. though given that I have no artistic talent at all i doubt I would do all that well ;). Could you recommend a shareware programme though?

[JoeP]

I use Paint Shop Pro 9 and (bundled with it) Animation Shop 3, for which I paid about R499 / £40. I messed around for years with PSP4 and Animation 2 which are nagware, but my daughter rilly rilly rilly wanted a decent graphics program so I got this - and it is excellent. We have both been wasting hours (a day) on art, photo editing, and now animations.

[Ensign Steve]

I haven't done any smilies, but for animation I use ImageReady, which comes with Photoshop. Not free, but simple! Took me about 15 minutes to learn it and create my first animation.

[Crumb]

The program I am using is CoffeeCup GIF animator. I wouldn't recommend it though it is brain dead and starting to get on my nerves. I am certainly looking for something else.

[livius drusus]

Ulead Gif Animator costs about 50 bucks and it's what the famous darkmoon3636 of deviantART uses for her smilies. I've got the PSP/Animation Shop combo going myself.

[Ensign Steve]

darkmoon3636 is a chick?! :eek:

:doh:

[livius drusus]

Yup. I would guess a young one too, although her dA profile (http://darkmoon3636.deviantart.com/) doesn't say.

[Legs]

Ulead Gif Animator costs about 50 bucks

This is what I use too ~ Ulead Animator 5

You can download it for a trial period as well, it is not very user friendly - it's a damn miracle that I figured out how to do anything. :wtf:

[Crumb]

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~conradj/WelcomeFF3.gif

[JoeP]

They look better without the noses.

But those smiles ... I feel like I'm being welcomed by the Stepford wives. It's creepy.

Use the force, young smileysmith.

[livius drusus]

Oh so much lovelier without noses. So much. I'm totally up for uploading it as is, Stepford mouths and all. :thumbup:

[JoeP]

So they got you too, livius?

[Crumb]

Resistance its futile.