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Made an avatar for @Dean Williams

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probably one of the cooler threads I have seen on sherdog in how ever many years ive been here. Bravo OP!

Sadly my Avatar doesn't have a face, the focus was elsewhere. lol!
 
@Slobodan come get your avatar brah!!! Merry Christmas from the Shoopers!!

All the snow and stuff added a little extra file size. Now much. I optimized it the best I could to. Let me know if you need ti smaller, but that will degrade the quality somewhat.

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@Slobodan come get your avatar brah!!! Merry Christmas from the Shoopers!!

All the snow and stuff added a little extra file size. Now much. I optimized it the best I could to. Let me know if you need ti smaller, but that will degrade the quality somewhat.

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Whoa thank you man, wasn't expecting this! What a nice surprise, I'm floored. Appreciate it so much :)

I'm changing it now.
 
Whoa thank you man, wasn't expecting this! What a nice surprise, I'm floored. Appreciate it so much :)

I'm changing it now.

Thanks Lt. Dan. Glad you like it. Wanted to take the tropicalness out of it and somehow give it a Winter look.

My favorite part, besides the girl, is making her hair go over Santa when she flicks it. OK it's only 3 frames, but it had to be done to get the seal of approval. :D

That's amazing, Sher-brother. Merry Christmas!!

Thanks brother Dick!!
 
@Slobodan come get your avatar brah!!! Merry Christmas from the Shoopers!!

All the snow and stuff added a little extra file size. Now much. I optimized it the best I could to. Let me know if you need ti smaller, but that will degrade the quality somewhat.

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you're a GIF-master! this is high-end stuff.
How many frames was the whole thing?
 
you're a GIF-master! this is high-end stuff.
How many frames was the whole thing?

210 frames. It was sorta hard but not too bad. The ocean/sky was turned to a white color via Hue/Sat/Lightness on the Cyans/Blue. At that point I had no clue what I was making or why. I was thinking of somehow making it look more like winter.

Then there was that rock. Had to mask all 210 frames in order to put the candy cane (below) as an Overlay layer. That wasn't so bad in this case as I was able to track the rock with Mocha (Mocha is part of AE). Basically you outline the rock (w/ sort of a pen tool) and Mocha "tracks" the movement of the rock. At times you have to stop the tracking and readjust the "nodes" (those are basically the same nodes on a Pen Tool in PS) and then start tracking again. Now you have your mask for the canycane. Not too bad.

Then added Santa to the candy cane rock and did some manual puppet warp. I'm only telling you all this because with your skill set you probably can "imagine" the process in your head.


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Thanks!

Dude that is epic!!! I made the Grinch as a joke but you turned the tables and came out victorious. I busted out laughing IRL brah. Most I've laughed in a couple of days. :D

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210 frames. It was sorta hard but not too bad. The ocean/sky was turned to a white color via Hue/Sat/Lightness on the Cyans/Blue. At that point I had no clue what I was making or why. I was thinking of somehow making it look more like winter.

Then there was that rock. Had to mask all 210 frames in order to put the candy cane (below) as an Overlay layer. That wasn't so bad in this case as I was able to track the rock with Mocha (Mocha is part of AE). Basically you outline the rock (w/ sort of a pen tool) and Mocha "tracks" the movement of the rock. At times you have to stop the tracking and readjust the "nodes" (those are basically the same nodes on a Pen Tool in PS) and then start tracking again. Now you have your mask for the canycane. Not too bad.

Then added Santa to the candy cane rock and did some manual puppet warp. I'm only telling you all this because with your skill set you probably can "imagine" the process in your head.


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Puppet Warp is a powerful tool for sure.
Yeah the AE tracking stuff is new for me as I've never used After Effects but I've heard it's really clever and can do all kinds of advanced stuff. I think I will have to definitely dedicate some time in 2022 to learning it -- I might have to watch a series of nerdy AE youtube vids or even maybe buy a book (a real book! made from dead trees! I do like those!!!) about it. Various people have said it's hard to learn.
Also I should bite the bullet and upgrade my PS. I'm still on....wait for it.... PS CS6. It's kinda ancient.
I know I'm missing out on some clever tools.
 
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