asterroc ([personal profile] asterroc) wrote2006-05-16 12:00 am
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Make with the Eco-Funny!

Today's Questionable Content is quite amusing. Now I want an animated gif icon made out of that last panel - three stills, one each with the appropriate character and speech bubble, in appropriate order. I don't know that the text would be readable though. And it's my bedtime. Anyone else feel like doing it? :-P

[identity profile] l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com 2006-05-17 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
i'll do it i'll do it i'll do it!!!! yayfor QC!

[identity profile] l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com 2006-05-17 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
er. Marten's and Dora's speech bubbles overlap each other...do you want me to paint out the other's bubble in their respective frames? or i could have it scan across the panel, rather than do the three stills...

[identity profile] l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com 2006-05-17 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Image

well, there you go. i couldn't really get it so all of a character's head and speech bubble were in the same frame with the text readable...Raven's is more readable because her speech bubble is smaller. tell me if you want me to make one scanning across the panel, i'd be able to make the text more readable...but it would also be a bigger file and i'd have to be careful with LJ's size limits.

i set it 1 second for Marten and Dora, 2 seconds for Raven. i can speed it up or slow it down if you like. also, i've noticed that gifs move faster in Safari than in Firefox, at least for me...not sure why that is.

[identity profile] zandperl.livejournal.com 2006-05-17 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee. :)

I'd say longer for all - maybe 5 seconds for each?, however long it takes for someone not familiar with the comic to read them. And can throw in a second of black to indicate when it cycles thru each time.

Scanning across the panel might make it more readable; that'd give it an entirely different effect. If you feel like giving it a shot, I won't stop you. :) As for more file space, give Flickr a try for hosting images.

Or what about doing more photoshop tricks to rearrange the words in the speech bubbles and enlarge them? :-P

[identity profile] zandperl.livejournal.com 2006-05-17 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Kinda like this icon of [livejournal.com profile] iresprite's from Penny-Arcade:


[identity profile] l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com 2006-05-18 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
oh, i have free hosting, i'm just concerned about if you want to use it as an LJ icon, because they don't let you have gifs more than a certain file size.

okay, so three more versions...a scanning one, this one slowed down, and a text-enlarged version...i have a limited amount of internet time here but i'll work on them tonight and have at least two, hopefully three done by tomorrow morning. :-)

[identity profile] zandperl.livejournal.com 2006-05-18 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! You really don't have to, I'm being so demanding. :) Man, now I'm gonna hafta remove a couple of icons. Well, they're getting old anyways.

[identity profile] l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com 2006-05-19 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
uploaded here (http://www.murmurs.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1620456&postcount=20)...