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[creamcorn]

your paper is dusty

[tmk]

i think he's referring to the image on the first page with the guy in the desert

[rtil]

wow

[dilly]

wow

my initial reaction as well

[rtil]

unused effect from lighthouse girl. i think it looks pretty cool but i'll be using a particle system for it instead

[Hnilmik]

Sparkley~

[MarcK]

Nice particles. I'd use the hell out of it if I made it.

[shura]

how did you make it?

[rtil]

there are three rotating symbols with gold colored streaks all around them, then a mask at the top made up of dots. when the mask moves the opposite direction of the symbols, the dots go in and out as the mask goes by them, giving the illusion that they're sparkling

[MarcK]

I would never have guessed. some of them look fbf to me.

[Fuzz]

there are three rotating symbols with gold colored streaks all around them, then a mask at the top made up of dots. when the mask moves the opposite direction of the symbols, the dots go in and out as the mask goes by them, giving the illusion that they're sparkling

How do you figure stuff like this out?

[rtil]

it's a variation on a trick that classic animators used to use to create effects like sun glares on the water, where they'd have a black frame with holes poked in it go across another frame with some white streaks. it makes a very convincing effect for water. i just took their method and turned it into a spinner. it's called a slotgag. hard to find information on it - it's kind of been lost in time, along with a lot of the projection methods

[Hnilmik]

it's a variation on a trick that classic animators used to use to create effects like sun glares on the water, where they'd have a black frame with holes poked in it go across another frame with some white streaks. it makes a very convincing effect for water. i just took their method and turned it into a spinner. it's called a slotgag. hard to find information on it - it's kind of been lost in time, along with a lot of the projection methods

I'm kinda envisioning those framed moving-waterfall and radiating-Jesus/Saint/Buddha/Bodhisattva pictures you might find in Chinatown, 99 cent stores, and often cheaply decorated restaurants and offices. I'm not sure if they use the same idea, but if they do, it is somewhat easier than it looks.

[rtil]

yeah, sorta like that. it's a simple trick that goes a long way. the best animators had the biggest bag of tricks

[shura]

thats so cool. you should make a tutorial or something for all of these neat little things

[rtil]

i want to when i launch the new tba, which will hopefully be in late december/early january

[emanhattan]

That looks amazing

and it doesnt look like something you would actually learn at school (at least I dont think at mine)
I would totally enjoy and use frequently a tutorials section with stuff like this... when its up that is!

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

fartz

[mexifry]

That looks amazing

and it doesnt look like something you would actually learn at school (at least I dont think at mine)
I would totally enjoy and use frequently a tutorials section with stuff like this... when its up that is!

That did look really cool.
Im terrible at effects, so when you have the tutorials up, I can finally learns something on them. hehe

[psi43]

it's a variation on a trick that classic animators used to use to create effects like sun glares on the water, where they'd have a black frame with holes poked in it go across another frame with some white streaks. it makes a very convincing effect for water. i just took their method and turned it into a spinner. it's called a slotgag. hard to find information on it - it's kind of been lost in time, along with a lot of the projection methods

Yeah it's a pretty cool effect, first time I heard about it was (I think) at some tutorial Adam Phillips made. It was really great and I fucked around a lot with it.

Nice work.