We suggest you guys get photohop and carefully crop a Santa hat and put it on the avvie strategically. How to animate...that I don't know.
It's complicated. In gimp, basically I either take screen-captures from video, or I draw every frame by hand (which is not QUITE as bad as it sounds). Oftentimes, it works like stopframe animation - move something, take a picture, move something, take a picture - etc. That's how I make snow; I just have a top layer of "snow" that's really a white "nightsky" brush, and I slowly move it over whatever is the background, taking pictures, so to speak, as I go.
Sure, Kev, I'll do that for you as soon as the weekend rolls around (which will be the day after tomorrow).
Tomorrow, we have our school's adult Christmas party. We (the staff of the school and whichever adult students manage to show up) are going out to an Italian restaurant and getting solidly drunk, excepting myself and one other staff member. Then my British co-worker and I are going out with one of our students to an after-party-party, which will involve yet more drinking and karaoke. Whee? I always feel slightly odd going to these things since I don't drink alcohol, but what the hey. I do love to sing karaoke.
Tomorrow, we have our school's adult Christmas party. We (the staff of the school and whichever adult students manage to show up) are going out to an Italian restaurant and getting solidly drunk, excepting myself and one other staff member. Then my British co-worker and I are going out with one of our students to an after-party-party, which will involve yet more drinking and karaoke. Whee? I always feel slightly odd going to these things since I don't drink alcohol, but what the hey. I do love to sing karaoke.
That sounds like great fun. Even if you don't drink, you get the entertainment of watching drunk people interact with other drunk people. Karaoke is another family tradition of mine which I... "forgot". Every Christmas... Hotel Caallifforrnia....
Don't forget Winter Solstice! My girlfriend is Wiccan--while she exchanges gifts and stuff on Christmas, she celebrates the magic of winter during the solstice.
I'm having trouble animating snow. I had it all cool and stuff last night!
As for me, I am celebrating Festivus in addition to Christmas. Not to mention Decemberween.
It's okay Alacar, I don't need it. And now I am wondering if he would look cuter without or with snow, but I don't want to put you through all the trouble of making it and then be like I don't like it with snow. But thanks, it is the thought that counts.
My stance on the holidays is I will celebrate anything where I get food, presents, or get to hang out with the peaple I like. It's good not to be picky.
Nice holiday inspired avatars everyone! I'd throw a hat on Walter but I'm afraid of screwing up L_G's hard work. It took him 4 months to make my avvy and I don't want to mess it up myself XD.
Last night my entire suite decided to have a suite bonding night, so we all got drunk together. It was nice, not because of the booze, but because the six of us rarely do anything together. It was a good bonding experience if you ask me.
Sweet work...ummm...al? not sure but....Can ya put a santa hat on Sedris and make him say hohoho?
Sorry...snow dun fit in Grixis unless Sedris says What the....
I can give it a shot, but it won't be the cool animated avvy you use right now, so.. save it and keep it for after the holidays.
Today is the day of the city's Christmas parade! With any luck I'll be able to go with my girlfriend, and maybe see the Star Wars cosplayers that were here last year!
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How's this, DNC? I'm getting better at this animating snow stuff.
Hey, that's pretty good. You are getting better at snow. That's about as good as I can do. Not to say there's a whole lotta difference between "decent snow" and "fantastic snow", if you can call it that, cause there's not - what you see there is more or less as good as it gets - and you've got the technique down pat, looks like.
Good to see everyone doing pretty well this upcoming holiday season! I'm at Brad's house and he's just gotten back from work... Anyway, he wants the computer, but yeah, Ally, I think I want the Santa Danica avatar, and it wouldn't make sense if you had it too No offense or anything, she IS your creation and all. Technically
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I personally have so much work to do this weekend that there is a good chance that I won't ever be leaving the couch. 3 final papers and a speech to give within the next 10 days. It's quite brutal. But, I shall persevere as I love being here, even if that means a ton of things due withing a short time frame.
@Ala: You really have gotten a lot better with the animated snow. Nice work!
Good luck. As for me, well, we had the aforementioned party yesterday night. It was fun - as expected, everybody there except me got amazingly drunk. At the after-party, one guy just passed out solid, and we had to spend a good five minutes getting him awake again when it was time to go home (at 1:20 in the morning). Goodness. We had fun, anyway, and...
Confession: I have a crush. I asked a girl to come to the party via e-mail who had said she wasn't going to come... and she came. I got to spend some time with her; she came with us to the after-party, which was basically us going out to sing karaoke.
Now... I don't know what to think today... I don't like that she smokes, and normally I would say she's not my type, but... as they say, love is blind. Sigh... I've basically been in a funk all day... This... I want to say "crush"... has re-opened parts of my awareness that I'd been trying to keep firmly closed - mostly the parts involved in ignoring the fact that I am utterly alone in a foreign country - and having such a stark contrast between being out with someone I like and can connect with (a friend, even)... and then spending the rest of the weekend by myself... I was in the grocery store today and just started crying. Must have seemed strange to people, but... damn. I can't stop thinking about this girl.
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It's complicated. In gimp, basically I either take screen-captures from video, or I draw every frame by hand (which is not QUITE as bad as it sounds). Oftentimes, it works like stopframe animation - move something, take a picture, move something, take a picture - etc. That's how I make snow; I just have a top layer of "snow" that's really a white "nightsky" brush, and I slowly move it over whatever is the background, taking pictures, so to speak, as I go.
Sure, Kev, I'll do that for you as soon as the weekend rolls around (which will be the day after tomorrow).
Tomorrow, we have our school's adult Christmas party. We (the staff of the school and whichever adult students manage to show up) are going out to an Italian restaurant and getting solidly drunk, excepting myself and one other staff member. Then my British co-worker and I are going out with one of our students to an after-party-party, which will involve yet more drinking and karaoke. Whee? I always feel slightly odd going to these things since I don't drink alcohol, but what the hey. I do love to sing karaoke.
That sounds like great fun. Even if you don't drink, you get the entertainment of watching drunk people interact with other drunk people. Karaoke is another family tradition of mine which I... "forgot". Every Christmas... Hotel Caallifforrnia....
Hanukkah... what were the rest?
As for me, I am celebrating Festivus in addition to Christmas. Not to mention Decemberween.
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Well besides Christmas and Hanukkan, I know there is Kwanzaa.
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It's okay Alacar, I don't need it. And now I am wondering if he would look cuter without or with snow, but I don't want to put you through all the trouble of making it and then be like I don't like it with snow. But thanks, it is the thought that counts.
My stance on the holidays is I will celebrate anything where I get food, presents, or get to hang out with the peaple I like. It's good not to be picky.
Last night my entire suite decided to have a suite bonding night, so we all got drunk together. It was nice, not because of the booze, but because the six of us rarely do anything together. It was a good bonding experience if you ask me.
What are everyone's plans for the weekend?
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I'll look and see and give it a try. If I could get the full-resolution image of Jace that would be good.
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Well its like one more day until my birthday and ill be going to a sushi restraunt which will be free for me to go in and eat so that will be great.
Also its great I actually got another cookie for once its been a long while since I got the hundreth cookie post in here.
Its also getting late here so I think I am going to log off MTGS for the night. Have a goodnight everyone and see you all later.
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Sorry...snow dun fit in Grixis unless Sedris says What the....
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Today is the day of the city's Christmas parade! With any luck I'll be able to go with my girlfriend, and maybe see the Star Wars cosplayers that were here last year!
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Hey, that's pretty good. You are getting better at snow. That's about as good as I can do. Not to say there's a whole lotta difference between "decent snow" and "fantastic snow", if you can call it that, cause there's not - what you see there is more or less as good as it gets - and you've got the technique down pat, looks like.
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I personally have so much work to do this weekend that there is a good chance that I won't ever be leaving the couch. 3 final papers and a speech to give within the next 10 days. It's quite brutal. But, I shall persevere as I love being here, even if that means a ton of things due withing a short time frame.
@Ala: You really have gotten a lot better with the animated snow. Nice work!
Dominarian ice age to the new Snowy Grixis.
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I went to the Christmas Parade in town with my girlfriend, and we had a blast. She even bought us little lightsabers! We're such geeks.
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Confession: I have a crush. I asked a girl to come to the party via e-mail who had said she wasn't going to come... and she came. I got to spend some time with her; she came with us to the after-party, which was basically us going out to sing karaoke.