So, I have some favourite models. :love7: Over the past year or so, I've spent a little time making animated emotes to show that I like them without, okay, well, in addition to tipping. :roll:
I thought I'd share a few of them with y'all and tell you what tools I used to make them. There are some complicated ones which I'm happy with that I made for a few regulars in my favourites' rooms, but since they're not members here and I made the emotes on my own, I thought it best to leave those out of a public thread like this one. If anyone knows of good text animation tools for this kind of stuff or has tips, preferably with examples, I'd be very happy to learn about them. If anyone would like to see my awful colonoscopy emote, that didn't make it past MFC approval, it's kicking around in another thread, and if you're really curious, you can search my posts and find it. Google brings you to any programs you may find of interest.
Here's a simple one that I've already posted. I think this was my first one. Made at mybannermaker.com. The free version of any bannermakers come with a logo, so all you have to do is make the basic image a little taller than you really need, and then cut off the excess in any image editing program. I use GIMP, because it's free and I'm used to it now. I use GIMP to finish all my emotes, mostly to get the animation timing the way I like it, but also to scale, crop, etc. You pick an image, add a border if you want, superimpose your text in the font of your choice and add an effect, in this case sparkles. Easy peasy. Svetlanochka is currently going as SlothYawn for reasons that escape me.
These I made with SWFBanner and GIMP. You chose your background image, type in your text, and choose your text animation. You can animate multiple blocks of text and use different animation types to make your them appear and disappear, or you can skip the animations. With SWFBanner, you can output to GIF, AVI or Flash. This program is kind of old and no longer maintained. It's optimized for Flash, not bitmaps, so the resulting GIF files can be a little jerky unless you speed them up a lot. I've figured out a workaround, but it doesn't show up in these examples. The Flash files look great. MFC only accepts GIF animations, as far as I know, but you can use the other types elsewhere, such as in movie titles. MFC displays member animations up to 50 pixels high, so that is why these are so small.
This is an old one made at screedbot. It's very basic. You can choose width, font size, and colours, and that's it.
This I done at FunPhotoBox.com. Choose an animation or effect, upload and frame your photo, and you're done, unless you want to add text, as I did here using GIMP. There are a lot of examples of these images on MFC profiles and they're really, really nice and very fast and easy to make.
Empruss69 and SlothYawn together, just because they're together. :love4: I won't get into capture programs, as they've been abused. The one I use allows you to output to GIF, and once you have that, it's a matter of using a program like GIMP to crop it to size, scale, trim and time. This type of animation can result in very large file sizes, so either you have to reduce the frame rate, or scale them down a lot, just to upload them to Imgur or someplace, unless you have a paid account. Even then, if the file is too big, it takes a long time to load in MFC chat. If it's way too big, it won't load on MFC.
Here's another one of Empruss69, just because she looks so gorgeous.
That's all for now. I hope that it will be of some use to anyone who wants to have some fun with emotes. If anyone would like to see some other examples done with SWFBanner, send me a PM.
I thought I'd share a few of them with y'all and tell you what tools I used to make them. There are some complicated ones which I'm happy with that I made for a few regulars in my favourites' rooms, but since they're not members here and I made the emotes on my own, I thought it best to leave those out of a public thread like this one. If anyone knows of good text animation tools for this kind of stuff or has tips, preferably with examples, I'd be very happy to learn about them. If anyone would like to see my awful colonoscopy emote, that didn't make it past MFC approval, it's kicking around in another thread, and if you're really curious, you can search my posts and find it. Google brings you to any programs you may find of interest.
Here's a simple one that I've already posted. I think this was my first one. Made at mybannermaker.com. The free version of any bannermakers come with a logo, so all you have to do is make the basic image a little taller than you really need, and then cut off the excess in any image editing program. I use GIMP, because it's free and I'm used to it now. I use GIMP to finish all my emotes, mostly to get the animation timing the way I like it, but also to scale, crop, etc. You pick an image, add a border if you want, superimpose your text in the font of your choice and add an effect, in this case sparkles. Easy peasy. Svetlanochka is currently going as SlothYawn for reasons that escape me.
These I made with SWFBanner and GIMP. You chose your background image, type in your text, and choose your text animation. You can animate multiple blocks of text and use different animation types to make your them appear and disappear, or you can skip the animations. With SWFBanner, you can output to GIF, AVI or Flash. This program is kind of old and no longer maintained. It's optimized for Flash, not bitmaps, so the resulting GIF files can be a little jerky unless you speed them up a lot. I've figured out a workaround, but it doesn't show up in these examples. The Flash files look great. MFC only accepts GIF animations, as far as I know, but you can use the other types elsewhere, such as in movie titles. MFC displays member animations up to 50 pixels high, so that is why these are so small.
This is an old one made at screedbot. It's very basic. You can choose width, font size, and colours, and that's it.
This I done at FunPhotoBox.com. Choose an animation or effect, upload and frame your photo, and you're done, unless you want to add text, as I did here using GIMP. There are a lot of examples of these images on MFC profiles and they're really, really nice and very fast and easy to make.
Empruss69 and SlothYawn together, just because they're together. :love4: I won't get into capture programs, as they've been abused. The one I use allows you to output to GIF, and once you have that, it's a matter of using a program like GIMP to crop it to size, scale, trim and time. This type of animation can result in very large file sizes, so either you have to reduce the frame rate, or scale them down a lot, just to upload them to Imgur or someplace, unless you have a paid account. Even then, if the file is too big, it takes a long time to load in MFC chat. If it's way too big, it won't load on MFC.
Here's another one of Empruss69, just because she looks so gorgeous.
That's all for now. I hope that it will be of some use to anyone who wants to have some fun with emotes. If anyone would like to see some other examples done with SWFBanner, send me a PM.
