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March 27, 2010
Suggester said "the way Conquering the Elements by ~Wooded-Wolf morphs so smoothly into each element is amazing to me. the creator obviously put quite a bit of effort into it and it shows. plus, even though I've seen the elements as a theme for drawings, sculptures, and such before, I've never seen it used as a theme for an emoticon. so it's very original." I just want to add that it amazes me to think that all of the frames were made in Microsoft Paint.
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This could probably do with some tweaking but for now it's done. I've been working on this on off for a few days, it didn't take too long though.
So I gave myself the arduous challenge of representing 8 elements in one emote. A lot of emoticonists say they have problems trying to animate the elements and I have the same problem. Fire's my main enemy in all of this..
Anyway I think I've done an okay job at this, it's not perfect obviously and it didn't go exactly as planned but it will do for now. My favourite stage is where the earth breaks away because that looked great in stages. The water reforming and the little tornado aren't great but I threw together the tornado without any kind of maths so I didn't expect it to go great.
So I've represented in order: fire, metal, earth, wood, water, ice, air, lightning. All of the effects I've used are new and experimental or ones I rarely use. Particularly the fire, the shine on the metal, the sand building up, the earth shattering, the unfolding of the bud, the water, the ice melting, the lightning and the sparks. So most of it. I've done colour transitions before and rotation and revolutions so the ice and air are the least experimental parts.
All of this was made in paint. ALL OF IT. Sorry if I stress that alot I just like to point out that you don't need layers to do this kind of thing. It was all hand pixelled and was bloody annoying. I'm sorry if it's a little fast in places, it didn't look this fast in the program.
Frames Made in Microsoft Paint, turned into an animation in Beneton Movie GIF
Frame Count: 153
Enjoy. Now I can get food...
Edit: I leave for 2 weeks and get a DD
Thankyou
and 
!!!
So I gave myself the arduous challenge of representing 8 elements in one emote. A lot of emoticonists say they have problems trying to animate the elements and I have the same problem. Fire's my main enemy in all of this..
Anyway I think I've done an okay job at this, it's not perfect obviously and it didn't go exactly as planned but it will do for now. My favourite stage is where the earth breaks away because that looked great in stages. The water reforming and the little tornado aren't great but I threw together the tornado without any kind of maths so I didn't expect it to go great.
So I've represented in order: fire, metal, earth, wood, water, ice, air, lightning. All of the effects I've used are new and experimental or ones I rarely use. Particularly the fire, the shine on the metal, the sand building up, the earth shattering, the unfolding of the bud, the water, the ice melting, the lightning and the sparks. So most of it. I've done colour transitions before and rotation and revolutions so the ice and air are the least experimental parts.
All of this was made in paint. ALL OF IT. Sorry if I stress that alot I just like to point out that you don't need layers to do this kind of thing. It was all hand pixelled and was bloody annoying. I'm sorry if it's a little fast in places, it didn't look this fast in the program.
Frames Made in Microsoft Paint, turned into an animation in Beneton Movie GIF
Frame Count: 153
Enjoy. Now I can get food...
Edit: I leave for 2 weeks and get a DD
Thankyou
and !!!Image size
55x55px 36.44 KB
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Overall Vision Originality
Technique ImpactWow, this is amazing!
The animation is really, really smooth and I love the effects.
The tornado is especially awesome--I love the way it got bigger and smaller. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/l/l…" width="19" height="19" alt="
" title="La la la la - "/>I also love when the water falls. It's extremely smooth and was very easy to understand what it was.
The only real problems I have with this is the fire looks too stiff and, well. Not like fire. It needs to be less controlled, and the way you looped the frames there just made it look even more stiff.
The beginning of the loop where the emote is first brought in seems a bit weird for me too. Maybe it just needs to be faster, but it seemed choppy.
Everything else was amazing, though.
Great emote overall, love the idea behind it.
It was well worth all the time you made me wait for it. xD