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jester dance!

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here is my first animated post. he is a tap dancing jester. (sorry about the bad picture, my animating program messes up the picture)





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I like it a lot!

I could also try to have the jester juggle/play tricks with blue/white/red round bricks.

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GillesGaer wrote:I like it a lot!

I could also try to have the jester juggle

gg

well, I can't make him juggle legos because I cant get anything in mid-air. sorry :(
but I gave this one animated balls to juggle

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Lol cool I liked the first gif, i thought it was cute. Maybe make it smaller- like avatar sized? So it can be used for avatars? :D

Careful- people may start requesting custom gifs!! ;D
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RadStar wrote:Maybe make it smaller- like avatar sized? So it can be used for avatars? :D

I'll take that as a request :lol: here you go!



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Those are quite funny! :roflol:
You would rather be building right now.
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here is a new jester dance


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break dance!


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well, not too sure about the joust. but now he is playing on one of those roll away ladders.




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These are really great!

If you are going to do a lot of these (and I assume you are, since it seems like it's something you really enjoy), I'd recommend getting a cheap tripod for your camera so that the pictures are taken from the exact same spot every time. It would really clean up the animation a lot I think, and you can find them for $10-$20 online.

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LOL break dance is great. you should use some reddish brown tiles for cardboard :lol:
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fraslund wrote:you should use some reddish brown tiles for cardboard

i don't have reddish brown :( but i do have regular old brown :)



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here he is again, doing the hula hoop this time!


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These are really fun :)

If I could offer a suggestion, I'd say maybe you should try to slow down the animations a little. The quick-moving "herky jerky" motions are not very lifelike, but they also are kinda hard to look at for more than a couple of seconds. I have no idea what the limitations of these animated images are, but maybe if you doubled or tripled the amount of frames, it would really make these top-notch! :D
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brickster, how's the frame rate of this one?



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P.S. I fixed my animating program, now the pictures gonna be better from now on.


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klorox wrote:brickster, how's the frame rate of this one?



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P.S. I fixed my animating program, now the pictures gonna be better from now on.


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Nice job, bud! It's much smoother. I like it a lot. The flower idea is good too :) Once you get a tripod and a light box, you'll be practically professional-caliber :eyebrows:
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