couw Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 (edited) Inspired in part by the BN Screensaver and by a lazy weekend, I spend some time with photoshop and a collection of BN covers and came up with some animated covers. I hope my output will inspire others here on the board. I know there are some true animation kings among us. So let's have a ball! I like this one, but as an avatar, it belongs to Parkertown I never took the effort of inverting this great pic until now. my new avatar: my favorite "funny one": not very satisfied with this one: the very first one I made: you will buy this record.... you will buy this record... Edited November 7, 2003 by couw Quote
Man with the Golden Arm Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 FLASZCH-TAZTIQUE Quote
Jim R Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 I am in AW (as in: "Aw, I wish I could do that"). Seriously, these are fantastic. Any way of enlarging them? Greedy request, I know... Quote
Peter Johnson Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Hans, may I make Horace my new avatar? Pretty please? PJ Quote
Guest Chaney Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Absolutely BRILLIANT! I really MUST learn how to do that. Quote
Claude Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 (edited) Awesome, couw, these look fantastic. The Dexter is hilarious This is what Reid Miles would have done if Photoshop had existed back then. Edited November 3, 2003 by Claude Quote
Clunky Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 what can you do with "Good gracious" ?? these are great Quote
Claude Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Can you throw a virtual stone into the "Breaking point" cover? Quote
.:.impossible Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Those are killer! Great job! Quote
Joe Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Tres cool!!! Terry Gilliam meets Reid Miles. Gotta love it. Quote
jazzbo Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Those are really great! Thanks for sharing. Quote
BruceH Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Love 'em! The Jackie Mac, Dexter, and Dolphy are my favorites. Quote
Brad Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 This is probably a dumb question but how the heck do you do that. Thought the Milt one was really neat. Quote
mikeweil Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 couw, you deserve a BN cover honorary designer degree!!! Quote
mikeweil Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Love 'em! The .... and Dolphy are my favorites. ????????????????????? Quote
Jazzdog Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 The Hi-Voltage cover is screaming for some animation! anyone? Please? Quote
brownie Posted November 4, 2003 Report Posted November 4, 2003 Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for posting those. My favorite is 'Into Somethin' but I love the others. Let's have more when you can Quote
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couw Posted November 4, 2003 Author Report Posted November 4, 2003 I am in AW (as in: "Aw, I wish I could do that"). Seriously, these are fantastic. Any way of enlarging them? Greedy request, I know... I have larger versions, I made these avatar sized to have yet another restraint considering picture and file size. The originals are from that Japanese BN vinyl cover site and are appr. 500 pixels square and several Kbytes. I'd be happy to share them, but I don't have them with me now. I'll bring them along. Quote
couw Posted November 4, 2003 Author Report Posted November 4, 2003 Hans, may I make Horace my new avatar? Pretty please? PJ Peter: go ahead! These are for sharing, so if anyone wants to have one as an avatar, I'd be really honoured. It's John BTW, not Hans, that's that other dude from the Netherlands... :rsly: Quote
couw Posted November 4, 2003 Author Report Posted November 4, 2003 This is probably a dumb question but how the heck do you do that. Thought the Milt one was really neat. On how to do this: it's easy! You preferably need photoshop w/ ImageReady installed. There are other gif-animation programmes out there, but photoshop integrates the animation function with the coolest photo edit programme around. Then you need a lot of time... I can tell you: the idea is the EASY part, the execution can be really cumbersome. Like with the Milt cover: I had to extract each of the little balls and animate it seperately. Pity you hardly notice that in the resulting gif. The reconstruction of the background image can also be a drag (like w/ the Dexter, the Young, and the Milt). You simply make a lot of layers, each with a frame or a part of it. ImageReady lets you pick the layers you want to display, for how long, and in what order. I only really learned how to do this recently and this exercise is definitely good to improve one's skills Quote
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