Oh, cool. I needed a new avatar, and now I can do it at the same time that I join the challenge.
The 16 unique frames part might be a little hard though... Oh well, I ll think of something. :P

Gnah. So much choice.. I need to put my creative thinking cap on :)

EDIT:
Here's my WIP:



Yeah.. random XD
Wish we were allowed transparency, though :(


Edited by generatedanomaly - 21 July 2009 at 6:32am

@MFlanga: No semi-transparency/alpha blends - not even for normal gallery pieces.

@generatedanomaly: looking awesome so far. No trans means you should think about how you're going to use the whole canvas. Make him crawl over some grass or some brinks...or someone's face...etc...

@susuwataris: looking good, just make sure you play around with the timing of each frame. Some of it comes of as being in slow motion.

Lahra, Nice. But, what will you do for the other 8 frames?  Needs 16 at least.

Wow, so many entries so far. :P
I couldnt think of anything to do though.

But usually the challenge thread would already have two pages by now. And this one has less than 10 posts.

it would look cool if u added a detailed brick wall and it climbs up the wall and maybe catch something with its tounge

Yeah. Its at least 16 unique frames, but there is no maximum amount. You could have 100 unique frames if you wanted to.

This is mine, it has 48 frames, every frame is fully AAed and it has 5 colors.

This is my entry for the challenge,
I hope you like it.

It's the The impatient Butler

Edited by Lahra - 25 July 2009 at 6:31am

Manjaman, that's impressive!!!
Gosh, I thought I would win! :(
I've just spent weeks days on ImageReady, I hate that stuff. It is just as tricky and unfriendly as Photoshop is friendly and untricky.
I thought I had found its nastiest traps, but no, several more sprang under my poor pixels just tonight. Grrr.

OK, I looked at your anim. Loading it in IR, the frames are timed at 0. I don't know exactly what it means by that, because it sure is not instant; I don't think it is the right way to make it fast.

I made 3 edits, at 0,01 (lowest possible after 0), 0,03 and 0,05s.

Viewed in ACDSee (which is a bugtrap with anims anyway), 0,01 is really fast! (when 0 in fact is not); 0,03 is fast but smooth (sometimes), maybe what you need; 0,05 is about what you did.

In Firefox3 though (esp mine which is ultra-slow), it has problems with 0,01, but 0,03 is perfectly smooth (I guess this has to do with their lousy useless pixel-killing interpolation, discussed elsewhere). Let's see if this confirms after uploading these.

0,01:     0,03:     0,05:  

Well, on the prieview it's really FF3-choppy... I'll give it a look in IE - I very much hate Mozilla for having to write this.

Fantastic, I think I'd be able to make something cool with the 0,03. Thank you veeeeeery much, you're my saviour !
(EDIT : the 0,05 duration seems to be quite good for the effect I'm researching. Once again, thanks Manupix !)


Edited by Manjaman - 26 July 2009 at 2:05am

The final result will appear approximately like that :

Don't worry it was planned since the beginning (I have proofs ^.^)...

EDIT : Ok, I think it's finished -.-"
Tell me if you see some mistakes.





Edited by Manjaman - 26 July 2009 at 1:17pm

Looking great. This challenge is yours.

Btw, I think it cant be played the way it is on image ready because there is a max speed on most browsers, or something.