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Twilight Princess form she look more appealing but in creepy sort of way.

I guess they have to let him have it because he's still looking for Wisdom and Courage and The sages creeped me out to when the faces were off their body.

Dude yeah, Byrne is the best character in the whole series. No one seems know who he is though cause hardly any one plays Spirit Tracks. I actually didn't make my avatar, but I'm sure you could have someone make one if you asked nicely in the 'Graphic Requests' thread of Avatars and Signatures. I did make my sig though, and I'm kinda proud of it.

Now I remember I believe is right when he breaks the chains holding him and before the sages banish him to Twilight Realm.

Sure, but don't expect it too soon. I just finished a recent MM pic, got to draw an OoT pic for the RDC, then I can do this one, then I can do your Byrne one. Sorry about the delay on the Byrne, I wanted to get it done earlier but because I'm not used to drawing from ST I was practicing with other projects first. Thanks for you patience.

WOW! Almost 300 visits of my profile! Thank you guys! I love you all!

Fangs what are you talking about?

That seems uh......not threatening at all?

I'm glad you like it, but umm...our sig size limit is 250 px tall, that image is WAY too big for a signature ._.

I told our admin Justin to temporarily remove the images since it was really too big. He should have PMed the code he removed so you can restore the parts you want. But again, we have a limit of 800 px wide and 250 px high to avoid stretching the page.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff279/tiger_leo/germ1137---lokomo-Byrne.jpg

I hope this is something like what you wanted.

This week, I've been going to a computer camp, and I learned how to make a video game. I designed it as a Legend of Zelda game with a ton of sound tracks, but it passed the max level by 100 because of the music! I'm really fustrated, because it doesn't make sense without the music. Oh well, here's the link:http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Germ1137/1867205

Never thought of Zelda that way it's actually funny now that you mention.

Yeah I guess so and the dragon-thing is really stupid.

Alright, so here I was playing Twilight Princess in the Snowpeak Ruins, when I was like, "Why yes, Yeta, it is a pretty mirror. Yes, pretty mirror, pretty- HOLY CRAP! YOUR WHOLE FACE JUST SWITCHED AROUND!"
I did not sleep well last night.

You worked on a Zelda minigame? :3 Sounds fun! ^^ (but like a lot of work...)

Anyways, I hope you were serious when you said you wanted an explanation, because here goes nothing~! *hopes you don't get bored reading this* >_<)

So, I think a lot of people tend not to realize that photoshop allows animation to an extent....it's not its area of expertise as a program so nothing too extensive, but it does give you some options. And what I like about animating in photoshop is that it allows you to integrate animation within a design~ ^^

Now for some clarification though. I had to resort to Photoshop CS2/Imageready CS2 to make this specifically because Photoshop CS5 wouldn't let me....=_=;; I will explain about that in a second, hold on~

First, to make this, you need to have the individual image frames in the animation sequence. If you have the video it's a lot easier to get them, because you can use a video-editing software like VirtualDub (that's the one I use ^^) to extract the sequence of frames from whatever 00:00:00-00:00:00 time you input. When it extracts them, it saves every frame in the sequence as a separate image and puts it all in a folder for you. Unfortunately, I did NOT have the video footage, so I had to get the frames by screenshotting as many as a I could manually~ (I did it anyway because....there was no way I was going to give up my idea just because of that obstacle~ ) So it was basically me doing this for an hour: SCREENSHOT > PAUSE > SCREENSHOT > PAUSE > SCREENSHOT > PAUSE > SCREENSHOT and then REWIND < REWIND < REWIND < followed by SCREENSHOT > PAUSE > SCREENSHOT > PAUSE > SCREENSHOT and more REWIND < REWIND < REWIND, and then rinsing and repeating. It took a while but I managed to get a lot of the frames~ ^^

Now concerning photoshop...I hadn't realized this since I haven't done this kind of animated sig since a few years ago, but in the newer versions of photoshop, they actually have replaced the animation options it has into something different...and it wouldn't let me input the image frames into the animated sequence. =_=;; Ugh....I don't know what they were thinking. See, Photoshop CS2 used to come packaged with another program called ImageReady, where you could actually move the .PSD file you were working on back and forth between the two programs, and apparently they discontinued ImageReady in CS3 because they combined its capabilites into Photoshop. The thing is, the way this happened was sort of in the same way URA Zelda turned into Master Quest...it doesn't retain everything from the original. ImageReady had a very easy option where you could go File > Import > Folder as Frames, and it would save you a ton of heartache by taking each frame you have saved as an image in the folder you choose, and loading it on a separate layer AND as a separate frame in the animated sequence. So basically, it just takes the images and creates the animated sequence for you. ImageReady doesn't have all of the design customization options that Photoshop has however, so then you could easily move the file with the animation sequence already inputted into photoshop and continue working on it from there (you could move it back into ImageReady at any time if you wanted to also, as I mentioned before). You can then stick whatever design around it that you want (okay, this is already getting long so I'll skip elaborating here xD) but once you're done, you can go File > Save for Web (in Photoshop) or File > Save Optimized As (in ImageReady) and then save the file as a .GIF, and VOILA! You have your designed animation~ :3

The newer Photoshops tried to replace these options by including File > Import Video Frames to Layers. Now I understand how they might have thought that that would be an upgrade over importing images since you directly import the video file you want frames from, selecting what part of the video you want to import, and then have different options for working with the animation that you didn't before (or so I THINK, I actually haven't successfully tried out this "upgrade") but in all honesty I think it's actually very limiting because you're stucking being limited to inputting not only JUST video files, but only from the specific video format they allow! *shakes head* I think they should at least kept the option to input image frames if that's what you have....*grumble* *grumble* <--- intentional reference xP

Right....so in conclusion, it's possible to create animations in Photoshop, depending on....a lot of things. To enable the Animation toolbar at the bottom that isn't normally there when you open Photoshop, you just need to go Window > Animation, and it'll open for you. I hope this wasn't a confusing block of text for you (hopefully the screenshots made it more interesting xD) and hopefully it helped! ^^