Looking For Practice: Avatar Requests

[Harakh]

I'm a newb to editing beyond record and post - only dabbled a few times over the years. Spent some time today grabbing CoH player avatars to practice a bit.

Going to post in the following comments each before and after.

If you have an avatar that I may want to practice on go ahead and post it.

If the end result comes out decent - feel free to use it.
 

Thanks in advance for the inspiration

[Harakh]

   ------------------------- @Fire Chief ---------------------------------

[Harakh]

-------------------------------------- @Nando  -----------------------------------------------  

 

 

Woke up with Nando on the mind - needed to try some adjustments:

 

Edited April 25, 2023 by Harakh

[Harakh]

Had tougher time making this one look nice >.<

--------------------------------------- @kwsapphire  -----------------------------------------------------

[Harakh]

(I know you're already using yours - just documenting ❤️ )

 

------------------------------------- @Goddess Laucianna -------------------------------------------------

 

 

slight color change ----------------->

 

 

Laucianna Part 2:

 

Had a return visitor. Here was the outcome: 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2023 by Harakh
3rd gif

[Trike]

Can you animate mine?

 

Roll in, fire off lasers or missiles, roll out?

 

Or the low-key version: just roll in, pause, roll out. Doing a wheelie! 😎

 

[Laucianna]

5 hours ago, Harakh said:

(I know you're already using yours - just documenting ❤️ )

 

------------------------------------- @Goddess Laucianna -------------------------------------------------

I love it lol! ❤️

 

 - Lauci x

[Harakh]

7 hours ago, Trike said:

Can you animate mine?

 

Roll in, fire off lasers or missiles, roll out?

 

Or the low-key version: just roll in, pause, roll out. Doing a wheelie! 😎

 

Lolol! Oh man I'll see what I can learn 😂😂

[Harakh]

On 4/24/2023 at 11:52 PM, Trike said:

Can you animate mine?

 

Roll in, fire off lasers or missiles, roll out?

 

Or the low-key version: just roll in, pause, roll out. Doing a wheelie! 😎

 

 

 

I had to upgrade your trike wheels - also had to cut the editing session short... friend... airport.. enough said. Thanks for the odd request really got my gears greased:

I want to brighten it for sure and Ill try to get the wheelie in if I can ^.^ ... and try to add more of the back side red bar back into the pic

 

-------------------------------- @Trike ------------------------------------

 

 

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@Trike maybe not a Hollywood Blockbuster however we covered it rolling in, shooting lasers, and the wheelie.

 

Thoughts?

 

... the trike needs to come down at the end a little bit Im thinking its tough making the tilt look natural. I have an idea think Ill give it a try later.

 

 

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                                                 (attempt #2)                                                (attempt#3)            /       little zoom action mid clip

Edited April 27, 2023 by Harakh
attempt#3

[Trike]

It’s already 3/4 awesome. I have faith in you! 😎

 

Many years ago when I worked at a plaque-making company I would ask the designer for all kinds of stuff and he would go, “I can’t do that,” and I would say it should be doable, to which he would respond, “Yes, but *I* can’t do it!” 😆

 

…and then he’d figure out how to do the thing. So all these decades later, I’m still consistent.

[Harakh]

@Trike So I kept to the challenge and used your pic again...

 

I kept the tires and front peddles this time... almost wish I hadn't but wanted it to look as much as possible like original model.

 

 

 

Currently stumped by the trike always blurs when the sequence is playing unlike other pics I've messed with :

 

paused 

 

 

 

action

 

 

If anyone sees this and knows I'd appreciate any tips ^.^

 

 

 

-------------------------->     light/dark     ---- >  

                                                                                                                                                 Little extra  zoom action

Edited April 27, 2023 by Harakh

[Trike]

Awesome & hilarious! Excellent work. 😎

[Harakh]

30 minutes ago, Trike said:

Awesome & hilarious! Excellent work. 😎

 

Thanks for the chance to learn something new. It was a really fun & funny idea 😄

[Mr. Apocalypse]

here is mine, see what you can do. 🙂

 

[Harakh]

20 hours ago, Mr. Apocalypse said:

here is mine, see what you can do. 🙂

 

 

 

Thanks for the request. Here's what I pulled together. As you can see from the forum I'll most likely go back and improve as I can

 

 

   --------------------------- @Mr. Apocalypse ----------------------->

 

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                                                                                                                                                    #2

        brought out color in dude a bit more                                             Wanted longer nado animato but it lags out gif (current state)

                                                                                                        (damn didnt notice the subtle eye glow is out of sync now will fix that asap)

 

 

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Noooope see the masking error over the right shoulder... one more time lol...

                             #3 synced eye glow

                            (other small edits)

 

 

I want to find a better background. I just recorded that one from a street in CoV. Also try to soften the edges to the flames around his head.

 

The glowing eyes, yes or no? Any thoughts?

 

 

 

Edited April 28, 2023 by Harakh
#3

[Mr. Apocalypse]

53 minutes ago, Harakh said:

 

 

Thanks for the request. Here's what I pulled together. As you can see from the forum I'll most likely go back and improve as I can

 

 

   --------------------------- @Mr. Apocalypse ----------------------->

 

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        brought out color in dude a bit more

 

I want to find a better background. I just recorded that one from a street in CoV. Also try to soften the edges to the flames around his head.

 

The glowing eyes, yes or no? Any thoughts?

 

 

 

I like it. The little fire in the background is a nice touch. The glowing eyes are so subtle, I almost missed them.

[biostem]

On 4/25/2023 at 1:12 AM, Harakh said:

If you have an avatar that I may want to practice on go ahead and post it.

I'd love to see if you could give mine a go;  It's actually from way back around the launch of CoH, before I knew you could freely rotate the character, so I hit rest which locks you in place, to get the shot!  :-)

 

 

 

Edited April 28, 2023 by biostem

[Harakh]

11 hours ago, biostem said:

I'd love to see if you could give mine a go;  It's actually from way back around the launch of CoH, before I knew you could freely rotate the character, so I hit rest which locks you in place, to get the shot!  🙂

 

 

 

 

Letting it stew for a few minutes. Is there a specific class/powerset associated with the pic?

[biostem]

33 minutes ago, Harakh said:

Letting it stew for a few minutes. Is there a specific class/powerset associated with the pic?

He's a dark melee/regen scrapper.  The concept is he's basically got a symbiotic alien plant in him/merged with him.

[Harakh]

@Mr. Apocalypse

 

Ok fixed the masking issue over the shoulder.

 

Asked prematurely so now I'll ask again  >.< What do you think?

 

 

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If i get a chance I want to try to sync the background better like the first fire tornado version.

Edited April 28, 2023 by Harakh

[Harakh]

 

Here is where I'm sitting atm after a few background switches, and debating aura effects on him too I just hesitate to over use them in gifs >.<

 

 

   ---------------------------------> @biostem ----------------------------------------->  

 

 

 

 

(speed variations) --------------------------> @biostem -------------------------------->     /  

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                          slow       fast

 

 

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                               Less busy background as requested - also recorded out of CoH - Eden

       (Id call this at 98% done - my computer is fighting me while trying to work on this gif)

 

 

 

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@biostem

 Took a few minutes to fix this guy where I could without restarting. The background reset was jarring. So I copied the background and reversed it to keep the trees flowing, and without notice to anything weird going on in the water. At least not to my poor eyes. To keep the file size small enough I had to speed it up.

 

 

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                                    (another attempt to iron it out )

 

Edited May 4, 2023 by Harakh

[Harakh]

@biostem oh dang I forgot to check gif file sizes on some before I finished so its not going to let you use that one if you were going to - will update

 

[Mr. Apocalypse]

5 hours ago, Harakh said:

@Mr. Apocalypse

 

Ok fixed the masking issue over the shoulder.

 

Asked prematurely so now I'll ask again  >.< What do you think?

 

 

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If i get a chance I want to try to sync the background better like the first fire tornado version.

Honestly I liked the first one the best with the flaming building in the background. On this latest revision the background flames don't seem to meld very well with the per-existing drawn in flames.

[Harakh]

13 hours ago, Mr. Apocalypse said:

Honestly I liked the first one the best with the flaming building in the background. On this latest revision the background flames don't seem to meld very well with the per-existing drawn in flames.

 

Now that you're using the first one. Me too.

Let me know if you envision a change or two.

 

[Harakh]

14 hours ago, Harakh said:

@biostem oh dang I forgot to check gif file sizes on some before I finished so its not going to let you use that one if you were going to - will update

 

 

@biostem

 

Nothing else came to mind between yesterday and now so let me know if you'd like to see any changes (i.e. can add some flickering to the body, eyes, or tree lighting/auras).

 

On the note of file size, I think I must of been really tired last when I was finishing yours cause the file size is fine... idk what I read last night X.x

 

Anyway ended up making speed adjustments before realizing this lol so you have a few slight speed variations.

 

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Edited April 29, 2023 by Harakh