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RevPixy β Floating Pixel Icon Tutorial
Published: 2012-11-13 18:48:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 7580; Favourites: 207; Downloads: 44
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OKay this is the best i could do...i know its long and its confusing but this is the best way i know how to explain itheres what it should look like if you did it right
i know theres a million other ways to do this, but this is how i went about explaining it....so i wont be replying to comments saying " well you can do this or this or this or this" i know how to work GIMP so if your commenting for the benefit of others than thats fine...but i wont reply to those comments
ask as many questions as you want and ill do everything in my power to help!! i know this isnt the greatest tutorial but its the best i could come up with
dont ask me about making eyes blink or how i make my anime icons, i wont tell you.
GIMP works with stacking layers on top of each other...sooo to make it blink, stack different eye layers on top of each other, one open, one closed, one half open and back to full open
thats all im gonna tell you.
experiment with GIMP or any other animation program. thats what i did. so if i can figure it out, so can you!
and by messing with the program, youll find new things and youll get to know it even better!! so yeah
hope this helps a little bit
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thank you so much for this!!!
i have a kinda weird question i'm not sure if you would know the answer to but is there a way to make the animation visible on stash?
like here;Β sta.sh/21znca1ryvsb?edit=1
you can't see the animation there, but i've seen other gifs work in stashes? like here; sta.sh/27og33f4t4?edit=1
Β idk if that made sense at all i'm sorryΒ
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this tutorial was brilliantly helpful~
do you know perhaps how to do a floating animation for files bigger than 50x50? Β 
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How cute!!
You're welcome!
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How do you upload a avatar that's a GIF that you found on DevaintArt?
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Thank you so much, I had to trial and error until I found this tutorial! XD
Here's a pencil icon I made using your tutorial~ Pencil Icon
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im so happy it was helpful!
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Hmm...
I have GIMP, but whenever I upload my file, it's apparently too small...It happened with my icon...I had to enlarge it with MS Paint...
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That Β might just mean the actual file youre uploading is just a small file. Β im not really sure D: Β i dont really know that much about gimp honestly haha
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Oh...Okay. Thanks though!
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the gif isnt working for me... i tried doing it but it only piled layers onto eachother
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you have to be sure to change the "frame disposal where unspecified" from "i dont care" to "one frame per layer (replace)" Β it explains it better with a picture on the second to last white box of this tutorial :]]
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or export every image/layer as png then find a website that makes it into a gif for u XD
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haha yeah would could do that too. Β only some of the websites done support transparency. Β and the box im talking about comes up when you go to export the image. Β i feel like a website would be more of a hassle XD
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Thank you! I'm working on a avatar for my deviantART I still haven't made one yet!
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youre welcome!! i hope this helps! <33
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THANK YOU! Nobody ever does tutorials for gimp!!!
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haha well youre welcome!! i always use gimp to animate everything! i love that lil program!!
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Me too! Thank you for doing all your work in gimp again! You'll always have me as a fan!
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eh, i'm slightly confused by this (i use PS, not Gimp), just wanted to ask, does the object move up 2 pixels in total, and move down 1 pixel in total from the original position? Does my question make sense? X) Sort of like: original >up 1 px >up 1 px > original > down 1 px
Is that how the animation goes?
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i think i get what youre saying. are you wondering if the original frame ever moves downs? if thats youre question than no it doesnt. the first frame is the lowest the animation should go. it should go
original >up 1 px >up 1 pix> up 1 px >up 1 pix > down 1 px> down 1 px> down 1>px with 8 frames total DX i hope i understood youre question okay!!! and i hope this sorta helps!! >_< sorry im so bad at explaining things
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ahh i think i get what you mean, so the entire pixel actually only moves one pixel up, then back down for the next few frames, am i right? (:
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yeah pretty much :] you just gotta make sure that everytime you move it, youre using a copy of the layer before it. >_< if that makes sense
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i.. think i get it XD i'll try it out someday, thank you!
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sorry im so bad at explaining things!! >_< lemme see what you come out with sometime and if you have some issues with it ill see if i can help
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it's ok! (: if i have any problems i'll check it out with you hehe thanks so much!
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yay im really happy to hear that!! youre very welcome n_n
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its a musical instrament in "the legend of zelda, ocarina of time" and in "majora's mask"
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OMG this is how you animate......
ohhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is gonna come in handy!
thankies for posting this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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