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LeoLeonardo — Complete Emoticon Guide part 2
Published: 2007-03-20 19:07:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 35925; Favourites: 1004; Downloads: 952
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So here it finally is, part 2 of my (hopefully) usable emote tutorial series.
If you missed part 1 --> [link]
Here are the links to the animated results of the tutorial emotes:
Wave --> [link]
Walk --> [link]
Blink --> [link]
Hope you find this usefull!
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Comments: 344
Thank you very much for the feature
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Nice tuts, i gonna try it and enter to the tower
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I have not Image Ready, what are some other basic programs you can use for this?
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I personally don't know of too many others programs that you could get a hold of for free, you'll have to make a search on google or something.
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hey, nice tutorial ,it helped me a lot :
[link]
please comment, it is my very first emoticon , i hope people like it
oh and i'm wating for the 3 part
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when are you gonna make that advanced anim tut?
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No idea, really. Sometime.
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1) Do you know if you'll ever have time to make Advanced Animation?
2) What font did you use for "SIMPLE ANIMATION" at the top?
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1) I've been thinking about it, and I'm not sure. I think I might start a newsletter or something here on DA with guides to some animation/emoticon thingies that could use explaining, we'll see...
2) I think it's a Metal Gear styled font, can't remember where I got it, or if it's even installed on my computer still. D:
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Lawl, alright. Thanks!
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Awesome tutorials! You're hilarious
I shall try and make a smilie, thank you!
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smart. this is a really good giude.
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I just found your first tutorial, and am working on a whole series of emotes, but I'm using Photoshop CS3. Do you know if CS3 has the image ready option? I'm not finding it otherwise.
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CS3 has Animation integrated already, no need for ImageReady. Simply go to Window -> Animation and the ImageReady frame-reel will appear.
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I'd be really surprised if CS3 doesn't have ImageReady, since most previous versions have it. Personally, I'm on CS2, since I don't really trust CS3 yet.
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It ends up that CS3 doesn't have Image Ready or any sort of animation program bundled with it. Do you know of a good program that I could use to animate my emotes that is free?
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Sorry for spamming you.. >_> You have to in the Save for web & devices window check looping options > forever to make it loop forever... Makes sense doesn't it? 
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Oh, never mind, in CS3 you have to change mode to 8 - bit color, click File > Save for web & devices, and then you have to do some stuff which I couldn't quite comprehend, and then just press ok. Oh, and you have to open the animation window to animate of course. Other than that, just follow this tutorial. I think Imageready is somehow integrated into CS3 or something.
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You can use the photoshop cs3 to animate, however I had trouble saving them as gif-files... There is no optimize option, and the default animation is timeline, but you can just set it to frames. But gif-files are a must!
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With the help of this tut I made this :[link]
Just one question: How do I get that white line around him away?? Cus it is staying there and it aint goin by the look of it
Thanks so much!!!
Jessi
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I love it!!
Dont forget to bring th elast episode out!!!!
Jessi
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Thanks for sharing this tutorial also.....!
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You wonderful Tutorial has been featured here.
[link]
Thank you for providing the gallery with such awesome Resources.
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Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked my tutorials!
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Wow great tutorial! I have always wondered how to do this! Oh and what program do you use for this? Do you have a link I can look at?
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I demand an elaboration on shading techniques.
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Sure, I think people might find it very helpfull.
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Nice giude I wil try this sometime.
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Great job and thanks for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us!
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I made two emoticons because of you! 
Here they are:
[link]
With the second one, there is some white stuff in the background that isn't on the original file... I don't know what to do about it...
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The white pixels appear when you have pixels that are transparent in the original document and then save it as a gif. What you need to do is make sure there are no transparent pixels at all directly on the background of the document. If you see what I mean.
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But the whole background is transparent... 
Does that mean I have to go through all the layers and try to erase all of the transparent pixels? 
Sorry if I'm way off track... which I probably am.
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Yes, the background is transparent, but I mean that there are pixels which have an opacity set to something other than 100% (solid color) or 0% (completely invisible), making them "see-through", so to say. A gif image can not produce these semi-transparent pixels and therefor produces a white background behind the said pixel, making what looks like a bunch of white "gunk" in areas where there are these kinds of transparent pixels.
See what I mean now?
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The word you're looking for is translucent, not "see-through."
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No no no no, I was dumbing it down. I used "see-through" on purpose so that I could convey the point at a more simplified level.
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Ah, gotcha.
The way you said it somewhat made it seem like you couldn't find the right word.
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