My POTCO Hints Project

[Andrew]

A very simple project... Yet takes alot of work.

What I am doing is gathering up all of the POTCO hints and adding them to one animation.

This is what I have so far:


How YOU Can Help

If you would like to help me make this project, it would help me out a ton! The more the merrier

If ye would like to help me out, all I simply need is an image of the hint (look at the examples in my current one.)

All you need to do to do this is PM me the screenshot, or post it here, and I do the work from there.

However, if ye are willing to cut me a little break, ye can make a box around the hint, and crop it to 480x160 and I could place it right in.

Thanks in advance for the commands and assistance.

[Aaron McEagle]

A little wonder there andrew.

What system do YOU (not me) use to crop with?

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by Aaron McEagle

A little wonder there andrew.

What system do YOU (not me) use to crop with?

I decided for this project I do ALL of my work in JASC Animation, including the cropping.

If you're refering to the little blue area around the images, Animation does that to try to make the images look the same size.

[Aaron McEagle]

Good thing I have Jasc on my laptop!!!
Can you send me a PM of the hints you would like me to try and give you?

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by Aaron McEagle

Good thing I have Jasc on my laptop!!!
Can you send me a PM of the hints you would like me to try and give you?

Any hints you can find as long as they're not already on there.

Im gonna get back to work on getting more hints on that animation now. But any hints you could find would be a great help mate.

[Dr. Zeppers]

There are likely too many to create a reasonably sized GIF file.

Here they are: http://www.disneyonlineworlds.com/index.php/POTCO_Hints

If you set a background color for your image like black for example, it should remove the blue bars, which could also be made "transparent".

If I were doing this, I would import the full loading screen for each and every hint FIRST (each frame would be a full loading screen) (might save a copy of the original to use do add)
Then crop the image so it would accomodate the hint text for all screens. Much more consistent aesthetic animation.

[Andrew]

Hmm.. Something I was thinking to make this alot more simple, was I just copy the hints there and make them an animation but then it wouldnt look to creative. But you make a good point Zep, it would be a HUGE file.

I set it to canvas style for all the slides, when I preview it, the background is transparent, but then when I save (Animation will optimize on save) it adds the blue area around ot.

[Dr. Zeppers]

If you were to do it the way Id indicated.

Start with each frame being a full screen.
Do not crop out just the saying for each screen and put them together from your cropped images, because these are going to vary insize and cause the problem with the blue edges, etc.
After you have all the frames you want (full sized screens), THEN crop the animation (not the bits and pieces of the animation), to accomodate the necessary size to accomodate all the various hints.

This would keep the text size consistent, the background size consistent, the readability consistent, and you would never have any blue bars because all the frames are the same size, this is how I created the Dueces avatars, and a few other animations I have done (see my TTC avie and profile image) although the frames in that case came from a video capture. But the idea is the same, animate full frame, crop the animation. Do not crop frames, THEN put together the animation.