Christmas Gif 2021-WIP

[spikeyxxx]

Thank you @drgnclw 

This is really a “…and now for something completely different…” for me 🙂

[spikeyxxx]

Cheers @turtlelearns3d 

This was a first for me. What I did for the Santa and holly, was to paint  a silhouette and used that as a background image to fill in colors in a subdivided Plane…like

for instance.

[jammingammon]

I find myself losing the bell a bit in the background with this latest update… like maybe the contrast between the bell and the terrain isn’t quite enough. Take that with a grain of salt though, it could just be my eyes. Amazingly creative piece you have here, I really like it a lot.

[spikeyxxx]

Thanks a lot @jammingammon ! I had noticed that myself as well and it is something that needs to be fixed. Please let me know if there is anything else. Comments like this are really helpful 🙂

(I changed the Exposure a bit, because the image seemed somewhat too dark to me, but then the bell became ‘almost invisible’,  which is totally inacceptable, as it plays such a major role in the last part of the animation….)

[Mark Smith]

way cool!!

[spikeyxxx]

Fixed some issues (standing Santa was rendered with a different exposure than the walking one, for instance).

Added some screen noise.

Then spend forever trying to get the scanlines to change twice as fast…couldn’t get it to work unless I re- made the ‘underlying’ animation (slowing it down) and even then the result was not okay.

Then there was the bell disappearing issue, as @jammingammon pointed out…I fixed it, but then you get the GIF compression followed by the CGCookie compression…I have given up…let this be my entry:

Uploaded it to the Gallery as Final, so nothing to be changed anymore…

Decided on a “close up’ still as project cover and put the GIF ‘inside’, just to avoid triggering epileptic attacks…

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