Nifflas' Support Forum
Being Creative => Collaborations => Topic started by: TheRealTJ on March 02, 2009, 01:02:23
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OKAY, I think we can start this thing! This thread is about creating a Chain Reaction/ Rube Goldberg animation. Here are the rules:
-ONLY post a new part to the animation if you are next in line.
-If it is your turn to post, post two things: The animation (with all parts included) and a transparent PNG of your cause.
-You object must include two-three things: Something to be logically affected by the previous object, a new object to affect the next object, and perhaps one object inbetween. (I.E, Someone shoots a rocket, the rocket hits the handle of a hammer, the hammer hits a ball.)
-Your object should not be larger than 200 by 200 pixels (It can be slightly larger, but not much)
-Only animate in the area you are using and where people have already animated (you can do pretty much anything you want in those areas)
-Make sure to add your object in every previous frame (I know it's a pain, but it won't look right otherwise.)
-Try to make your object creative as possible!
-Make sure to keep the transparency as an unused color.
And... I think that's pretty much it!
Current list of participants:
Reecer6
shawnachu
blackM.1
Purple Pineapple
Firecat
Soron
kasran
BackwardsO
SiamJai
Wanderer
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I'm interested, but this is more of a forum game.
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Each person posts one object until we reach some kind of conclusion.
Interpret?
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Each person posts one object until we reach some kind of conclusion.
Interpret?
Every person involved draws in an object onto the animation. Everybody does this until everyone has made thier part and the last person can make a final object to finish it.
I'm interested, but this is more of a forum game.
I kind of thought it might, but I wasn't exactly sure, since there isn't much of a "game" element. But maybe a mod could clear this up and I could start a new topic there?
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I still don't really understand what one is supposed to do for this. :S
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I still don't really understand what one is supposed to do for this. :S
This still doesn't make much sence. Example?
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I believe what is meant to happen is that someone starts a .gif file with an object in it. The next person takes the .gif file, and adds an object. In however many frames they want, they depict the first person's object interacting with their object in some way. This repeats. (Right?)
I think this would count as a forum game if it was just a free-for-all, with everyone adding in an object whenever they want and then posting it. For this to be a collaborative project (and for it to work), you'll have to have a set group of people who want to participate, and a deadline of some sort. If you don't have any sort of restrictions, then this will just spiral off into offtopicland.
That is to say, you could have this as a forum game (with some sort of rule to make it a game- like "each object must destroy the previous object in some way" or something), where it will almost certainly be locked at some point in the future, but which might be more fun in the short term; or, you could organize this into an actual project.
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I actually don't see this working as a forumgame at all. Due to the fact that you need to claim a space for making your object. If you then fail to do so, some time went by and nothing happened. That usually means the end of a topic. This will work better here if organised properly.
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We had one of theese on another forum...
Speed version:
(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5189/animationbattle1uf0.gif)
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Looks like what goog said.
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Yes, Goog said it exactly. So, should I put a new topic up in forumgames, or should it stay here? It would probably work better in forum games :/
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sounds good to me :^^:
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Yes, Goog said it exactly. So, should I put a new topic up in forumgames, or should it stay here? It would probably work better in forum games :/
I disagree. Its better put here.
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Speed version:
(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5189/animationbattle1uf0.gif)
I cant stop watching... O_o
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Yes, Goog said it exactly. So, should I put a new topic up in forumgames, or should it stay here? It would probably work better in forum games :/
I disagree. Its better put here.
Okay. In that case, if anyone is interested, please post to let me know.
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I can't make .gifs.
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I guess I'll start with a really simple animation.
Also, the next animator must destroy the previous in some way, right?
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No, we aren't starting yet. We have to wait until enough people say they want to help. Also, that isn't exactly how it is going to work.
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I guess i'll help
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I do too. As soon as I get a gif'amator, that is.
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And by I can't do .gifs, I mean I can't do animations. Someone post a link for a thing that will.
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Beneton Movie GIF (http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Graphics/Animation-Tools/Beneton-Movie-GIF.html) is the best.
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Beneton Movie GIF (http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Graphics/Animation-Tools/Beneton-Movie-GIF.html) is the best.
I agree 8D... By the way i can help if you want.
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Somebody tell me how I can move the ball.
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Have we started yet?
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No, not yet. I suppose we could start now, but I was kind of hoping for a few more people.
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I'll help :D
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I might help sometime.
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Seems like it'll be fun
I've never tried to make animations before, but i can draw, so maybe... if everyone else isn't a genius X)
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Count me in! This could be fun. :)
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So how does it start?
I was thinking 1 person starts by making a picture and the next person making an animation to the picture.
The next person take the end of the animation before and makes a separate animation and so on
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When you starting TJ?
We have been waiting...
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I'm interested too! But only if this actually takes off. But I hope we're not pestering you when your sick, or anything bad like that.
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Yo TJ you still there?
It's been a few weeks...
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Sorry, I was gone for a while. :oops:
Anyway, I editted the first post with the rules, and here's the first part. Everyone needs to continue off of this one.
(http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh268/therealtj0/Chain%20Reaction/1.gif)
And the cause for the next object:
(http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh268/therealtj0/Chain%20Reaction/cat1.png)
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With an animation that big, but the filesize'll be huge!
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With an animation that big, but the filesize'll be huge!
I was trying to make it big enough that everyone will have enough room to post their objects. I guess it's a little big, though :/
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what about just making it so that every time someone wants to continue, he makes a, say, 100x100 pix animation on its own, that continues the first one. Like, everyone makes a piece of a puzzle that connect to each other when displayed next to each other?
...do I make sense?
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So, in the sence of not a large image, but a bunch of small images containing events? Like on a 100*100 image, the next person has the round object interact with something there?
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I guess I meant something like this:
(http://www.cubeupload.com/files/ceb400kick.gif) (http://www.cubeupload.com/files/701000balltoglass.gif)
but it doesn't work well at all. X) Oh well.
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I guess I meant something like this:
(http://www.cubeupload.com/files/ceb400kick.gif) (http://www.cubeupload.com/files/701000balltoglass.gif)
but it doesn't work well at all. X) Oh well.
It works... if you can scroll down so fast as to see it... :) But yes, this is a good idea.
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There are several problems with this:
They go too fast and don't repeat, and how is it going to work for anything other than a verticle line?
Also they don't sync properly.
However, I suppose if there was a program that could combine them all together, then it could work like that. But do you know of such a program?
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I know about those problems. It was mainly just a test to see if it'd work, and obviously it doesn't. XD
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I thought:
1. they would loop
2. they wouldn't go together. Rather, they would each show a different part of the rube goldberg
3. each poster would post his own. No one would combine pieces or try to synch them.
Basically an animated timeline type thing.
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Testing
(http://i40.tinypic.com/14c4rih.gif) (http://i44.tinypic.com/4v47xd.gif)
:P (the second image is invisible? :O ..but not the ball)
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More like each person makes an animation. Except there's no delay. The action starts right in at the first frame. If there are 52 players, 52 animations side by side going at the same time. Every one of them looping.
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More like each person makes an animation. Except there's no delay. The action starts right in at the first frame. If there are 52 players, 52 animations side by side going at the same time. Every one of them looping.
Oh...I was just testing :P
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How about each time we upload a folder with all the frames of the animation inside it. This way we could easily just pick up from the last frame and add more frames e.g.
[frame 1] - [frame 25] -Someone else has a turn--> [frame 26] - [frame 50] and so on.
The frames would be saved in one folder and then put together in the end.
(Were using .gif ,right?)
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huh? when you open the .gif doesnt it turn all the frames to layers? :O
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How about each time we upload a folder with all the frames of the animation inside it. This way we could easily just pick up from the last frame and add more frames e.g.
[frame 1] - [frame 25] -Someone else has a turn--> [frame 26] - [frame 50] and so on.
The frames would be saved in one folder and then put together in the end.
(Were using .gif ,right?)
Except for the fact that your object has to be added to the previous objects. It wouldn't make much sense for your object to appear all of a sudden.
However, I suppose this could make things a lot easier. We can do that.
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Except for the fact that your object has to be added to the previous objects. It wouldn't make much sense for your object to appear all of a sudden.
Could you please elaborate? The object would come from a previous animator, right?
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It's like this sleuth. The object doesn't just appear, You animate the slide after the last one and make the object fall from the sky etc...
Do whatever you like with the last frame of the animation and when were all done with all of the frames we can put them together in a program like unfreeze (or something that can handle long .gif strands)
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Why do we have to put them together?
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I'm in!
(http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/975/19603913.gif)
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-ONLY post a new part to the animation if you are next in line.
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When do I know if it's my turn?
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The list on the first page. Also, did you not notice the last few pages of indecision?