Soraptor: My offering to Kazerad. I have never animated anything in my life, but that ain't gonna stop me.

Unidentified_BA: haha, the bowling pin splitting is great. good work!

Soraptor: @Unidentified_BA: Thanks, after I saw those assets, I knew I had to do something with them.

Toryu-Mau: This makes me wonder if it counts as a homerun if a baseball brakes in half? If he manages to strike a bowling ball flying too, he may have found a less self destructive career for himself in sports just now.

Ja_Jarsha_Rovandi: A retelling of that one story Kazerad linked to
http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/stonelion.php
The part with the servant was cut due to time constraints.
Also some of the lions were cut too. But if anyone asks 10 is also a binary number.

woundedkneecap: removed me as artist.

Kazerad: @woundedkneecap: Whoops, that was supposed to be AMKitsune and BRiskby. Thanks.

Geravind: Ah-hah! Exactly that feeling, when colleagues from neighboring department have not organized customer services on their part yet.

James: I don't know how I managed to screw up a paint gif.

That's like breaking a Nokia Brick.

PermanentFace: Katia's clearly kicking Sigrid's face, not her stomach. That simply won't do.

rarborman: Just a little thing I shambled together while making my animation, for funzies.

Ja_Jarsha_Rovandi: Why does the Orc have kitty foot paws?

rarborman: I just shoved some legs on him.

OppoQuinn: He even stole Katia's feet. That monster.

Toryu-Mau: Hmmm... would this count as a conjuration? :?

Kazerad: @Toryu-Mau: I feel like alteration?

(creative usage of the rocks from the lava background, by the way, though I think that entire map made from scaled down limbs is about as far as I'll let people push this)

Ja_Jarsha_Rovandi: @Kazerad: The markings on the map are scaled down limbs, the parchment is the side of the candle box.

Ja_Jarsha_Rovandi: @Toryu-Mau: @Kazerad:
Conjuration for the idea candle, then Mysticism to turn it into a real candle.

And the horsing around is alteration. In theory it could have been Illusion, but when I made it it was with the idea he is actually changing himself as shown. It seems to have more impact that way. If that makes sense?

sapphotrix: my second entry! took a stab at the 'creative' thing. katia thinks quill weave is looking a lil different today. did she get a new haircut???

(for those who may wonder about the slightly different assets, i got the weird eyes by just putting two empty halves of qw's eyes together, i got the eyebrows from one of the legs or arms, and i mashed a few of katias faces together to get the ears like that for every face. and, uh, those spirals are made of tails.)

(oh, and i just copy pasted the bottoms of the backgrounds so they'd be longer)

chessaficionado: The way it glitches up in the end is unnerving and I like it

Nyflex: You're really talented! Why your entries are so funny and lovely?!

Toryu-Mau: Machete Kills. Enuff Said.

sapphotrix: ahh thank you so much!

damrok4321: What program you guys using to do this animations?

sapphotrix: @damrok4321: well, i'm using a definitely 100% for sure legit copy of photoshop cs6. simple sprite stuff like this is fairly easy since most of the movements are little jitters of pre-existing assets. i have no idea how to edit the sprites beyond just moving them around (rotation, resizing, flipping, ect) without it affecting ALL frames, and the only solution i've found is to make a billion layers. there might be some way, but i have no idea. there's a LOT of stuff you can do in photoshop.

flash is another potential option. homestuck is animated in flash, and the proper animation tools like keyframes and onion skins and shit are nice. but i've never used it for sprite animations, so i dunno. plus, like photoshop, you have to pay for it (and its EXPENSIVE) unless you're a pirate.

kazerad uses graphicsgale, which is free! (or, at least, he did two years ago when i emailed him to ask.) although, he said prequel pushes its limits. but, again, its free!

and gimp exists! and is also free!

but don't subject yourself to that kind of torture.

damrok4321: @sapphotrix: Uh thanks... I will remember. Maybe someday I'll do my own animation ^^

IndonesianGentleman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryEzfq-yGKk

WIP.

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: cuute! Excellent jig, Katia.

Mezhik: cool

SomethingAfwl: And learning how to make gifs begins

Kazerad: You've basically got it down!

Toryu-Mau: Aey~! Who's got it? You've got it! ;]

Triskelion: A remarkable tail.