SLEEPLESS Scooby-Doo Mystery Moderator

marblezilla · #1 (**permalink**) March 26th, 2008

I was bored and wanted to have some fun, so I'm fartin around with a GIF for Sleepy. With a 39K limit, I still have almost 10K spare that I can add.

Maybe Scooby should bark out "RESPECT my 14 pts".

Damned traffic jams on that Distinguished Road make it busier than the morning commute!

sleep_pup.gif

Sleepless · #2 (**permalink**) March 27th, 2008

lol you can do better than that. That's just sad to see.

And by the way I was joking about those 14 points. You seem a bit slow in that department.

marblezilla · #3 (**permalink**) March 27th, 2008

Dang it!!!!!

14 points seemed like such a believable-sounding value. It almost makes sense. Once you acheive the plateau of a forum mod, there was barely anyone ranked higher to award you more respest. Haaa.

But that dosent seem like a attitude someone like Sleepy would live with. She's probably listening to Aretha Franklin singing "All I need is a little RESPECT, just a little bit."

"Wow, 14 points. Now I can throw away any long term goals I've made for my future. When does the Made-For_TV Movie come out?"

of course It gets better that that bit of video fluff. I tweaked the contrast & brightness on a copy of the orig pic so I could see the pup's outline better. I re-trimmed his image with a few Adobe tricks of the trade.

Notice how he/she says "Sleepless" and "The Audiophile" with the appearance of using 2 sylables for set. the incredibly realistic timimg of the images that, dare I say it, rivals the video skills of Indusrtial Light & Magic. mentioning that "The Audiophile" is more than 2 sylables. If I could use a flash file for a avatar, our "Wonder-Pup" would be saying it outloud.

The last comparison is a blatant lie of immense proportions.

Oh well, getting it just under the size limit and getting some semblance of mouth timing was a perk.

Notice the puffy, cloud-like "speech balloon backing".

Lucky for me,file space kept me from your pup bragging on the respect 14 points elevates you to.

HEH, one more thing. Doing a GIF anime from him/her without knowing it's name feels wrong on Soooo Many Levels. It feels too stereotypical to use the names Sparky, Scraps or Rex.

Ok, the new, improved GIF. Drumroll please.......
sleep_puffs5.gif

Sleepless · #4 (**permalink**) March 27th, 2008

You need to put more effort into the cropping of my dog. Those hurried attempts make it seem like a 3-year old made it. Concentrate more on detail and less animation if you want it to look in any way decent with this file size limit.

You are in luck, since you found yourself one of the more laid back mods to play with. I wouldn't recommend trying it with most others. Carry on

And btw, what's up with that giant Limewire commercial in your sig. Do you work for them or something? If you do then ask them to go back to v. 4.12 and work from there. Everything after has been a downhill route and will end up as a crash and burn.

marblezilla · #5 (**permalink**) March 27th, 2008

OOOOOOk, heres some pics

This one, I used the sharpening tool to help define the hair on the edges.
edge_sharp1.jpg

This one shows it partially trimmed.
edge_sharp_trim2.jpg

This one I used the sharpening tool on the whole dog.
Something about it bothers me.
all_sharp1.jpg

Heres the all_sharper image semi-trimmed
all_sharp_trim1.jpg

I have a feeling I need you to be a dear and send me or post a better pic. I can only do so much with a 100 pictel image.
Either that or I'm just worn out after a long night.

Heh, now that I look at my first test, the poor pup looks like I butchered the image.

On the Limewire images, they're just some program images and a trimmed screenshot or 2. I was trying to add a filesharing theme to my sig....I guess. I don't know, Lime basic and this Pro Beta were the only sharing programs I.ve ever installed on any of my CPUs. My sis used to use the Bearshare freebie, but i saw all the Adware it jammed on ya. Weatherbug has the word BUG in it. Nuff said.

Sleepless · #6 (**permalink**) March 27th, 2008

Well I don't have the original image anymore, it's on some disk or drive somewhere. Why don't you just keep the headphones. It is because you are trying to remove them, that the trimmed image looks so strange.

My dog is very fond of pictures so I don't have many good ones. If you look at the pic closely, you can see that there is someone holding him.

It's important to not trim the hairs sticking out, because that's what gives it personality.

Who knows.. Maybe if you do a good job on it, use better colors and dump the attempt to make it speak, I might just exchange it and use for a new Avatar.

marblezilla · #7 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008

Yea, the more I look at the mouth movements, the more they look kinda cheesy. That, and I was never really really pleased with the text balloons. There's not enough room over fido's bod to make it look kosher. I really had to trim the with to not drastically block his upper-face.

Might as well focus on a better quality image and maybe a nice fade-in of your name and title. I'll play with Adobe's sharpening filters and related tools.

It's all a good thing. Every time one isn't satisfied with the final quality, it just means that we get more practice boning up on a softwares special features. Besides, if I didn't want to something nice with some Pizzaz, I wouldn't have tried in the first place.

I didn't even flash on the fact that the lack of ear symmetry was caused by headphones. Are his ears usually sticking up, like triangles, or are they longer and droop?

I forgot if I mentioned it, what's it's name? Fido sounds kinda foolish.

Sleepless · #8 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008

His name is Gismo and no, I didn't pick it. His ears don't stick up unless he's listening to something, kinda in between usually.

marblezilla · #9 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008

So much of the headphone is too dark to distinguish from Gizmo and so much of the upper part is cut out.

I was going to maybe add a headphone Png image and make the upper cross-piece arc lower so it barely sits above Gizmo's head. The pre-testing didn't turn out too bad.

Now if Gizmo is growling, saying:
"Hey, that pic was a classic. How dare he change my favorite headset! it's like Ted Turner colorizing old classic movies!!!!"

Don't let him see this alternative ear visual upgrade. I looked on-line for a collie pic that was close to his. I assumed he's a collie or a border-collie breed. I saved 1 or 2 semi-close images.

I then stole their ears, adjusted their color and gave Gizmo some plastic surgery.

I believe that I'm going to Copyright Hell when I die. lucky 4 me, if he thinks new ears sounds like a genetic disaster, he can't bite me over the Internet. Heh.

I'm not sure if I'm going on the wrong path towards puppy-perfection, or Adobe accomplishment.

AaronWalkhouse · #10 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008

iPod earbuds are easy to recognize with those white wires. Try that. ;]

marblezilla · #11 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008

Oops, I forgot to post the pic of the ear theft.

borrow_ears.jpg

Sleepless · #12 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008

Oh my dear God!!... You are officially fired as my avatar improver.

marblezilla · #13 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008

Oh oh. Are they the wrong type of ear shape? wait, I know...they don't have Gizmo's unique character. He's probably saying "Grrrrr...those ears suck. Well, at least I don't look like Dumbo."

I knew I was going to copyright hell. Improvising is gonna get me in trouble, Heh.

The Ear-buds were a good idea. The wires could hang down and the less of a headphone above Gizmo's head, the more of Giz can be seen in the pic. But earbuds are so small, and because the headphones pressed his in, he still wouldn't look right without some creative altering.

I'm not sure if I'm focusing too much on making Gizmo a transparent trimmed GIF, rather than doing a nice transition between the pic and a name image.

Sleepless · #14 (**permalink**) March 28th, 2008

Well crappy iPod earbuds sound like crap. My dog is an Audiophile as well and prefers my Sennheiser earphones any day

marblezilla · #15 (**permalink**) March 29th, 2008

No worries.

Gizmo deserves 5.1 surround sound anyways. We wont even mention that rumor he was seen listening to Vanilla Ice.

Being an Audiophile, Gizmo probably thinks that surround sound is almost up to his standards. When he wants to listen to The Rolling Stones, he just calls up Mick on the phone and tells him to come on over. He always says "Don't play You Can't Always Get What You Want, cause When It Comes To Music, I DO.

Heh, OK, back to reality.Here's what I was talking about when I said a transition type of GIF.

One goes from Giz to your name on a blue background. The name slowly fades in while Giz fades out.

new_gizmo.gif

The other just fades in the name.

giz4.gif

Annnnddddd, just for good measure, here's one more set of ear mutations. Boy, aren't those ears perky! I'll bet a dog could hear a wider frequency range with those!

new_ears.jpg

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