This animation was inspired by @meesterboom. Having watched his interesting animations, I decided to fix Steemit with this.
This is my first 2D animation and I'm very excited about it. I have a very demanding day job so I started this on Sunday night and finished it on Monday night.
I don't feel proud to call myself a genius. I'm so excited that I could do this by just watching one Youtube video.
At first, I wanted to work it out on Photoshop but it wasn't working out. I then found Pivot Animator.
It's such a fantastic light software. It isn't even up to 3MB.
My Idea
I wanted to create something interesting but there was no inspiration.
Then I thought of Steemit. I haven't been able to log in with my phone since the last upgrade. Sadly, I use a Windows Mobile phone. I'll change it soon.
Since I couldn't log in to Steemit, It was broken to me and it needed a fix. Then I began working with the frames. It was tasking at first but since I work with layers on Photoshop, I found it easy to adapt to.
After creating the movements, I added the STEEMIT letters, I didn't want to use the new logo as I didn't have the permission as stated by @steemitblog in this post; https://steemit.com/logo/@steemitblog/the-new-steemit-logo-is-here
##I think a couple of people are using it already though.
So, I made use of the Steem logo.
As you can see, it dances back and forth because it was broken.
When it got fixed, the Steem logo moved smoothly.
Soon, I will be creating comics just to accentuate my creativity. I am glad I could do this. So glad!
My victory song at the moment is "Paint the town Green by The Script".
I'm excited. I'll appreciate genuine comments from the community. Ideas on what I can do with this are appreciated.
Motivation to other Steemians
There's no limit to what you can do. You need just a little push. I'll be doing some animation for @stach @steem-lagos, @redfishpillar, @euronation and @onequality soon.
These are communities inspiring a lot of Steemians here grow and keep coming back even though the rewards are not encouraging. I wonder how they manage to mix Steemit with their normal life. Oh! for some, Steemit is normal life to them.
They deserve it.
Kindly drop a comment and I'll find time in the weekend to make a free animation for randomly selected people.
I'm feeling the love already.
Thanks to @meesterboom for the inspiration. He is the first person I have seen with this type of animation and his are very funny and interesting. You should check his posts out.
Steps to creating an animation like this.
For starters, I didn't know I'll develop something like this on Sunday morning.
It was in the afternoon when was surfing the internet when I had the thought of creating a motion image just for the fun of it.
Then, I thought of Stickman. I googled "Stickman animation creator and thanks to Google, Pivot animator was all over the place.
I clicked on the download link and I installed the software.
I started playing around after watching a Youtube tutorial.
There are a lot of tools I can download to make better animation with Pivot Animation.
I'll master the art before moving to another.
An idea just popped!!!
Two famous Nigerian musicians had a brawl five days ago in Dubai.
I'll try to work something out with the story. This is where I need some creativity.
It isn't going to be as easy but it's not hard.
Here are pictures of some frames I worked with
Comment, Upvote and Resteem so others can see it if you like this.
Much from from this end of the world to you. See ya!
Pretty cool stuff man; I hope this gets some recognition!
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Thanks. I hope so too. Check back in 2 days. I should have been able to finish something of this nature for you.
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That'd be awesome. Thanks brother.
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You are welcome
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Whoa this is so cool! Welldone.
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Thanks @cwen. I appreciate your comment
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That is so cool. You pulled this off by just watching a tutorial? That's commendable.
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Yes, I did. @misterakpan. Thanks for the comment. The internet is the new University. I learn virtually all I need to online. Then I practice and practice.
You can also pull this off in very little time. All you need to do is to know the basics. The rest will flow.
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This is cool. I'd love to give it a try myself. Now, I need to come up with some idea's...
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You should give it a try. Ideas will flow
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Yup, also, as you've mentioned, time constraints (due to work) :D It'll definitely be there, on the back burner, waiting...
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Hahaha. It is! Its weekend already. I'll try to do a few of the postponed work today and tomorrow.
Thanks for the comment
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Oh this is fantastic!
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O yes! Thanks.
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This is awesome...
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Thanks :-)
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