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Genderhazard- I'm actually really impressed with your animation. I'd considered mining [Hmmm!]'s other flango meme for images, but didn't see anything useful in it for the Bunny Meme; I really like the way you nabbed the surprised flango shot and used it for the looking-down-the-well animation. That shot helps the simple story hold together. Some other things I liked:

1. The simple coin-flip shot
2. Really liked the way you trimmed the magic blast to make it expand in the animation
3. Facial expressions in the magic-well-blast panel are better than I could have done
4. Creative use of filters at the beginning of the transformation
5. Really liked the bit with the expanding crosshatch pattern on the pants
6. That you tried to vary the frame timing appropriately

Some things I didn't like:

1. Mixing costumes in the animation is confusing
2. The animation's dimensions are WAY too huge. My GIF animator couldn't even preview it properly because it pushed the playback controls off the screen. If a web browser has to shrink the animation to display all of it, you might as well have just used a lower resolution and saved bandwidth.
3. The individual frame dimensions are also all over the place. That's going to mess up playback on occaison, and more importantly it means everything just defaults to the upper left corner. Don't do that, it's sloppy.
4. There are lots of seemingly pointless frames in the animation- blank ones that display for zero time, duplicates of previous frames, or frames who's differences seem pointless- like frames for tiny wrinkles appearing in clothing. You ought to clean those out.

More importantly, though, seeing your animation has given me a lot of new ideas- I'm really appreciating your input on this project. What programs are you using to edit the images and compose the animations?


Hmmm!- Thanks so much for the new panel! It's a terrific scan even if it's not the same size as the old one. I'm still deciding how best to use it; I've already thrown out several test animations for the well so I'll probably just start over using the new panel. Now, though, I've got the problem of trying to fit the old expressions into the new panel- looks like I'll need to get really proficient with the resampler. I've already edited the old magic blast into the frame, (see below) and expanded it to fill the empty space. It took me forever but I'm loathe to ask you to change the drawing again and receive a new scan at a new size. It was not easy imitating your vibrant style using a mouse and the airbrush tool.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to collaborate with you and other artists on animations in the future. If you'd know ahead of time the sequence was going to be animated, how would you have drawn the changing facial expressions, transformation stages, etc, differently? Can you draw on paper, scan, then change the drawing, then scan again? Or does that mess up the paper? How exactly did you make the new panel? Did you have to draw over the original sequence? If I asked you to adjust one of the images from your scans on the computer, without resizing it, could you do it?

Sorry to interrogate; thanks in advance for any answers you can give.