well i have 2 animations now, one is mine the other is a friend's idea.. here they come oh yah mine is regarding planes and crashing, so if you are afraid of that or politically sensitive, don't look at it.

here is another for you death metal rocking satanic rednecks

that reminds me of an old atari game for some reason

A close inspection of that file reveals that its grayscales are not the same as the limited colors available on the empeg screen. This will make some of the gray shades in the anti-aliased sections look different when you get it into the player.

Just so you know ahead of time.

Tom, does the Riocar site know how to refuse the animated gifs based on color depth, too?

yah i actually noticed it looks better on the player.. how can i figure out which of the greyscales the empeg supports? So it is an exact match and so i don't get rejected when i do one that i actually want up on the riocar site.. also i have no problem posting the psd of them for assistance sake either.

how can i figure out which of the greyscales the empeg supports?

Draw a picture in logoeditor using each of the four colors. Copy that image to the clipboard and paste it into your image-editing software as a new image.

Your image-editing software should have the ability to create a palette based on the colors in this new image. If you can't create a palette of four colors, create one with 16 colors where 13 of the colors are just black.

Then use this palette for all of your color reduction work.

Tom, does the Riocar site know how to refuse the animated gifs based on color depth, too?

No, because it dosen't use them. My early hack for animated logos did, alongside the raw for download. But now, the site only accepts .raw files, and assumes that they came from Jemplode. Since that takes care of the color issue, I don't have to worry about it on the site.

Riiiiight... I forgot it took .RAWs. Good point.

/me goes to give self a dope slap.

tux dies - i abused your animation

and the gif

Hey Rockstar, thanks
That was pretty cool. I like the exit wound.
It kind of reminds me of South Park and Kenny

Oh yeah, and I think it's about time somebody kacked the little b@#$%^d. Since I've been trying to teach myself Linux I've wanted to many times.

lol, i heard requests to knock off tux, so i figured i would give it a shot.. it is too long tho, i need to see how i can shorten it and rework the targeting animation too.

GLAD SOMEONE liked it

My girlfriend felt like she lost a friend when I added a custom animation...Gotta show her the sliding tux though..She'll love it..

First attempt...Call it Penguin Powered Posting raw first and then will post gif...

Anyone have suggestions or comments, please share...

-Steve

Above posted as .txt. When downloading, rename to .raw

Here's the animated gif..

that's cool, good job, make sure you submit it to riocar.org for the archives

the footsteps are great

the footsteps are great

I think they're supposed to be bullet holes.

ahhh crap. those gif's are small and i'm stoned.

Hmm, maybe I need to work on it a little more...make the holes a little more obvious..

My entry.... but it doesn' t say "HiJAck" so I'm already disqualified!

I'm not much of an animator. This was done with Microsoft Paint!

Alright, alright, I know I am a bit late to the whole animation contest thing,
but here's my creation, I know it's personalized, so none of you will probably use it, but it works for me.
and if you have an accord, feel free to use frames from it...

...here's the .psd I used, in case anyone finds it handy...

pretty cool man, make sure you upload it @ riocar.org

The GIF image you posted here to the BBS has too many shades of gray for the empeg display. Those will be posterized down to just two shades of gray when you attempt to put it into the animation editor.

I figured as much, but it looks great on the empeg, so that good for me,
btw....
is there a way in photoshop to set the "usable" colors
So that only the appropriate colors are use when dawing?
I just can't seem to get that figured out....

I don't know how to do it in photoshop. I think that program does an awful job of handling palletized images. I use Paint Shop Pro which allows you to create your own palette from scratch. Values for the palette are in the FAQ.

grassyass.

you can make your own pallete in photoshop as well, from scratch.. what i am trying to figure out is how to get photoshop to allow me to let it interpret the pallette and adjust the images.