**Question/Request/Chat Thread**

[Gordon "ALF" Shumway]

Here you guys can post exactly like it says in the title.. Questions and requests. Plus you can chat about animating and poses. Have fun, and hope to see tons of poses and animations. Peace.

-"Primetime" Nick Nitro

[Precursor Customs]

What Kinda String Do You Use?

~MC

[Gordon "ALF" Shumway]

I use really thin clear thread, it works well for me. It is "Stitch Thru" .004 nylon thread. Hope that helps.

[Precursor Customs]

No Fish String?

~MC

[Gordon "ALF" Shumway]

I dont use any fishing line, but, go right ahead and try it, it might work, I haven't tried it.

[X~Moose-uck it~X]

how do I make Animations? or where do I make animations?

and after I do make it how can I put it on a site? like Tripod for example

[Gordon "ALF" Shumway]

(Now remember that this will be a long and tedious process) First to make an animation, what you gotta do is to get some figs some kind of string, a digital camera, and possibly a tripod, or books to set the camera on (I'll talk about the program and stuff you need further down). First take some time to think up what you wanna do for an animation (ani for short) start off with something simple too. Then once you figure out what you want to do, set up your figs,get a good camera angle, and then put your camera on a tripod or a steady place. Then every time you move them about a centimeter, take a picture with your digital camera. During the ani, you should use string to keep the figs up for "mid-air" shots. If you have trouble holding the string with one hand and taking a pic with the other, then get some sort of dowel or stick, and prop it up or even hold it, and then attach the strings to your figs and then the strings to the dowel, and take the pic. Once you take all your pics, then you'll need to upload them to your computer. Once they are uploaded, then you'll need a program to put the ani together, you can get the program a couple different ways, you can get it at www.jasc.com/products/trialreg.asp?pid=003 and download the trial version of Jasc Animation Shop 3, which will last you 60 days and then you gotta buy it, or you can ...*gasp* download it from a filesharing program such as Kazaa, or WinMX, or whatever you use, or you can get it from me on AIM, or MSN instant messenger. My screen name on AIM is sXe GDI sXe . My email is [e-mail] . Ok, and now to tell you how to use the program, Ill will post that in my next post, because I have to make sure I am telling you the right way to do it, heh.

[Gordon "ALF" Shumway]

Once the program is intalled, you have to open it up, and then go to File and then to Animation Wizard . Then a window will pop up saying something like ... What do you want the total dimesons of the new animation to be? Click the bullet that says Same size as the first image frame . Then click Next, then click the bullet next to Opaque. Then click Next again. Then click the bullets that say Centered in the frame and With the canvas color. Don't to click the box that says Scale frames to fit. Then click Next. Click the bullet that says repeat the animation indefintiely and where it says: How long you want each frame to be displayed (in 1/100 of a second), a good number to start off with is 10 . then click next. Click add image then select all the pictures you want for the animation, and then click open then once you have got all the images you want in the right order, then click next, then click finish. now all the frames should be layed out in a sequence. Then to view your animation, click View and then click Animation, then you will see how it came out and if you have to delete or change the order of the frames you have put together. Once you have the ani all set the way you want it, just click Fie save, and name it what you want, and make sure its going to save as a .gif file, and its going to go where you want it to go. Then your animation should be complete.

[Gordon "ALF" Shumway]

To upload it to the net, you must first make an account on a site. I use Angelfire, because its easy to use, and because some other sites either charge you money, or dont give you enough *FREE* space.. Ok, so now you got a web page to upload onto. I cant type the rest now because my hands are about to fall off from typing so much. I will edit this post later, and if you have any questions in the mean time, IM me, or email me, or PM me. Peace.

[X~Moose-uck it~X]

wow man thanks for takin the time out to help me, your one kick ass dude lol thanks I will IM you because it will be tough im just a little boy in a big world

thanks

[kamillion]

ok people. i am completely new to this forum thing and would love to display my custom titles,and when i say custom i dont mean print outs(no offense to any). so, if someone can tell me how to get that damned * symbol off the pic so i can post my pics on here and get response's.thanks.

[Gordon "ALF" Shumway]

kamillion said:

ok people. i am completely new to this forum thing and would love to display my custom titles,and when i say custom i dont mean print outs(no offense to any). so, if someone can tell me how to get that damned * symbol off the pic so i can post my pics on here and get response's.thanks.

First of all, You wanna post this in the customs board, but I can help ya anyways....

What you gotta do is upload it to a site such as photobucket.com and then when you post it on this site, you have to get the URL of the pic, and then you have to type: [*IMG*] the URL here [*/IMG*] without the *'s. If you have any more questions just post in the Customs board, and if no one answers it there I'll help ya out.

[kamillion]

is it free?and how do i upload it to here

[TheChampJohnCena]

Thanks for taking the time for those instructions man..I appreciate it.