[AVs] S2E25-26 A-canter-lot of Av Threading

[Aurora]

Av Requests

Smoke - Twilight's smugface near the end of the episode
Glaed - Pinkie using Twilight like a Machine Gun
Ragnar34 - Rar going MINE with the bouquet
reidransom - Flutters with her hair all pretty like
Crow - Flutterling rolling its eyes and morphing into Pinkie during the Main 6 v Swarmlings battle
Herr General - Dash's sonic rainboom (why)
Grue - Chrysalis avatar when she reveals her true form
HuffyTheMagicDragon - Applejack putting on her hat after glancing at Rarity near the end of the episode
OpposingFarce - Twilight shoving Applejack's hat in her face
Chaos Sonic - Twilight's pose as she says "Mi Amore Cadenza" during the picnic
All Out of Nickels - that shot of Rarity falling over at the start when she hear that Twilight's brother is the captain of the Royal guards just focusing on Fluttershy moving "Back and forth"
Gravenstein - Twi + talking sandwich
Mr. Big - Pinkie and Spike playing with the cake toppers
FightingDreamer - Twilight's facial expression as she realizes Cadence really does love Shining Armor during "This Day Aria"
Damathacus - that close up clip of Chrysalis when she looks out of the castle window and sings line "This day has been just perfect"
jqnexx - dancing Luna
Discord - the mane 6 all sending a Changeling flying in various poses

[Chaos Sonic]

Missed mine, just a couple posts above yours in the episode thread.

I'm gonna go ahead and put in my avatar request before someone else takes it. I'd like Twilight's pose here as she says "Mi Amore Cadenza" please.

[All Out Of Nickelshow would one go about putting a bloom on a apple...Its horrendous...]

Could I have a "Tracking shot" of Fluttershy at 1:25 in a loop please? (Is this even possible? I thought I saw something from Hurricane Fluttershy where it tracked Flutts being carryed) Thanks again!

Cheers!

[Crow.Why, of course!I'm clearly insane! .]

Our AV maker pals are the best.

[Aurora]

Cheers!

Is this the first part? Also try to be more descriptive of what you want when requesting because generally I can't do exact times with the way I put frames into Photoshop.

[All Out Of Nickelshow would one go about putting a bloom on a apple...Its horrendous...]

Is this the first part? Also try to be more descriptive of what you want when requesting because generally I can't do exact times with the way I put frames into Photoshop.

Well its that shot of Rarity falling over at the start when she hear that Twilight's brother is the captain of the Royal guards just focusing on Fluttershy moving "Back and forth" Thanks again.

[Herr GeneralThese chips are more interesting than your posts.]

Herr General - Dash's sonic rainboom (why)

Why not?

[londonarbuckleSee me walking around, I'm the mare about town that you heard of]

One ya missed:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1368&p=176038#p176038

[Mr. BigGood boy, Perry!]

Pinkie and Spike playing with the cake toppers. NOW KISS!

[FightingDreamerBrony For Life]

Can I have Twilight's facial expression as she realizes Cadence really does love Shining Armor during "This Day Aria"?

[Damathacus]

I'm not sure how well it's going to turn into avatar, but if it turns out ok I would like that close up clip of Chrysalis around 33:58-34:02, when she looks out of the castle window and sings line "This day has been just perfect".
I just love that piece of animation for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HsixRtMKUCk#t=2037s

[jqnexx]

I'd like dancing Luna please

[DurandalHOLY MANURE CASTLES]

Me and my fiance are going to have to take these:

[SolarisKnightI don't watch many girl's cartoons. But when I do, I watch My Little Pony]

I'm genuinely suprised nobody took Pinkie's Party Cannon yet

[ArtificerGoes well with All Natural Milk Naturally Flavored with Natural Flavors.]

Me and my fiance are going to have to take these:

Congrats on getting a fiance, then!

[jaybud4Tell your friends, I got a factory of PONIES]

Just posting to point out that this one is mine.

I made and called it out way back when we got the preview clip that showed it, so...

[DurandalHOLY MANURE CASTLES]

Just posting to point out that this one is mine.

I made and called it out way back when we got the preview clip that showed it, so...

You and Glaed may have to work that one out....

[jerrylee]

If I could get something of Twilight's grimacing speech and hoof-waving at about here (without the sandwich, please) that would be great!

[numsOic]

Just posting to point out that this one is mine.

I made and called it out way back when we got the preview clip that showed it, so...

It could stand to be remade, frankly.

[Glaed]

Damnit D: I called it within 20 seconds of it actually airing!

Buttt... Hey someone surprise me with something cool involving Celestia and/or Luna and I'll be fine.

[DiscordWhat have I done? Sweet Chaos, what have I done? Become a beast in the night, Become a God on the run, And have I fallen so far, And is the hour so late, That nothing remains but the cry of my hate, The cries in the dark that nobody hears, Here where I stand at the turning of years]

I'm genuinely suprised nobody took Pinkie's Party Cannon yet

Actually I did in the episode thread, top of page 13.

But I'd like to expand it to the montage of the mane 6 all sending a Changeling flying in various poses, if possible and not taken already.

[Aurora]

Just posting to point out that this one is mine.

I made and called it out way back when we got the preview clip that showed it, so...

Didn't Kefka tell you you couldn't do that? Glaed pretty much gets priority here.

Also, jerrylee, your request overlaps with Gravenstein's.

[kefkafloyd]

There is no requesting of anything for preview clips or before the show airs. That is not fair to people who avoid spoilers. Any claims made before the time the thing actually showed up on TV are null and void. This has been explained several times. That av should be Glaed's.

[numsOic]

Aight some avs

jerrylee, SolarisKnight, jqnexx, Damathacus (this one was impossible to keep intact so I had to make a shortish loop)

Also, jerrylee, your request overlaps with Gravenstein's.

Whoops, didn't see that. But one of them wants the sandwich and the other doesn't.

[jerrylee]

^^^ He can have it (unless it doesn't have enough sandwich for him).

Also, jerrylee, your request overlaps with Gravenstein's.

I'm sorry, I didn't see it in either the OP or the thread at the time I made my request.

[Gruekinda magical]

I decided to make my av myself, though it isn't perfect yet. I'll probably try to make a longer 15-color version later.

[numsOic]

Don't bother, 15 colors looks like shit. That one's already stretching it.

[Gruekinda magical]

Maybe I'm going for that retro 16-bit look.

[numsOic]

They make up for it by being creative with what colors they use to replace the ones they don't have and the use of techniques such as dithering. Just generating a custom palette of 15 colors doesn't make it look retro.

[jqnexx]

Thanks. Can't seem to change avatars on iPad though.

[Damathacus]

Aight some avs

jerrylee, SolarisKnight, jqnexx, Damathacus (this one was impossible to keep intact so I had to make a shortish loop)

Yeah I thought that it might be bit too complicated to get into avatar format nicely, thanks for a good try.

Edit:

I tried making one myself, I managed to remove the panning of shot, but even after I removed over half of the frames it was way too much to fit into 75KB. It was not even close, it was somewhere around 250KB with 50 colors.

I then tried making small loop like you but I don't have any idea what kind of gypsy magic you use to get so many frame to fit into that 75KB limit.

This was best I could manage to fit into that limit:

[DarkMatter]

I think I might want an av of Queen Chrysalis but I'm not sure of what. I'll just wait for any "free for anyone to use" avs and maybe take one of those.

[numsOic]

This was best I could manage to fit into that limit:

To begin with, you didn't even optimize it. That same avatar with optimization and no other changes yields 66.3 KiB for me.

[Stuff]

Man, she looks so freaky.

I just realized this type of thread won't be happening again for a while.

So I just want to say thanks for completing those avatars I've requested back then.

[Damathacus]

To begin with, you didn't even optimize it. That same avatar with optimization and no other changes yields 66.3 KiB for me.

I didn't mean to offend you, I honestly have no idea how you manage to do some stuff you do. I want to learn though, so I'm curious how did you optimize that avatar?
All I do for optimization is select Save For Web from Photoshop then check settings for dither, transparency etc, and then just reduce color palate until it's just under 75KB. After that I use Gif Movie Gear to check timings and just save it.

Do you use some other tool to optimize them or something like that?

[numsOic]

Don't worry, you didn't offend me or anything. I was just pointing out the most obvious fixable thing.

I use Gifsicle, but you already use GIF Movie Maker, which has optimization capabilities in Animation > Optimize. You'll want every option ticked. Most of the time, Gifsicle will give smaller results, so that's what I use.

GIF Movie Maker is relatively good at color reduction when locking colors (i.e. intentionally keeping one or more specific colors for the final palette), at least when it doesn't involve dithering, so with your current process you can save your avatar at 125x125 as a .psd file from Photoshop and then open it in GIF Movie Maker. Remember to activate 24-bit color at Edit > Preferences > Export > Maintain 24-Bit Color. You'll have to play around with the palette size. Save only after you've optimized it and it's the desired filesize, since for some reason GMM erases the undo history upon saving.

Other tips: reduce the number of frames as much as possible while keeping the action readable, and cut the area of change from one frame to another as much as possible (so the frame is cropped more after optimization, thus making it smaller).

[Damathacus]

Don't worry, you didn't offend me or anything. I was just pointing out the most obvious fixable thing.

I use Gifsicle, but you already use GIF Movie Maker, which has optimization capabilities in Animation > Optimize. You'll want every option ticked. Most of the time, Gifsicle will give smaller results, so that's what I use.

GIF Movie Maker is relatively good at color reduction when locking colors (i.e. intentionally keeping one or more specific colors for the final palette), at least when it doesn't involve dithering, so with your current process you can save your avatar at 125x125 as a .psd file from Photoshop and then open it in GIF Movie Maker. Remember to activate 24-bit color at Edit > Preferences > Export > Maintain 24-Bit Color. You'll have to play around with the palette size. Save only after you've optimized it and it's the desired filesize, since for some reason GMM erases the undo history upon saving.

Other tips: reduce the number of frames as much as possible while keeping the action readable, and cut the area of change from one frame to another as much as possible (so the frame is cropped more after optimization, thus making it smaller).

Nice thanks. GIF Movie Maker's optimization didn't do really anything, but Gifsicle did cut it down to 66KB after I learned how to use it.
Also good grief it is annoying to use command line tools in windows after working with Linux for many years.

[numsOic]

Like I said, you have to tick every box in the optimization dialogue. But if you're using gifsicle already then go for it. Just use -O3.

[shotgunbadgerBeing pressed into labor is fun, as long as the work is peppy!]

I can't pick an AV so I'm gonna be a Changeling and scavenge around for whatever avs people whip up and don't get used.

[jqnexx]

EDIT: Moved to next page.