It's about time I made a proper thread for this, so here goes! (Read more for info & gallery). By the way, "Online/Offline" means when I'm broadcasting on Livestream, so if you see it 'Online', come stop by and say hello!


NEWS~ REQUESTS ARE NOW CLOSED (17th Jan)
Hi everyone

I wanted to make a note here that characters with very long hair will hitherto use the new 'walk' cycle, which I had originally planned to keep to my own.

The reason for this, is that to properly animate long hair billowing at a fast pace would be too complex. It would take far too long for me to draw correctly and would be unreasonably taxing to everyone's computers.

I gave more thought to this, and decided not to give people a choice of animation now that I have two to work from. If I were to give everyone that choice, I would also have to give all my past requestees that choice, and I'd potentially have to re-do old requests again with a different animation. This wouldn't be fair on everyone still waiting to get theirs done. Where possible, I will create all other requests using the 'run' animation as normal.

I'm also closing requests at this point. We're up to 3 pages of requests now, and I still have about 6 left to do on the first page! xD I'm not sure I will ever get all of these done, but I certainly have enough to keep me occupied for a long time already.

Thank you everyone for your patience while you wait, thank you for any giftart you've sent in return for these, thank you for your comments and encouragements, and thank you for understanding the decisions I have made above.



LATEST~

Almos: http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/7758/almos.swf

Sithrim: http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5642/sithrim.swf




WHAT IS THIS?!
Having had a burst of inspiration out of wtf-nowhere lately, I ended up with a neat little running deer animation that I can easily customise (to an extent). So I'm taking requests for a while, but I have a couple of requests of you in return~


-Provide a picture or description of your deer.

-Currently I am only doing this one 'Running' animation, so please do not request a different pose at this time.
The animation is by far the most time-consuming process and doing that would take me days to complete each request! Domo arigatou. :3

-Please note that excessive detail may be difficult;
As I am creating these for free, I don't want to spend more than an hour or two on each one (unless I'm really having fun with it!)

-Related to the above point, some artistic liberty may be exercised, but I'll try to stay as faithful to your design as possible.
Detail in certain areas may be hard to achieve due to all the bodypieces moving around, but I'll do my best. I may have to make some alterations though. Also, don't be suprised if little 'extras' find their way in occasionally, depending on what I've read about your character.

-But having said this, if there's any unique features your deer has, don't be afraid to mention them!
I'll decide as I go whether I can manage it or not.

-ONE PER PERSON-
This is just so I can serve different people and not get burnt out doing 1 person's fifty-bajillion deer!

-When using these in your signature, please be aware that smaller is better.
I would strongly suggest not exceeding the default size I give you, which is 315x240, on these boards. However, you are free to display this outside of the TEF community, and there you can increase the size to whatever you want!



The Gallery (Newest first)~
Almos
Sithrim
Zeekii
Solitude
Ambrosius
Quamar
Luis
Solaya
Kita
R'Dikjayhl
Spyrre
Kinsha
Irial
Shimmy
Three
Haru
Moogie



Working on Currently~
Almos


USING YOUR NEW SIGNATURE
Add the following code to your sig:

{object width='315' height='240'}{embed src='YOUR_URL_HERE' width='315' height='240' wmode='transparent'/}{/object}

(Replace all { } with < > symbols when you copy it and replace YOUR_URL_HERE with the Url for your personal file-- also I would heartily recommend not exceeding this size, as large sigs can be rather annoying to some people. But it can be made smaller or bigger as you wish, and no detail will be lost.)



**A note regarding potential issues**
I am keenly aware that SWF files are inherantly more CPU-intensive than GIF files. The reason I went with SWF is because the GIFs weren't animating properly, and they had very bad issues with colour and transparency. So, I am going to be watching this very carefully to ensure it doesn't start causing people problems. Do note however that I have made every effort to optimize these animations so that they are lightweight and non-disruptive (they are barely 40kb each! Most gifs weigh in well over 100kb, sometimes even over 1mb!). Nevertheless, users with slow computers may notice a difference. Please let me know if it becomes unbearable and I will seek another alternative. Thank you~