Eep! I seem to have disappeared for a while. Rest assured it was for no particular reason, on the offchance anyone was overly concerned (but probably not ).

TEF is still a very deer (dear) place in my heart, though, so even if I do get distracted from time to time I will eventually wander back to my forested home.

As a side-note, life's not been too generous lately... I'm in a bit of a hard spot right now. So, I was wondering if those animated siggies I was making a while ago, are still enjoyed? Is there still a demand for them? Because maybe I can open up requests again... but I'd really need to charge a small fee this time. As painful as it feels to take money for such enjoyable work, I have always short-changed myself, always felt bad about taking money for anything, but to be perfectly honest right now... I need the help. :c

So, if I was to do that, I'd let people completely customise what they want from their deer animation. I'd be able to make any pose you want, doing any animation you want. Sitting peacefully as a butterfly flits about, frolicking playfully in the grass, multiple deer interacting with eachother, the options are pretty limitless. If I made GIFs, the animations could be used almost anywhere, but they'd just loop (not so bad for simple things). But SWF animations could be even more complex, behaviours could even be randomised so that it truely feels alive, the only problem is most other forums don't allow SWF files (they do here at TEF, though) but they could still be used on personal blogs and such, so that's still pretty cool I think.

I feel confident I could make some really wonderful custom work, like the first batch of running/walking deer that people seemed to enjoy, the only problem is I can't start doing it for free again. But If there's still any interest, I could work out pricing and other details and take it from there. They'd still be dirt cheap, don't get me wrong, but there'd be other options depending on how complex you'd want it to be which would take additional hour(s) of work, and thus be slightly more 'spensive.

I'm not really expecting much of a response, I'm just putting the idea out there and seeing what happens. I've been unemployed for such a long time now... It's really quite depressing.

Anyways, nuzzles to all, hope you've all been happy and doing well in the meantime, I shall endeavor to pop online occasionally and see if I recognize anyone still.

/waves