I wanted to draw something before going to bed, but it turned out that I ended doing this simple animation.   Sorry about the drawings not being so clean or right, but I was kinda of a hurry.  Anyway, I do think it turned out presentable at least, that, and Vicky is not the only one having an animated avatar anymore.   

Vicky, If you are reading this. I was too lazy to color it maybe you wanna help me out.  Just maybe, or I'll find out time and will later.

Lets this be just the start for more of at least simple animations.....

I saw this as I was about to go out earlier, didnt get time to comment. But for a quick one that is mightly impressive...... only animation I can do is basic logos lol....

Animation is good, smooth coloured and properly looped that would look awsome!

You got that right, Cargo. 

Well, anyway. This was only intended to be an avatar .  Nothing more.   And creating moving scribbles like you said is not a waste of time by anymeans to me,they are fun to do.   I could do longer moving scribbles to make a real animation but it will take me more time, and I still have to illustrate lots of more things for other places around the net, so yes, I think I keep this thread as "Animating Avatars" for now.  Only time will tell where this thread is going to go in the future.   

One very important thing I want to say, for me, it is more important to draw fifty schetches or more a day than one finished color picture evey other day. Practice makes perfect and colors is just something else completely.  Illustrators from their roots, have a lot of life drawing backgroud on their backs, still life or something that only requires pencil.  Color is a pretty thing, yeah.  But I prefer to keep doing as many sketches a day than coloring them unless the picture is a really special one.


Opus

Thanks Casper.  I'm sorry, but I forgot to mention that she was suppose to be yawning.  She was with me all night drawing. 

That'd be great, Vicky.  Thanks a lot in advance. 

Didnt want to start a new topic for this, but dont get your hopes up, it isnt a Lisa animation unfortunatly. But it is proof that my artistic side is not dead! Whoo!!

I created a very small animation simply by tracing one of my skateboarding clips, frame by frame. Took a while but I'm pleased with the result. Only problem being I'd like to turn it into an avatar, so it would be .GIF format. I dont have a program with that capability, however, I have got a video converter to turn it into .SWF, so thats easy enough to upload here.

Could anyone help me turn the no sound version into an avatar? I'd use it for my YouTube account, so it should be under 256kb. Danké!

OPUS
Sadly, your image loads only partially from Photobucket (only one frame, then the load hangs up)...
Can you upload it as an attachment, or it's too big?

Is it now visible, Serge?

I think this should do the job.  24 drawings now.  Like you say 12, then the same 12 in reverse order.  looks good, I think.  Thanks, Serge!

another quick animation

"whats with the wind?"

Fantastically done there Opus........ you have got the motion down to a tee there.

Expressions are fantastic too. Look forward to more.

Nice animated Gadget! I used to watch this serial in my childhood, like many people did in early 90's.

OPUS
This is fantastic. All I can say.
I would praise myself if I was able to draw any of the frames used for this animation...
Anyway, very good proportions, nice (even a bit attractive ) character. My only nitpick is that that "separating" line on her tail disappears on few frames, if that can be called nitpick at all. Aside from that, it's great. Cute detail with those "tufts" on her shoulders, that suits her a lot

I believe I used 24 frames, but this is a little bit over a sec of animation.  Almost two seconds.  For professional animation they use 24 frames per second, but I'm far away from that.  Still learning you know.   I enjoyed it anyway!