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Krazy Kat · Jul 28, 2009, 02:29 AM // 02:29

Krazy Kat's Commissions!
Welcome to my commission thread! I will be making animated gifs of any situation in Guild Wars that you request. I also can remove the background off any number of characters you want. You may also visit my deviantART page and gallery if you'd like to see more examples.

Instructions

Fill out the appropriate request form below and post it in this thread.

Animated gifs: I will meet you in game and will record a video of the situation described in your posting.
Background removal: I will meet you in game (preferably in an unpopulated district of Random Arenas by the gray tent) to take a picture of the character(s) you wish to have background removal done on. I will then remove the background and put the character(s) in a new background of your choosing (make sure you honor any copyrights). If you would like the pictures with the background removed, I will send them to you via e-mail.

Pricing

Simple GIFs: 10K per
Advanced GIFs: 5K and up extra
Background Removal: 10K per character

*Advanced GIFs require extra effort to make, such as traveling time to area requested, combining videos, syncing characters, etc. (An example of an advanced gif is clearing Hell's Precipice to record a video of whacking the Lich Lord.)

Animated GIF Request Form

In-game name:
Description of GIF: (Your character doing an emote, attacking enemy, performing a skill, etc)
Size: 100x100, 150x150, etc. If size is not provided then I will create a GIF at a size of my discretion.
Special Requests for GIFs (Optional): Banner Text (Include Colours), and Slow-Down/Speed Up (Specify if you want the entire GIF slowed down/sped up or just a certain part), Combining Videos
Timezone and Availability:

Background Removal Request Form

In-game name:
How many characters?:
Size: 1920x1080, 150x150, etc. If size is not provided then I will create an image at a size of my discretion.
New Background:
Timezone and Availability:
If you want the pictures with the background removed, please PM me your e-mail address.

Contacting Me

You may reach me in game by whispering my main account Krazy Katherine. You may also reach me on my second account Joyous Jasmine but it is highly preferred that you contact me on my main account as I watch it the most. You may also PM here on Guru or post in this thread if you'd like. I live in New York City (Eastern Standard Time or GMT -5) and am generally online in the afternoons and evenings. Sometimes on rare occasions you can find me online in the mornings too

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Keep in mind that I also provide a dungeon running service as well and at times may have delays getting your requests fulfilled.

Completed Requests for Animated GIFs

Icy The Mage (#1, #2 v1, #2 v2, #3, #4)
Lumin Solia (#1, #2)
Tender Wolf (#1)
Mara Darkstrike (#1, #2)
Alacrity Deathpixie (#1, #2 v1, #2 v2, #3, #4 pt1, #4 pt2, Freebie #1, Freebie #2, Freebie #3, Freebie #4)
Konig Des Todes (#1)
Luna Lynn (#1)

Completed Requests for Background Removal

The Lirin Namer (#1, #2)
Luna Lynn (#1)
Miss Temptress (#1, #2)

Waiting List

Icy The Mage · Jul 28, 2009, 03:16 AM // 03:16

OMG Yes!

I will be buying many of these ^_^

In-game name: Icy The Mage
Description of GIF requested: Multiple different ones
Size: Depends on action, will have multiple emotes / actions for different sizes

Special Requests: Again, I have many special ideas in mind

Timezone and Availability: Eastern Standard Time (currently 11:15 p.m.) Available from 5pm through 12pm on weekdays & noon-->3am on weekends

Konig Des Todes · Jul 28, 2009, 04:10 AM // 04:10

I would love a gif image, but not sure of what. :P

I'll think of it and get back to you. But DEFINABLY gonna use your offer with that pricing!

Icy The Mage · Jul 28, 2009, 04:25 AM // 04:25

Shameless bump~ love it, one of many-to-come works of art

carbajac · Jul 28, 2009, 05:24 AM // 05:24

This is cool, I'd like to reserve a spot if I could while I think of something good.

Ok, I've decided:
* In-game name: Colm Dudeee or Wat Buddhawat (probably the one I'll be using at the time)
* Description of GIF requested: I was wanting me and my brother's character do a short action sequence and another with us transforming.
* Size: The sizes of the one's you've completed so far seem fine, whatever would fit, I'll leave that to you.
* Special Requests (Optional): Not sure of any special requests, but I imagine it may include some clipping of video
* Timezone and Availability: I'm on Mountain time and I'm usually on from 3-5 pm and sometimes 7-11pm (5-7 EST or 9pm - 1am EST). Wednesday and sometimes Sunday.

Thanks for waiting

MartynThompson · Jul 28, 2009, 06:27 AM // 06:27

what a waste of money
http://www.gifninja.com/
when you decide what you want to get in the picture continuously prees prnt screen
then locate image then go to that website

Konig Des Todes · Jul 28, 2009, 06:31 AM // 06:31

Martyn, if you notice, Krazy's are videos. Also, the website's "videos to gif" cannot exceed 4 seconds. Icy's first two commissions are over 4 seconds long. Thus, not a waste of money. If you want a picture gif, or a short video gif, then yes, it would probably be a waste of money, but not if you want longer than 4 seconds of video.

Duranin · Jul 28, 2009, 01:23 PM // 13:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartynThompson

what a waste of money
http://www.gifninja.com/
when you decide what you want to get in the picture continuously prees prnt screen
then locate image then go to that website

lol, it's not that easy. plus unless you have the reflexes of a machine, the frames per second you could get with print screen would be terrible. (and very inefficient)

Konig Des Todes · Jul 28, 2009, 01:58 PM // 13:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Araiia of the Songs

lol, it's not that easy. plus unless you have the reflexes of a machine, the frames per second you could get with print screen would be terrible. (and very inefficient)

Actually, spamming print screen isn't that hard (at least for me) and setting the speed at the right rate would make it not skip. The issue is that it would be a hell of a long list of pictures even for just a couple seconds.

Duranin · Jul 28, 2009, 02:06 PM // 14:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Konig Des Todes

Actually, spamming print screen isn't that hard (at least for me) and setting the speed at the right rate would make it not skip. The issue is that it would be a hell of a long list of pictures even for just a couple seconds.

I must have the worst spamming skills then

I don't know how I survive the killroy brawl on my survivor!

I think Kat uses virtualdub actually, which is taking a recorded video and splitting it into a crap load of separate images. It's more manageable than doing it manually though @@;

In any case i'd rather pay for a commission than have to go through that pain myself. And ImageReady (the only animating program I have) apparently really hates preserving image quality when converting to gifs.

Verene · Jul 28, 2009, 02:15 PM // 14:15

As someone who has used print screen to create the frames to make an animated GIF...

Yeah. You end up with a ton of images just for one short animation, and I won't even go into the pain that is cropping and resizing them all right so that nothing is thrown off.

Better to take a video and put it into a video program that automatically takes caps/forms it into a GIF.

Though I've never had any problem with saving GIFs in ImageReady, Araiia. It's really a matter of experimenting with the number of colors, frames, image size, etc. But I've been making animations in it for years with no problems

Anyway, very cute, Kat

Duranin · Jul 28, 2009, 02:31 PM // 14:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Verene

Though I've never had any problem with saving GIFs in ImageReady, Araiia. It's really a matter of experimenting with the number of colors, frames, image size, etc. But I've been making animations in it for years with no problems

WTB TUTORIAL ;-;

I can't figure it out still ~ ~ like Kat's gifs, they look like they have more than 256 colours. I don't know how to uncap the max colour limit o.o

I did it once by accident, a long long time ago, but I forgot how xP

Verene · Jul 28, 2009, 03:03 PM // 15:03

Well, with GIFs it is impossible to 'uncap' the max color limit - the file size itself is what limits it to 256.

There are different dithering techniques that can effect how nice it looks. I'd go through and post up some of the settings I used, but I have Photoshop CS4 now which does animations built in, so I don't have ImageReady anymore, and I've yet to make any animations using just PS ^^;

Krazy Kat · Jul 29, 2009, 06:41 AM // 06:41

Just finished Tender Wolf's commission.

Konig Des Todes · Jul 29, 2009, 06:55 AM // 06:55

I got basic idea of two gif's I'd like. But due to my very obscure sleeping habits caused by my family reunion (only had 1 hour of sleep that day! x_x) I dunno if I can get on at a "reasonable time" for us Americans.