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The Outsider's realm

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Okay.
This is my submission for this year's Steam Contest: fav.me/d9k33ou by ChavisO2.
I will also submit pictures of two frames of the animation in better detail and write about the image stuff there and the animation stuff here.

It's a fanart to the game Dishonored by Arkane Studio, depicting the main character Corvo Attano in the Outsider's realm.

The file size was pretty big, so it's probably slow to load.
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Right. I had planned to do an animation pretty much from the start and researched a few techniques after getting the final layout of the sketch done. After several Youtube videos, little trial animations and Google searches about "Gifs with sounds?" I felt ready to prepare all the parts needed for the animation and recorded some sounds.
I was actually excited about the weird screeches of our old violin and ripping paper and whatnot, but my file was getting bigger and bigger, which was problematic.

After getting the timing of the animation (kinda) done with the unfinished layers I soon gathered, that Photoshop had trouble with generating a video, so I ditched the sound. It had to crash 4 times for me to realize that I had to reduce file size big time and I was not happy about it. A 1700x1000 px big animation was out of the question, but I hoped to get at least a width of around 900... but the thing got so small that you probably can't tell what is going on, or what they hold in their hands.

Working on this and especially the timeline option in PS was very informative and I improved already between my first and second version, but maybe one day I'll be able to spice this thing up, make it big and add the sound I wanted, because right now all I can think about is all the details that didn't make it into the final version.

Also, is 10 mb big for a gif video? Or 140 frames a lot? I really don't know how to make it smaller without losing quality.


I'm not tagging it as mature content, but if you feel I should, please tell me.

First picture, Solo Corvo: fav.me/d9z26qd
Other picture, Multi Corvo: fav.me/d9z24im
WIPs  on tumblr: kohlkopfus.tumblr.com/post/142…
Image size
666x425px 9.15 MB
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momossd's avatar

its so cool and it looks awesome:heart:

Bravo :heart: