Lazy

[pasithea]

I wassa bad girl. I haven't written my paper yet or got much done in the way of housework or artwork. Instead, I went hiking with centauress, merin, and salia today. We went to Perry Grant again. Very very hot and that place is infested with wild pigs. *shiver* We musta seen at least a dozen of them including a male razorbacky-looking one complete with full-body mohawk. I fear the piggies!

We also saw about a dozen wild turkeys. Oooh! Turkeys are much cuter than wild boar. I like tha turkeys!

Anyhow. After we hiked in the hot hot sun for a long time, we went to the mall to cool down 'n' Stacey bought me this really nifty wooden snake which is what I stop-motion animated, then photoshopped a bit to make this icon on this post! :)

Not sure I'll keep the icon. The animation is a little rough. The snake, though is really cute and he's got a LOT of potential as a stop-motion animation puppet. I named him Mr. Slithers. :)

All in all, a fun day if a smidge unproductive. :)

Comments

Nice icon!

[sslaxx.livejournal.com]

How long did it take to animate/manipulate? It doesn't look like a wooden toy, certainly.

gives strawberries

Heh. A friend of mine adores pigs! Did you take any photos of 'em?

Re: Nice icon!

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Umm... Only about 10 minutes for the actual animation. Very friendly to work with. I spent probably about another 2 hours setting up the camera and stage and then deciding what filters still looked nifty and snakelike but would make GIF animation smaller than 40K to use as a LJ Icon. He's really more like a stop-motion puppet that has been rotoscoped in the finished icon thingy.

[amilori.livejournal.com]

I've often thought that those snakes would make a base for a tail (gives the faux fur sock a spine of sorts).