2001 Christmas Card108 viewsThis is my first animation I did for a Christmas card. As you can see, I was using a slow computer, so the frame rate is very bad (it's too fast). I tried fixing it, so it was even faster when I first released it (heh heh)...
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2002 Christmas Card91 viewsI made this animation a little more interactive. If you slowly move your mouse around on the picture, stuff may appear. Don't click on the visit web site link, because it's linked to the wrong URL now.
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2003 Christmas Card54 viewsThis is probably the most complicated animation I've ever done. I spent a long time doing this one (those presents moving was a bit of a chore). I vowed after this that my next animations would be much simpler. The second part is actually a cartoon I've drawn that I decided to animate.
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2004 Christmas Card54 viewsOK, so maybe I made it too simple this year! Anyway, this is supposed to be Holly walking around in the deep snow. At the end, she spells the text for the card before she runs into the tree. It didn't take long to do this animation, but the snow presented somewhat of a problem. But after a couple of test runs, I figured it all out...
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2005 Christmas Card72 viewsHey, thanks for visiting the link I emailed/IM you! This is my sixth annual Christmas card animation. The animation is 300KB, so it should take a minute or two on dial-up to load! Yes, that is supposed to be Holly (a front view), and the one that's talking off to the side (you can't see her) is Holly's new owner I will be introducing shortly. Her name is Leigh (the girl's spelling of Lee) ^_^'
I would have had this out sooner (yes, what follows is my excuse), but we have just moved from Georgia back to Hawaii, and I still can't find my SCSI cable for my scanner! After searching through boxes for three months, I finally decided to take a picture of my drawing with our digital camera. The drawing and coloring isn't as high quality as usual since I was trying to get this out in two days (as it was, it took me ten hours total, including the information lost when my hard drive crashed) =P
I hope yall really enjoy the card that I slaved over this year to produce.
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2006 Christmas Card99 viewsPlease be patient as it loads (about 5 minutes on dialup)...
Merry Christmas everyone! Autumn is a new addition to the caste of characters, and our family. Lady passed away last year, so we got a new puppy. I'll post pictures of her one of these days. She's still a puppy, so her character still has room for improvement. If anyone is wondering about the funny orange and yellow glob moving on her head, that's supposed to be flames. Leigh is the one that finds Autumn glowing. The heart is Leigh's trademark. She's the new owner/mommy that has yet to make an actual apperance, even tho she's been in two Christmas cards. Maybe next year the shy gal will make an appearance for all our readers...but no promises! Autumn was supposd to distract Leigh long enough for Holly and Sly (GASP) to grab the cookies. I know it's amazing, but food can bring even rivals together! But I never said Holly shared the cookies wih Sly...
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2007 Christmas Card93 viewsWow, this is by far the largest (in size and MB) and longest card that I've made yet. Actually, to be honest, I was planning on doing a still card this year due to my schedule, but I changed my mind after I finished coloring the pictures (Christmas day). Besides, I wouldn't want to break a 6 year standing tradition, now would I? So I animated this card after everything was drawn and colored, which made things very awkward and difficult! One reason why it was released a day late. And if you're wondering what the background is, that's tone (it's supposed to give the appearance of sand) that became moire after I resized the images in Photoshop. You'll just have to ignore it, because I didn't have time to try and fix it. Plus, it was my first endeavor to use tone in Manga Studio >_<
But as promised (in last year's card), I have delivered the goods...namely Leigh. That's all I'll say, least I ruin the card for those that are reading this as it loads >=3
Anyway, check back later if you're interested in downloading the last picture frame in all it's glory (12IN x 9IN @ 600DPI = very LARGE file). I hope that you enjoyed your Christmas, and that you'll have a happy new year!
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR from Lee and the rest of the gang here at Cartoonist for Christ...
P.S. Oh, and don't forget to move your curser over the characters at the end for hidden comments!
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2008 Christmas Card72 viewsThis was a little late because I decided to buy and try using Anime Studio Pro (ASP) at the last minute since they had a fire sale, rather than use Adobe Livemotion. Plus the fact that I got sick yesterday afternoon, or it would have been done sooner. Anyway, despite the short comings of ASP, I think I'll stick with it. I was planing on using my voice for the narration, but time constraints and other problems prevented that. Hopefully the next card will have full sound. The animation is a tad big (3MB) because I added background music (yes, I bought it, so don't worry). In case you're wondering what vog is, it's smog spewed out of the Kilauea volcano and can make you very sick (and of course it's white). Here is a link to the Wikipedia definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vog
The mouse is supposed to represent me. Over the last year or so I've started developing my mouse drawings more than my other comics. I still don't have a name for it yet, tho. The feet you see under the vog is supposed to be our pets Autumn, Lady, and Holly. Well, I guess that's about it...oh, and the card will continually loop forever because ASP has literally no control over Flash scripting like Livemotion did.
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