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[Almirena]

I would like to see your koloboks. I had a vague memory that the boomerang kolobok was one of yours, but I have double-checked and realise that it's DrDiesel's work.

[BradLee]

I would like to see your koloboks. I had a vague memory that the boomerang kolobok was one of yours, but I have double-checked and realise that it's DrDiesel's work.

Yep. The boomerang was DrD's work.

I don't even know where my smileys ARE anymore. I know I posted a few on here, and a few on the (now deleted) SmileyGenerator forums. I probably have some scattered across a few of my old backups too, but they are certainly not all in the one place. Some of them I've probably lost for good.

[Almirena]

Oh no!

When I was in my first year at uni, I had some unpublished manuscripts on a computer which was misbehaving. While I was out of the house, my father called a so-called computer technician who decided that the only fix was to reformat the hard drive... I lost writings and some other files that could not be retrieved, even though I ended up paying a data recovery company. (They retrieved about ㉏ - 90% of the files. Murphy's Law... the really important stuff was gone for ever.)

If you do find any of your works, I hope you post them here.


EDIT: I had to edit "eighty" in numeral form to a html character, as otherwise it kept on rendering as a kolobok. ... (see?)

This post has been edited by Almirena: Aug 16 2019, 01:17 AM

[Reny]

Hi BradLee....nice to see you here again

[BradLee]

Hi BradLee....nice to see you here again

Hi Reny... it's nice to see you too.

Oh no!

If you do find any of your works, I hope you post them here.

I am not so worried. They were all fairly simple to make.

Besides, now I have even more incentive to make some newer/better ones.

This post has been edited by BradLee: Aug 9 2019, 04:55 PM

[Almirena]

Clubs suit (1-10) - playing cards (Kolobok State set)




The cards so far...







This post has been edited by Almirena: Aug 12 2019, 08:53 PM

[Almirena]

The remaining cards:








The complete card deck of Kolobok State cards:






This post has been edited by Almirena: Aug 12 2019, 09:27 PM

[Reny]

Almirena - great -so nice, an amazing work and a great idea. I really like the king's animation with the crown...and my favorites are the jokers.

[Almirena]

Thank you, Reny. These were amazing to work on; the court cards in particular (K, Q, J) took a great deal of time and many moments of frustration to get the colours and details to look right at 100%.


New kolobok - a customer service representative:





This post has been edited by Almirena: Aug 16 2019, 01:02 AM

[BradLee]

The complete card deck of Kolobok State cards:

[snip]

Those must have taken ages.
Maybe they could do with a border on the card edges though, so it doesn't "wash" on a light background?

I mentioned that I would be making a kolobok with its arm in a sling... so I've finally got around to it.

A boy kolobok with his arm in a sling, and a girl version with her arm in a sling:

These are wonderful too!!! I forgot to comment on them earlier.

Have you ever been to a carnival or fair, where one of the stalls offered the Laughing Clowns game?

They always fascinated me, those inexorably turning clown heads with the gaping mouths!

This is really well done. And I think you have nailed the turning movement.
One small change I would make though is to make ithe head turn just as far in the other direction.
Then it would be perfect!

I hope you don't mind my suggestions too much.

[Almirena]

BradLee, I do not mind suggestions at all. Sometimes they give another perspective, or added weight to something, and I'm very conscious of not being a gifted artist and having had to learn kolobok-making from scratch by examining other people's koloboks in detail, sometimes frame by frame.

My koloboks are done pixel by pixel in close-up, then reducing them down to 100% again to examine them anxiously (to see if what worked in zoom works in the correct size), zooming in because almost always it does NOT look the way I want it to, and so on. It can be frustrating when the little kolobok or its accoutrements look muddy or unclear at 100%, and I have to play around with the colours or amount of detail or any of a number of factors.

With the card koloboks, I have a grey shadow line (single pixel border, #DBDBDB) and rounded edges on the right and lower sides of the cards, to give the definition that I hoped would be just enough to stop the cards from disappearing against light backgrounds. I think it works, but if it turns out not to, I would reluctantly change it. (I wanted just that subtle definition!)

Thank you re the boy and girl kolobok with slings. (I used the memory of my own arm in a sling as the mental model.)

Re the Laughing Clowns - oh rats. I think you may be right. Another person has insisted that the neck movement doesn't go far enough, even though I tried to base my kolobok version on this video (especially from 16 seconds in). I am going to increase the movement to 180°. Thanks for the honest feedback!

[Almirena]

Sleeping Beauty's bed with roses... trying to see if it works...




This post has been edited by Almirena: Aug 17 2019, 06:00 PM

[Almirena]

Sometimes those little koloboks feel the spirit of adventure take hold of them. They want to go off into the wide blue yonder, seeking out thrills and excitement.

I couldn't resist answering the kolobok's call for adventure, and gave this kolobok a jetpack.

[Reny]

Sleeping Beauty has got a new bed, it is so pretty.

Sometimes those little koloboks feel the spirit of adventure take hold of them. They want to go off into the wide blue yonder, seeking out thrills and excitement.

I couldn't resist answering the kolobok's call for adventure, and gave this kolobok a jetpack.

Awesome animation and a very nice idea, Almirena

[Almirena]

And now... another kolobok idea which I'd been thinking about for a while... a girl kolobok jumping out of a cake.



This post has been edited by Almirena: Aug 18 2019, 09:37 PM

[Reny]

Very cute ....now I miss a boy, jumping out of a cake?

[Almirena]

I am sure that the boy version of the cake-jumper can be arranged...

[BradLee]

I'm very conscious of not being a gifted artist and having had to learn kolobok-making from scratch by examining other people's koloboks in detail, sometimes frame by frame.

Well you are doing a fantastic job for someone who is not trained!

[Almirena]

Thank you, BradLee.




How often do koloboks need to eat? In case they're feeling hungry, here is a kolobok heating up his lasagne in the microwave.




(I haven't attended to the cake-jumping boy kolobok yet...)

[Almirena]

Kolobok boy jumping out of cake: