User blog:ComradeJ/New animation project!

Hi everyone! I decided to start a new project!

Ever since I saw Blue August's animations for things other than weapons (like his Viper animations), I've thought on the idea for a long time.

I've personally asked him how he did it, but he told me to crop the video (which blew my mind, because I never know you could crop videos!). I asked him to into further details, but he told me that he forgot how to crop the video. From then until now, I do not have the slightest idea how to do it. It bothered me so much because I don't want first person objects and crosshairs in my animations.

One day when I was cropping photos for the wiki, I got bored of cropping photos from Mircosoft Paint; I decided to use Photoshop instead. After teaching myself how to crop photos through tutorials from sources, I finally learned how to use the crop tool. Then, I closed Photoshop and opened it again to see if I remember how to utilize the crop tool. Normally I drag photos to the Photoshop window to work on. Instead of cropping the intended photo, I accidentally dragged a video to Photoshop. To my surprise, the "photo" I was working on had a timeline on the bottom. I was shocked that videos could be cropped! I finally knew Blue August's secret ;]

Alright, enough with my little side story! :P

I decided to experiment with my project today by playing on Combat Arms Europe (because Combat Arms North America's server was really bad). I played some Infected Ship and decided to record the installation items you can buy from the ship's main deck. As some of you may know, I uploaded 3 Rocket Turrets to the the article for a test drive. It looks great to me. What do you guys think? Let me know your opinions!

More to come,

ComradeJ, Queen of Explosives. (talk) 08:01, January 16, 2014 (UTC)

P.S. I will need some suggestions from you guys. What should I do next? What size do you prefer? How will the wiki decide where to put these animations? Should it be in a photo, gallery, or slideshow?