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August 5, 2010

Animated firefly by *DianePhotos. The suggester says, "I'm really fascinated by this work - it's quite simple, yet it seems amazingly surreal. It tells a story, - I can easily imagine the scene as one of the esential scenes in a fairytale, but it's very inspiring, too." Also suggested by ig0706.

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Animated firefly and Arkanys

DianePhotos

Published: Aug 3, 2010

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Description

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT RATS?
READ MY F.A.Q. (handling, care, behavior, etc...)

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WHY THIS ?

I needed something animated for my signature but it ended being too big... I'm also practising animation (this is my very first time animating something other than a blinky eye) for a music video project.

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TECHNICAL STUFF

Photoshop CS3
16 frames
Everything has been painted except for the rat which is one of my own photographs.

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MISCELLANEOUS

Previous versions can be seen here (sorry for spamming your watchbox guys) : [link] and there : [link] , here : [link] and also here : [link]

For the ones who'd be wondering, that's basically the way a butterfly moves : it's abdomen goes up as wings are flapping down, I watched some slow motion videos of butterflies today

And YES, I KNOW this isn't how a firefly is supposed to look but it sounded better than "fire-butterfly" to me (as written in the description of my original artwork linked above)

By the way, Arkanys is a RAT, not a mouse

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DOWNLOADS

Wallpaper available here : [link]
Original artwork here : [link]

©Diane Özdamar - 2010
DO NOT USE ANYWHERE WITHOUT MY WRITTEN PERMISSION

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EDIT : whoa, a DD?

Seriously guys, I would have never imagined this animation would be so appreciated, thank you so much!

Thank you very much and for suggesting it and for featuring it

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500x500px 285.78 KB

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PixelDepictions

Oct 4, 2010

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I love this animation so much. It's very original, and isnt some casual thing you see on DeviantArt every day. I love how the rat is staring at the firefly in some sort of amazement. I love how you understood light, and made it shine in the rat's eyes. That's cool, most wouldn't remember to do that!
-knuckletouch-

Yet the staring of the rat is a tad bit awkward. He/she has no movement whatsoever, which makes it look as if its a purchased house decoration. The firefly just flails its wings in the exact same position over and over, which isn't terrible for a small animation like this one, but it could've had just a few more frames.

The only other thing I must add is, at one point, the wing flapping looks like you skipped a frame. I'm not smart enough to know the exact frame, but its not tbat big of a deal anyways. I guess I can say its when the wing is spread out, and not in front of the rat... Just watch closely and you should see the part I'm talking about <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/let…" width="15" height="15" alt="

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Nevertheless, I adore this animation! Keep it up! <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/d/d…" width="21" height="15" alt="

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