First piece (untouched)        Looped running in place        "Seamless" loop       chocobomog

 This is my on-going animation project which i have been working on since last spring.  It is a short 3 second clip of Chocobos dashing across the screen (originally seen in a cut scene in FFX).  I took the first animation piece and positioned the camera on each frame so that it followed the chocobo across the screen giving the appearance of the chocobo running in place and only the background moving. To finish it off I had to create a few frames of the chocobo's leg movement so that it would loop fluidly between the running motions since the original animation didn't have a full set of frames showing an entire running motion. But I wasn't happy with the final effect, you could still tell where the animation looped, as the back ground totally changed between the scenes and the other chocobos disappear and reappear. My next  project was to make it so the animation loops seamlessly, and to do so I had to physically place new backgrounds at in the last few frames so they would slide into the first frame without notice.  Then I had to place more running chocobos so they wouldn't just flat out disappear and reappear when the animation loops.  Finally with a free tweaks of color here and there I got a piece I was satisfied with. While  it still not totally seamless, it look alot better than the first one I made.  As soon as my "perfectionism gene" kicks in, I am sure I will work on the final animation some more to make it impossible to tell where the animation starts and stops.  Until then enjoy the fruits of my labor  ;)    On an interesting note, in order to create each new background I had to make a new frame. In the end my original 17 frame animation had become 154 frames in length. Of course those 154 frames were merged back into 17 to make it animate correctly, but at least you know I put some hard work into this piece.
     The most recent addition is my Signature animation.  I post under the name "chocobomog" in many different forums, so I created a signature that represents my name.  I added Mog the moogle (the white bear creature) riding the chocobo and then proceeded to animate him by moving his arms, legs, and wings in synch with the chocobo's movements.  This actually did not take too long, but removing the original background out of the chocobo was fairly hard.  I probably spent more hours working on the background removal than I did placing Mog the moogle on the chocobo.  Next, I changed the background color to match the forums I predominantly post in (Gamingforce), and since those forums rotate between two background colors I made the animation's background do the same.  Finally I placed my name (chocobomog) on the piece because I know how easily people steal other's work and call it their own. Sure I can't call this piece ALL my own since I didn't draw the chocobo or the moogle, but I did put ALOT of work into editing an animation so that it does not even resemble the original.