WARNING: LARGE ANIMATION FILE.

An animation I made back in 2010. Some of you have probably seen it before. I rendered it again recently, now that I have a more powerful computer and a more recent version of Photoshop, which means that I can make it more than 300 pixels wide. Unfortunately, I still can't get rid of the pixellated dithering effect. It seems to be a GIF thing.

This took just over a month in Photoshop. I started with thirteen pencil sketches of different creatures, scanned them, "inked" them with the brush tool, and proceeded to draw progressively closer transitional stages until the lines started to blur together. The frame rate is lower than I'd like, but with thirteen different forms to switch between, it was either that or double the number of frames and go mad.

The creatures in here are, for the most part, no species in particular. The dog, cow and hyena are obvious; the bird looks a bit like a seagull. Other than that, your guess is as good as mine. I just drew things that appealed to me. The backgrounds were a last-minute addition and took maybe fifteen minutes altogether. I wanted something besides a blank white background, but I didn't want to distract from the foreground figures, hence the washed-out lens-flare semi-abstract look.

13 species, 52 frames, 156 Photoshop layers, 1.5 months of work. It was worth every second.

Comments and advice are, as always, appreciated. If you want me to do one of these for you, send me a message, and I'll consider it. (No more than three species, please; one transformation marathon was quite enough.)