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Animated using Toonator.com

Toonator is the name of the English mirror for Multator.ru, a Russian animation community where users can draw, share, comment on, and even modify each other's animations all within the tools of the website. Their animation tool is simple, but easy enough to use.

Nearly all of the users on the site are Russian (since the English mirror wasn't created long ago), but there's an auto-translation system in place to convert their comments to English if you're logged in to Toonator. Likewise, your English comments will be converted to Russian on their side. As always, translations can be hilariously wrong, but are usually relatively understandable.

Since joining, the community there has been welcoming and appreciative of my little relaxation doodle animations regardless of the language barrier, so I encourage you to give it a try and help expand the English userbase. Even if you're not much of an animator, there are a lot of little animation meme-type things, where someone draws a template animation and everyone hits 'Continue' on it to add their own silly modifications.

This particular animation is from a contest that was held last week to create animations that celebrated the replacing of the old Multator server with a faster one. I tied for third place with a couple of other entries, so it was fun. The prize was some site currency (called 'spiders') which can be used to add music to your animations or to award medals to other users. You can also use it to save GIFs of your work, but I've just been going through and screen-capping each frame, since it doesn't take too long and spiders are hard to come by for an English user who can't easily buy them with rubles. You'll have to log in to your Toonator account through the Multator portal if you want to see your spider count or anything like that, though, since not all of the features have been translated yet.

If anyone out there gives it a try, let me know!
Here's a link to my profile there: [link]

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~stormmina Nov 9, 2011 Student Artisan Crafter

Can you please tell me how to upload something from there onto youtube or deviantart?

=kthxplz Nov 9, 2011 Professional Filmographer

Yep! The process is a bit of a pain in the neck for English-speaking users, since those on the Russian side of the site can use the Spider currency to purchase an animated gif of their animation. For those of us without Spiders, it's time to get creative!

My steps are:
1. Open the animation
2. Hit Print Screen on your keyboard
3. Paste your whole screen into Photoshop (or anything else that supports layers)
4. Drag the playhead of the animation forward one frame
5. Print Screen and paste as a new layer on top of the previous layer.
6. Repeat until you have a layer for every frame of the animation!
7. Create a selection box around the animation field on your top screenshot layer
8. Crop the document to that selection
9. At this point, I use Photoshop's animation feature to toggle through the visibility of the layers one at a time for each frame, but you could arguably save each layer out and compile them in any kind of gif-editing program. If they're named in sequence (1.png, 2.png, 3.png, etc), then you can use something like Quicktime to Open Image Sequence, then Export in order to get a format that you can upload to Youtube. Not sure if either of those features is limited to Quicktime Pro or if the standard player can do it too.

I hope some of that helps you along!

~stormmina Nov 9, 2011 Student Artisan Crafter

thank you

~SuperBrownMan Sep 20, 2011

Nice. This is perhaps the 1st time I actually checked back at this group. Not to be a pessimist, but most of the animations involve a couple of frames of hair movement (which kinda makes up anime lol) so I guess I shouldn't complain.

=kthxplz Sep 20, 2011 Professional Filmographer

Thanks! I hear ya, but at the same time, a lot of those animations are done by people without any formal training or much experience with the art form, so I'm not about to judge them for wanting to show off the fact they were adventurous and tried something new. Never know who's gonna take to it and become great.

~SuperBrownMan Sep 21, 2011

yeah, practice makes permanent lol.

~DayDawnDusk Sep 20, 2011 Student Traditional Artist

thats one of the best things ever

=kthxplz Sep 20, 2011 Professional Filmographer

I'm happy you feel that way! XD <3

~demann18 Sep 20, 2011 Student Filmographer

That looks cool. I would not know something this awesome could be done with an online program.

=kthxplz Sep 20, 2011 Professional Filmographer

Thankya. x] Their program is actually easier for me to use than most 2D animation software I've tried.

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