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Submitted: February 25, 2010
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Escape Podby `Ravenswd

Customization / Emoticons / Chat Friendly Emotes

This is my entry for

's EMTContest. [link] The theme is sparkles.

When *Mirz123 and I were working on her entry for this contest, we were originally going to have the stars twinkling. I couldn't get the effect to work quickly enough so Mirz took it in another direction. The results can be seen here: [link]

I was determined to finish the effect, and Mirz said I should work it into a different deviation and submit it to the contest. My original idea was to have an emote on a raft lost at sea. After seeing the final rendering of the starry sky, it looked more like space, so I decided to go with the same theme, but have an emote in an escape pod, drifting in space. He's enjoying the view while he waits for the rescue ship.

Credit to

for the emote base and help with the ship. She pretty much coached me on how to pixel / dither the whole thing.

Note to IE users: There appears to be a "skip" in the animation. This is not a problem with the graphic, but an issue with the way IE handles large animated gifs. If you use Firefox, you shouldn't have any problem.

UPDATE: I won second place in the contest.

SECOND UPDATE: I'm honored and excited that this piece received a Daily Deviation. I'd like to thank *Mirz123 and =SparklyDest for recommending it (and anyone else who did, those are the only two I know of) and ^catluvr2 for featuring it. Also, a big thank-you to all of my watchers and people who've favorited it.

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Given 2010-03-07

Escape Pod by *Ravenswd is an amazing piece of animation. The background is simply stunning to look at. You can really get the sense of awe that the emote feels, as well as feeling its loneliness. Words by suggester. ( Suggested by `Mirz123 and Featured by `catluvr2 )

love 7 7

joy 3 3

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

fear 1 1

~~neutral 0 0~~

~thesunflake Dec 15, 2012

ii reallyy loveeee ittt

))

`Ravenswd Dec 15, 2012

Thank-you!!

~RecordedHarmony Sep 14, 2012

This is a very awesome picture indeed.

Interestingly, the weirdest thing about this picture would not be obvious to anybody but a space geek: stars don't really "twinkle" in space. They appear to twinkle on earth because of the atmoshphere. Also, a lot of twinkling stars at night could mean a front is on it's way through, or that storms/rain is coming.

But overall, a well designed piece by you two.

`Ravenswd Oct 6, 2012

Thank-you! I knew that about stars not twinkling in space, but from the ground they don't appear to twinkle for me anyway, so I always thought of twinkling as just an artistic convention rather than something stars actually did.