Editing Forum:Magic Animations

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{{DTN|time=22:27, 9 June 2011 (EDT)|text=Upon realizing just how long "Magic Articles" has been the Cleanup of the Month for the wiki, I decided to take a look on these basic spell articles to see what the issue is. It seems like the biggest issue is simply that most of the articles do not have .gif animations of the spells being used, and instead have almost useless screenshots of the spell in the middle of casting. Since there are several users capable of making animations from gameplay videos and content, it is vital that the spells be animated soon, so that we can move on to featuring something else in that glorious box on the front page's right column.

[[Aero]] is currently the best magic article we have image-wise. All of its spell images are animated .gif's, whic is perfect as far as images go. Some of the articles have some .gif animations, but not all of them. I am asking those users with the ability to animate to please create these spell animations as quickly as possible. Though ideal, it is not required to have images for each version of a spell from each game. For each game, only one animation of any version of the spell (base, -ara, or -aga) is necessary. If possible, we may be able to put addition animations in an off-article gallery in the Galleryspace. Thank you so very, very much.
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;<s>[[Fire]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts II''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''</s>

;<s>[[Blizzard]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts II''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''</s>

;<s>[[Thunder]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts II''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''</s>

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;<s>[[Cure]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts II''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''</s>

;<s>[[Aero]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''</s>

;<s>[[Gravity]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''</s>

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;<s>[[Stop]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''</s>

;<s>[[Magnet]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts II''</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''</s>

;<s>[[Reflect]]</s>
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''</s> (Barrier)
*<s>''Kingdom Hearts II''</s>
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:There is supposed to be a really awesome, column-divided listing of what animations are needed for each spell article under that silver line in my talk template, but it refuses to appear. Could someone take a look at that? --{{User:DoorToNothing/Sig}} 22:27, 9 June 2011 (EDT)
:I would prefer the -ga forms from all games, except for Days, which probably needs all three.{{User:KrytenKoro/Sig}} 22:40, 9 June 2011 (EDT)
::Your talkbox template isn't allowing the coding for the list to show up properly. [[User:Auror Andrachome|Auror. plus the great Andrachome]] 22:31, 9 June 2011 (EDT)
{{LA|Vtext=I'm cool with helping out, as I have the ability to make the animated abilities images. However, I'll need a video of the spell being used ''in game'', so if youtube videos containing good examples of the spell being used could be found/linked, that would help enormously.}}
:I also made a [[:Template:MagicCleanup|big ol' obnoxious template]]. I was a little generous with the size and all since the leads on the Magic articles are very small, and then a large Table of Contents takes over the rest of the page length initially. --{{User:DoorToNothing/Sig}} 01:14, 10 June 2011 (EDT)
{{Xion4ever|time=08:58, 10 June 2011 (EDT)|talktext=While I cannot create .gif images, I most certainly will post any video links I find to help you all out. Quick question: Would Re:Chain of Memories videos be alright instead of Chain of Memories? My reason for asking: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIaxGOgl5FM click] This guy only uses fire sleights the whole time, meaning plenty of material to work with. Regardless of the answer, I will post any and all videos I find here below. EDIT 09:12, 10 June 2011 (EDT) : Erry can get these from in game. >_< Fail on my part.}}
While I'm not trying to disrespect your work, Erry, and I'm sure it's hard to get things perfect, but some of the clips you're uploading aren't particularly demonstrative, either because of bad camera angle or obstructions, so you can't see the magic being used, or because they're too short, making it very hard to glean information from them.  --{{User:Neumannz/SigTemplate}} 11:14, 10 June 2011 (EDT)
{{ErryTalk|time=11:25, 10 June 2011 (EDT)|edea=I know images such as TerraCuragaBbS, and TerraFiragaBbS.gif are not shot from a proper angle but once I am done uploading the images, as in all of them, I will perfect them later on... right now we will use what we can and upgrade later... I assume that is what we're doing}}
{{ErryTalk|time=15:00, 13 June 2011 (EDT)|eziotext=<big><big><big><big>ALL DONE!</big></big></big></big>}}
Weren't you going to do one for each level for KHD? Since they're not the same, and all?  --{{User:Neumannz/SigTemplate}} 17:41, 13 June 2011 (EDT)
I wasn't planning on since I just couldn't, I can make them but I don't think I will for '''at least''' a week. Because I've done so much work this week. {{User:Erry/Sig}} 18:10, 13 June 2011 (EDT)

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{{DTN|time=21:49, 5 July 2011 (EDT)|text=This is about magic animations, per say, but what is left to do on the Magic articles now? Are they done?}}