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Pixiv Ugoira-to-WebM conversion.
Lossy GIF versions available at DeviantArt (27MB) and FA (10MB) sources. (More dithering with some color information lost.)
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I think I've got it figured out. The blue light turned Misty into a blue pokemon and now the yellow light has turned Serena into a yellow pokemon. Or maybe that's just a total coincidence.

The choice that won the May Patreon vote was submitted by nfreak and was to take this scene from season 17 episode 19 of pokemon and rework it to have it showing Serena becoming a Braixen. Where most of the effort was spent on was both editing the original Serena out of every frame of the latter part of the animation as well as trying to replicate all that lighting effects onto the new animation. The practice was certainly worth doing though it's one of those cases where the only way I'd know I did it right was if noone even noticed I did anything there. Still I'm sure that practice will come in handy in the future so thanks again to nfreak for suggesting the idea and to all my other patrons too including Lake, Ficfactor, Dean WInchester, javier, Anders Danielsen, Connor Cooney, bobby vasquez, Paw Larsen, Captain Kian, Dusk, lonakana, Dr. Beaubourg, KKD Silver, Shawn Cross, Zeidel, Jack Deebs, Shineofrain, Shane Akers, SeveredFand, deamonnet156, Zillo, Daniel Allmrodt, MangaReaderMan, and Asagiri.

And if you've got an idea you want to be voted on to be made into an animation you can submit it by joining my patreon too. https://www.patreon.com/Mankor This friday I will be opening the submission box for more ideas.

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    chdgs

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    This is not a duplicate of post #2283911.

    Both are WebM, but this post is converted from a Pixiv "ugoira" animation format, whereas post #2283911 was converted from the 27MB DeviantArt source GIF to circumvent e621's size limit for that file type.

    The GIF conversion has dithering and some loss of color information.

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    EDIT: I personally think the GIF version also has merit to be posted for the sake of format variety, but since the GIF-to-WebM conversion at post #2283911 was deleted, reposting the FA source (10MB to meet e621 file size limit for GIFs) as a true GIF might be considered "posting deleted content".

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    Watsit

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    chdgs said:
    EDIT: I personally think the GIF version also has merit to be posted for the sake of format variety, but since the GIF-to-WebM conversion at post #2283911 was deleted, reposting the FA source (10MB to meet e621 file size limit for GIFs) as a true GIF might be considered "posting deleted content".

    Funny thing that, I originally tried to post the FA version, but I got an error about the image being malformed (it's been a while, I don't remember the exact message). I couldn't figure out how to "repair" it so that the site would accept it. Converting the gif to apng increased the size of both versions, with the larger DA one increasing from 28MB to 32MB, and the smaller FA one increasing from 9.9MB to 17MB (just under the limit, but pretty excessive). The webm conversion of the larger DA version came out the best.

    With the ugoira version now available, I'm curious if it would compress to apng better (with the flatter colors and subtler gradations) compared to the dithered gif, and get under the size limit without the webm compression. I don't know how to work with ugoira to try myself, though.

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    chdgs

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    watsit said:
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    With the ugoira version now available, I'm curious if it would compress to apng better (with the flatter colors and subtler gradations) compared to the dithered gif, and get under the size limit without the webm compression. I don't know how to work with ugoira to try myself, though.

    The Pixiv Toolkit Chrome extension can save Ugoira animations as animated-PNG. But that came out to a whopping 78MB.

    I'm not sure that's an ideal format for most Ugoira animations, as they are archives of JPGs displayed using HTML5; There are a fair amount of compression artifacts on the frames that will bloat the file size. (I am not sure if Ugoira frames come in other image formats.)

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