Reblogs and spam

My job completely screwed us over. We were originally slated to close permanently on Dec. 7th, but today they changed their mind and are now closing us Nov. 9th. I still haven’t secured a new job yet (I have two interviews in review ATM) and severance doesn’t seem to be guaranteed due to bankruptcy. I only got enough to survive a month before I’ll likely be homeless unless I secure a job right way.

I hate doing things like this but if you know anyone else hiring in the 757 area code (Norfolk, VA specifically) or if you want to support some of my stuff, feel free to check out my links or reblog:

https://www.paypal.me/Marquis757

https://www.patreon.com/RageM

Some readers of Supper Mario Broth may know that I have, since 2017, posted updates regarding my search for “Big Yoshi”, an extremely rare render of a Yoshi character from Super Mario RPG that has been lost in its original form and can only be found in select print publications.

The image above is the clearest scan of the Yoshi in question that currently exists, made by twitter.com user “MDragmire”. If you wish to find out more about my long search for “Big Yoshi”, you are welcome to read this in-depth article on it that I have published on the Supper Mario Broth Patreon:

The Search for “Big Yoshi”

Note that no subscription is required to read the article; it is publicly viewable.

I would like to thank all readers who have joined me in this investigation - and I hope that one day, the final goal of obtaining the original lossless .png file distributed by the development team will be reached.

Here’s a photoshop script I made to assist with animated Content Aware scaling.

http://neilcic.com/Animated%20Content%20Aware%20Scale.zip

Unzip it into Photoshop’s script folder (mine is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\Presets\Scripts, probably varies depending on version/OS.)

Open photoshop, then open an animated GIF, import a video, or take a still image in duplicate its layer a bunch of times— essentially, you need to have the frames as separate layers, starting from the bottom.

Click on File | Scripts, and “Animated Content Aware Scale” should be there. If not, you put the file in the wrong folder, but you can click “Browse” and find it manually.

This sexy options box will pop up. Basically, you can tween the drastic-ness of the scaling between the beginning and the ending of the clip. Smaller heights and widths generally make people look crunched and big-eyed. Bigger ones generally make people look pencil-headed and small-eyed.

Play around with these numbers for some weird effects, but be wary that extreme scaling can take a while to process (so don’t, say, put all four sliders all the way down to 1 on a 100-frame, hi-def animation. That will look terrible anyway.)

The “algorithm” option has three methods of scaling. The first two methods are similar, but can both result in really pixelated images depending on whether you’re scaling up or scaling down. The third method, “C.A Scale -> C.A Scale”, essentially content-aware-scales each frame twice, and thus takes longer, and has more unpredictable results.

After you click “Run” and it finishes processing, your finished product will be converted into a frame animation, so you can just hit space and watch it play, or export it as a GIF, or render it as a video, or delete it forever because it’s horrifying.

Note: If you have a lot of frames, your Undo History probably won’t go back far enough to undo the whole operation, so save first if it’s something you care about.