Leaderhead: Lenin

[Drift]

Lenin animated leaderhead


Download (2.9MB)

He is both animated and era specific. Package includes all files, like the victory screens, foreign advisor screen bubblehead and civilopedia pictures.

Preview of different eras and moods:

Animation preview:

How to install?

Either use as a scenario

• Unzip into Civ3\Conquests\Scenarios\
  Load "Lenin.biq" from Civ-Content

OR

Back up and replace Catherine's files

• List of files you need to back up:
  
  Civ3\Art\Advisors\CA_all.pcx
  Civ3\Art\Civilopedia\Icons\Races\russiansLARGE.pcx
  Civ3\Art\Civilopedia\Icons\Races\russiansSMALL.pcx
  Civ3\Art\Flics\CA_*.flc (8 files)
  Civ3\Art\Leaderheads\CA*.pcx (10 files)

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First version is now finished and I think I'll take a small brake now. My last edit doubled the size of medieval and ancient flics, so there's obviously a glitch somewhere. However, they work fine in game and I want to put this project to rest for a while and focus on christmas preparations. Expect an update sometime after christmas.

In addition to polishing his looks, I'm going to consider adding:
- more distinct happy mood
- blinking (tried it quickly and it looked horrible)

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

This looks great, Drift. Consider Catherine dropped!!

I have tried to do what you do with minimal success; I've edited leaderheads in Paint Shop Pro 7, and they look ok, but when I try to add some animation with Animation Shop Pro, I can't get it to look any good. Perhaps you could drop some hints and tips about this in the appropriate forum?

 

[Yoda Power]

Very nice

 

[Revolutionary]

impressive

 

[Drift]

Thanks everyone.

Originally posted by R8XFT
This looks great, Drift. Consider Catherine dropped!!

I have tried to do what you do with minimal success; I've edited leaderheads in Paint Shop Pro 7, and they look ok, but when I try to add some animation with Animation Shop Pro, I can't get it to look any good. Perhaps you could drop some hints and tips about this in the appropriate forum?

If I have time, I'll write a small tutorial on the inner mechanics of leaderheads and the steps I take when making them. I could've used one when I started doing the Kekkonen leaderhead and did many things the hard way.

But the animation process I use is really simple. I use Animation Shop 3.

I start with the Animation Wizard. Here are the values:
- Width 200, Height 240
- Transparent
- Upper left corner
- With the canvas color
- Play it 1 times
- Each frame is displayed 7

Then add happy image and neutral image.

You should have a 2 frame animation. Click the happy frame and choose "Insert Image transition" under Effects.
- Transition length 10.0 secs
- Frames per second 6 fps
- Effect: Fade

Now you should have a 62 frame animation from happy to neutral. Delete frame 61. (that's the one I use, but you have a free choice. One frame has to be deleted in order for the animation to fit in the 121 frame limit)

Insert angry image after the last frame (now 61). Click the last neutral frame before angry one and do the image transition again.

Again you need to delete one frame, I use frame 62, but it doesn't really matter that much.

Now you have a 121 frame animation, but the frame delays are not correct. Select all frames and choose Frame properties. Choose the 7 for frame display time and your forwards animation is finished.

Scroll through the animation one more time - do all frames have delay of 7, is the animation in right order - happy-neutral-angry....

Save as .flc and do the backwards flic by simply selecting all frames and choosing "Reverse frames".

Most crucial thing is really the happy, neutral and angry images. The differences can't be drastic, because Animation Shop morphs the two pictures - big differences mean ghost images in the middle of animation.

 

[Gogf]

It looks good . Once I get a chance, I'm dropping Catherine.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Cheers for the tips. I've been trying fade with some success, but will try to lessen the differences, as you suggested.

 

[swan]

I ask to change the background beside Lenin modern, on any another.
Since consider this insult for russian christianity.
Lenin on background of temple of Christos Rescuer this as minimum a blasphemy.
Because of Lenin and Stalin in 1918-1950 there were are robbed and destroyed nearly all churches in Russia

But in general it was got much better, than beside Spartacus. More Similar

 

[Mobilize]

Good leaderhead but I prefer Spartakus' because the Industrial Era (my fav era in the game) version of his Lenin is incredible, the attire he is wearing is pretty cool-looking and the Soviet flag in the background is awesome. The rest of them are kind of blah so your's is better than his 3/4th of the time. If only there was your Lenin's head on his Industrial Era, it would be perfect.

Still yours is great. Looks way way more like Lenin. Great detail.

 

[Drift]

@swan

I'm sorry, never thought of it that way - just leafed through images from Moscow looking for a background. I'm too busy at the moment to replace the background.

@Mobilize

I personally stayed away from the military clothing as, like it was noted in the Spartakus' preview thread, Lenin wasn't a soldier, but a politician. I agree though that it looks good.

 

[mutante]

This is nice. But Lenin wasn´t orange hair?

 

[Straczynski]

There was no orange hair dying back in 1917...

 

[TopGun]

He looks most like Lenin in the "annoyed"/"angry" mode... guess the historic Lenin never smiled, eh?

 

[joncha]

Actually, Lenin's hair was red (or at least reddish) and there are lots of photos of him smiling.

jon.

 

[Lenin_Ulyanov]

I've always wanted a lenin leaderhead, so im going with this one, but could someone tellme where spartakus' is, i would like to compare them

 

[Drift]

@Lenin_Ulyanov

Here ya go:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=72819

Spartakus' Lenin has higher graphical quality as it's based on pictures of a 3d model, but IMHO the ghost images shown during transitions between emotions are its downfall.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Catherine is still dropped in favour of this leaderhead .

It was Drift's Lenin and Kekkonen that originally inspired me to make leaderheads and I think this is a GREAT Lenin .

 

[Drift]

Thanks R8XFT. Considering what you've become with leaderheads, I'm really happy my humble creations sparked something so great.

I am quite happy with this one myself as well. I actually like these 2d-leaderheads of mine more than the few crude 3d leaderheads I've made - they feel more personal as they are so strongly my own creation. I never got good enough with Poser to feel same kind of joy of creation as I felt with Kekkonen, Lenin and Ashurbanipal.

 

[odintheking]

How do you make these 2-D ones?

 

[Drift]

How do you make these 2-D ones?

I made them mostly by cutting pieces of Firaxis leaderheads and then editing them heavily in Paint Shop Pro. I've also made some of the props like Lenin's trenchcoat and Ashurbanipal's armor myself. When I had the moods and different era clothes done, I just compiled them in Animation Shop.