Animated Christmas Card

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2008-12-20 08:58:16 by Tim C

My sister Gunilla sent me this christmas card, its so cute and funny!

i wanna make a very nice card for my fiance who is so far from me now. i wanna make him happy... can you suggest an easy way for me to do this?

Just check out anigreetings.com. Its ecards are actually 3d animated short films and your personalization goes into the animation, as opposed to traditional ecards where your message is shown separately from the context (animation or still image) of the ecard. It's great for those who are looking for serious alternatives as their ecards can be downloaded (with your message within) & played in Quicktime, Media Player & the like.

Another cool thing it has is that u can upload an image of your drawing or calligraph (i.e. in black over a bright white background) and it'll blend your drawing with your typed message nicely into the animation. In other words u can customize the animation entirely with a scan or photo of your handwriting. There're some tricks though: You must make sure the background of the image is truely bright white, as it's likely that the background isn't white enough for image captured by your scanner or digital camera even though you write on a white paper.

To do so, u must feed the image into a photo editor (I personally use the free GIMP), enhance the contrast of the image until the background becomes bright white and save it. Then upload the manipulated version. You'll probably need to preview the customization, fine tune & re-upload your image several times until you find it satisfactory. It sounds a bit complicated. But it's worth a try especially you're doing it for one of your most important persons in life. I'm sure he'll be very impressed when he sees your organic handwritten greeting message in an animation. Both you & him can save the animation & keep your hard work. Think about it.

But if this handwriting idea is too much for u. I think even the normal "typewriting" version should be enough to impress him...

Hope it helps.

2006-12-15 06:16:35 by sos1

Price: $3.95

some animated flash maybe or special card
not the normal gif ones
thanks for any help

try bluemountain.com

2007-12-17 00:26:12 by Legolas

Price: $4.88

christmas 2005 i had a christmas card sent to me via email and if you clicked on certain places it would start snowing, light up a christmas tree, and make smoke come out of the chimney. does anyone know where I can find this christmas card?
the card its self had a country cottage on it. i also believe there was a wreath on the door.

You can find it here: http://www.jacquielawson.com

2007-12-16 16:22:22 by *baby*girl*

This is my favourite website, its got loads of animated christmas cards. Hope this helps.

2006-10-20 03:04:27 by margaret w