I need some images created in a “cartoon” or “animated” style. They are not to be life-like, but drawings. This is for a student software project.
I need some images to be animations. Frame by frame PNG files. Either separate files in separate folders, or a single file with the frames spaced out so that they can be cropped in the program.
I need animated images of:
* A cute/fluffy baby seal shooting towards the screen as it would from a cannon. Either rolling in a ball, or flailing about. The perspective is to be from “far away” in the screen to “close” in the screen.
* Another of the same seal then going the other way from “close” to “far” as it would as hit by a bat.
* A front view of a cannon at the same “distance” into the screen as where the seal is to be shot from
* A cartoon explosion that will come from the cannon before the seal is shot from the cannon. It is just a few fast frames of a sharp pointy polygon with different colours like yellow/red/orange to show a very cartoony fireball/explosion
* An animation of a baby seal going splat… It doesnt need to be very gory, but it will be launched onto a gameboard and when it hits the flat board, then it will go splat into some blood and begin streaking down. Again not too gory, the blood can be red like normal or blue if that makes you feel better. 
* An animation of a club and/or baseball bat just moving back and forth a little bit like what players do when waiting for the ball to be thrown and then another animation of the bat swinging “into” the screen There should be 4 user player images holding the club/bat, so this will actually be 4 separate animations (8 including the back and forth and the actual swing). The players should be a penguin, polar bear, whale, and moose. The characters should be standing. So the moose, penguin and polar bear will stand on 2 legs and use their flippers/paws for the club/bat. The whale will balance on its tail and use its flippers for the club/bat. The player image should move a little bit with the bat/club moving back and forth. So it is not pervfectly still, sort of fidgeting.
* A gameboard. It should have spaces for 36 semi-3d looking tiles. Each tile should have a value 1-6 printed on it in a shiny/transparent way. They should glimmer/glisten a bit. The gameboard should be square and 6×6.
Overview of the game so you get a better idea of what animations are needed:
The user will move the player image with the club/bat around the bottom of the screen and the baby seals will be launched out of a cannon towards the player. The player will then need to time their swing to hit the seal so it flies towards the gameboard. Whichever tile the seal hits it goes splat. This will finally be used to calculate the dice score for a game of Yahtzee. It is a student project, and we are programmers not graphic artists. The clubbing baby seals is a large joke among the younger audience and even more so of a joke within our university. So we aren’t being violent for no reason, it is a senior project where the programmers want to have some fun with the class/professor!
Some examples of the animation style would be:
The penguins/polar bear (NOT seal): http://www.portraitsbyjessperna.com/images/Illos/Penguin_Cartoon.jpg
General Cartoon: http://scrumptious.animeblogger.net/images/season_preview/2007_fall/pururun_shizuku_chan.jpg
Penguin: http://adam.t.bull.googlepages.com/CARTOON_Penguin.jpg/CARTOON_Penguin-full.jpg
Love this penguin: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/illustrations-vectors/987151-penguins.php?id=987151
General Style: http://uploads.ungrounded.net/285000/285267_ultimateshowdown.swf
Notice the exaggerated black outlines that dont match all the way around. Sort of like purposely overlapping as if they were drawn sketch style, but not… So nothing fancy pants, but something along those lines. I am sure I will need to clarify more so send me a question if you need me to.
The overall feel should be ironic. Meaning if you notice the background how it is very happy and sunshine/rainbows, it will be the backdrop to a bit of gore. It should have a “Happy Tree Friends”-esque feel to it. http://api.ning.com/files/5u1wRMAd8mJZ*NAdavENOOklJ5ECSiKk3hjFSewLP0IOzdb3TG9UeMkxrhk9-MK*Dmuv1Em2r-tTliThttfIaDvRu*Lk6hJH/HappyTreeFriends.jpg
That image is a good example of the moose I am looking for too.
It is hard to explain what I am looking for, but if you have any examples of your drawing style that might help me to see what you are capable of. The images do NOT have to be original, you can reuse what you have or find, but the style needs to match and I need to use them in a school project so copyright must allow that.
The background for the program is this image (or something very similar): http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/concepts-and-ideas/time/2544072-happy-snowman.php?id=2544072
All files should be PNG for transparency purposes.
