#blinkies.cafe

[roycekeaner]

cat and dog therian / kin blinkies :P

there were all made using blinkies.cafe

[habitsbf]

slenderverse blinkies for ur profiles ‼️‼️‼️ 🐇

[webthingiesformetouse]

[markerbirthday]

Will Wood related blinkies I made using blinkies.cafe ! Free to use, no credit to me required :)

[breath-of-fresh-grantaire]

[glittergroovy]

[gillionslimestrider]

some blinkies i've made lately! feel free to use lol

[sabreurs]

blinkies i made using blinkies.cafe!

[ID: 1) "i'm always right" with an angel emoji. 2) "tragedy enjoyer" with sparkling and floating hearts. this is mostly red and black. 3) "i block people for misusing the term "unreliable narrator" between two caution symbols.

4) "fuck off <3" written on the aromantic flag. 5) kirby walking in place labeled "small-town blogger." 6) "doomed yuri" written on a rainbow background.

7) "abortion" featuring two floating pills. 8) "there is no heterosexual explanation" written on the asexual flag. 9) "i [heart] tragedy" with a beating heart. this is mostly black and white.

10) "add id's to your images" written next to a guy punching the floor. 11) "slow responses" written next to a blinking snail. 12) "let's go lesbians" written on the lesbian flag.

13) "the oxford comma" surrounded by multicolored flames. 14) a pink pixel wheelchair and heart along with the words "Ki Catalyst 4." 15) a small gif of a cat crying labled "need attention...."

16) "soft, like the sunset" written on a gradient red-orange background. 17) "dyslexic" written in a quirky font with two diagonal/squiggly mouth emojis. 18) a pirate skull-and-crossbones flag with "i ain't paying for another subscription" written next to it.

19) "doomed yuri" written on a starry sky background. 20) a brown blinkie with a mug and "coffee and tea drinker" written next to it. 21) a ufo on a black background with "i'll kill us both" written next to it.

22) "can't stop what's coming" written next to two caution symbols. 23) a pokeball next to "will you be my rival?" 24) black and neon green blinkie that reads: "people underestimate rocks."

25) vampire fangs dripping blog next to the text: "my daughter is my sister is my throw pillow." 26) a frog and lily pad with the text "will you sit on a lilypad with me?" written between them. 27) "whatever pronouns make you the most uncomfortable" written on the trans flag.

28) "i doth yap" written next to finfin icon. finfin is half-dolphin half-bird. 29) sparkling orange "mass like/reblog is ok." 30) a a blinking computer with the text "queue feature with no tag" next to it. end ID.]

[pixelsgarage]

What is your creation process? :3c

hey, thanks for the inquiry! i've been meaning to make a post like this for some time now. NOTE: this will only cover how i make my blinkies. if you want me to go in depth about how i make stamps, please send another ask! i just think they're kind of self explanatory in comparison >_>

MY BLINKIE MAKING PROCESS

for this demonstration, i will make this graphic of Acht Mizuta from Splatoon 3. it's free to use btw:

i make my graphics in Krita, which is great for editing pixel art, but does not have an option to disable font antialiasing. this leads me to generate my pixel text through external online services, but i usually generate it on blinkies.cafe and get an editable template to go along with it. my go-to is the simple purple template, since it has a simple palette and the text has its own color so i can put it in a separate layer easier.

i import it as a single frame that i will animate later. usually what i do first is cut+paste the inner content of the blinkie into a separate layer:

then i remove the background with a fill erase on the third mode, and move it around as i see fit. i put it in a separate layer before this so it's easier to color and add things like outlines.

let's import graphics! usually i find a transparent png and overlay it onto the background, but in this case i'm using a full background, so it needs to be prepared:

(source: splatoon 3 side order locker reward banner)

i import the image into a new file with the same resolution as the blinkie. i edit it to have a wider resolution so it fits better:

i use a lasso tool to put acht in a separate layer (so they stick out of the frame)

i import the two layers into the original file with the text. though i feel the images could use a little color grading...

at this point i begin to mess around with the layout a little, trying to match the original "sanitized" theme i had in mind. i also do color grading on the render of acht and change out the background. now we're getting somewhere! i also color the text at this point to be a nice gradient green.

let's color the outer part of the blinkie! i thought i would make the border a transparent black, with the lights being neon green and a dark magenta respectively.

i also want to make the text have a nice little border around it, so i put a stroke filter on the text layer with the following settings. these usually change depending on graphic but the thickness is always 1px (any more and it gets antialiasing)

that's it for designing the blinkie, now it's time to animate it! i do this internally in krita, since it has an animation feature:

i make a new frame for the animation and change the colors and positions around. i also set up my clip settings - ending at frame 1 (2 frames - frame 0 and frame 1) at 6fps.

that's pretty much it! the gif is ready to export, just make sure you export it in the right format and don't accidentally compress it or make it too big.

the gif is ready!! wahoo!! i hope this was somewhat enlightening, i'm not the best at explaining stuff but i tried to go in depth as much as i could

[tychos-huzband]

i made some Nigel and Marmalade themed blinkies! (all made in blinkies.cafe!)

[tanyakennedy1899]

made w/ blinkies.cafe

[trans-siffrin]

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[glittergroovy]

companion post of x

[barringtonishigh]

The Academy Is... blinkies i made using blinkies.cafe!!

also a couple random dcd ones

feel free to use <3 <3

[royce-ruffs]

'sfw interaction only' blinkies i've made using blinkies.cafe templates :P

[sillyblinks]