...but subtlety's still evading me. Fonts in particular seem to be troubling me, with the font of #1 huge and clumsy and that in 4 hard to read and chunky (maybe my anti-aliasing was off?).
#4 also needs to have its colour balance adjusted, their skin tones are too pink. The problem here was that I hadn't yet realized that pasted frames into a new IR graphic create a much smaller animation than simply using one of the extant frames, and so was reducing the gif colours to 32, with the result that the frames are chunky and look terrible.
We see, however, improvement with stroke in 2, 3 and 5. #6 shows good layer effects but the flashy tween issue is still there. These are from early autumn.
1, 2, 3: Inuyasha
4: Babylon 5
5. miscellaneous cat
6. title art for my fanfic, Pierce the Darkness
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