A Moment's Brilliance

Warning: Probably works best in Firefox and will more than likely run glitchy the first time through. I'd recommend looking elsewhere for a while and then coming back when it's done loading to your browser. If you are using Internet Explorer and it gets stuck on a frame, try right clicking on the image and selecting "loop" then "play".

I...well, I guess I just love chameleons (reptiles and amphibians are very dear to my heart) and I made this sometime over the summer to act as a header image/banner for something of mine.

This is, in total, 50 frames, and the animation lasts somewhere around 13 seconds total but is set to loop. The number of layers required to pull this off was absurd, at least a hundred and I'm not going to count.

The chameleon does not exist. I made it up. The body type I based off a Parson's chameleon, while the colors I made up based off of the myriad color patterns you may see in especially vivid Panther chameleons.

I want to later animate his eye to move the way a chameleon's would.

...the parts of the foreground leaves near the edges of the image got cut off somehow, and I only just noticed and will just...fix that when I do the eye.

Images and animation copyright © Kate N.Y. *dreor