The Christmas season is officially opened, now that Tinkerbell has light the star atop the tree.
The burst of pixie dust was done with the GIF-X 2.0 plug-in in GA5. The star atop the tree is a Bezier path object drawn in PI12; the pixie wings are spline objects drawn in PI12. These were imported into a 3D program and the frames rendered out; the animation was compiled in GA5.
1.42 Mb GIF animation
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/ ... 1452Kb.gif
I improved the sharpness of the pixie dust by using greyscale output from GIF-X 2.0 / GA5 and only adding color once it had been imported into the 3D program.
1.55 Mb PNG desktop background still image
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/ ... t1600P.png