I LOVE VLAD. (Looking for the knitted version? It’s here!)

Hint 1: mohair hides everything!
Hint 2: if you outline the wing with the robe/bat color you can hide all your ends!

I know you ALL want to know about how to make an animated .gif. I tried 3 programs:

1. GIF Construction Kit Professional - weird resolution changes, not obvious how to use it
2. GifApp - easy, but weird timing at end of loop and start of next loop
3. Photoscape - easy peasy awesomeness! and it seems to do so much more!

Crop your photos to a square (I did 2” x 2”, 300dpi) so they can fit into a Rav thumbnail. Also, make sure your brightness/contrast is similar for each picture. I have 12 pictures (for the loop) and a file size of 1.3 megs.

I couldn’t get it to upload through Flickr, as far as I can tell, the best way is to pay for the ‘upload to your computer’ Rav option, which come on, is TOTALLY worth the lifetime cost of 5 bucks.