sega-animation-generator

Spoof the SEGA 'glint' animation using a custom logo. Based on this video.

sega-animation-generator generates a text logo of your choosing, then animates the familiar glint and fade-in effect of classic SEGA game intros.

Customizable parameters:

• text
• font, font size and color
• glint and fade-in animation speed

How to run

The tool depends on ImageMagick and make.

Run:

make

to generate the animation.

Alternatively, run:

make logo.png

to generate just the logo.

Yu can also substitute any other image for logo.png and run:

make frames.png

Customization

Customize the values:

• TEXT
• FONT
• POINT_SIZE
• COLOR
• ANIMATION_GLINT_FRAME_COUNT
• ANIMATION_FADEIN_FRAME_COUNT

in the Makefile.

Ideas for future development

If you watch the video closely, during the glint and fadein the logo color shifts into cyan. This is yet unsupported.

The glint doesn't start from the edge of an image. This could be fixed by modifying the -geometry switch in ImageMagick.

Author

Igor Sowinski <igor@sowinski.blue>

Attributions

ImageMagick - https://imagemagick.org

SEGA font - https://www.dafont.com/sega.font

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2019 Igor Sowinski. Licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.