To take the mystery out of it,it was just some multiplicative gradients multiplied by clouds with some invert in the text area, some blur, the source was this as a tiff to avoid jpeg artifacts.
Then run through www.zettix.com/anim-gif/
(Then run through www.zettix.com/anim-gif/
I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?,
Tue 4 Jan 2011, 5:40,
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