Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

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On a Saturday night.

this is gonna be the scene in the gif network where jesse eisenberg is drinking beers and writing blog entries about how he shut down tumbler WITH ITS OWN ERROR MESSAGE AND A FUCKING DINOSAUR

i always figured when you hit it would be hipster puppies all over again

nah, it's not really working well because like grady said upthread, on tumblr it's all about getting a ton of followers, and even on these freak incidents where something sorta halfway blows up, i only get maybe 5-10 new followers. when something does get popular for a day or two, it's just because stonerparty or someone like that reblogs it, and then everything after that is just traffic coming from there. every once in a while some sad suckah will accidentally wander my way and click the "follow" button, but not many.

u gotta find a way 2 MONETIZE this

Get a publishing deal for weirdo flip-book animations

ZS I propose you keep your art pure and instead license your bag of animated gif tricks to me to produce ZS POWER TOOLS. You can be the Greg Sage of animated gifs.

I'm crashing your thread for a sec, Zzzs:

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beeps!!

beep beeps, actually

She's come a long way from libcrypt's collage.

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yr goth ones are getting quite good.

lol @ driving cat's eyes

it's his first time driving, he's a lil nervous

z_s' new book: z_s' publishing debut: an american .gif hero for our times

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or
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How many frames do these average? I"m impressed by how the little "tetris" bars seem to be going so much faster than the bird boots.

the one with the grid has 10 frames. In that one, there are 10 separate bird frames, and only 4 different sidewalk flower frames (which doesn't line up, of course, so I ended up having to kind of fib with the sidewalk in the final two frames, hopefully unnoticeably)

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I love the lil mouth movement

not that anyone will notice, probably, but I'm taking the Barry Lutz website down, which means that that the images in roughly the middle 1/3 of this thread will be broken soon (the first 1/3 were on tinypic, the middle 1/3 on barrylutz, most recent 1/3 on tumblr). "I THOUGHT THAT BARRYLUTZ.COM WOULD LIVE FOREVER. I MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE."

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just got my first ever tablet, totally pumped!

Whoa, the results are crazy and amazing!

yeah, it's just a loop of 4 different tracings of a photo, but it came out ok!

First 30 minutes with tablet = fuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
after that = much better

^basically me learning how to do anything new on a computer. just change "30 minutes" to "4 hours"

wow! that looks great

zs could you do something cool with homie in the red shirt at 0:12 in this?

http://www.youtube.com/v/t3fNauvrAZQ&fs=1&hl=en

I can try, sure! but probably it'll be tomorrow.

I love those little walking birds so much.

thanks! and yeah all of this new stuff is amazing

I am p impressed that you made a plausible walking walk for a bird with no knees!

thanks, but tbh I always have trouble with the walking animation. I've tried several times, and for some reason I can only end up with a limping jog. Like this one I did a year or two ago, same deal:

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dude got skills

Richard Williams says a quality walk is the heart of animation. Have you ever read The Animator's Survival Kit?

HOw is it for you to not look down and see what you're drawing?

Have you ever read The Animator's Survival Kit?

I haven't! *googles*

HOw is it for you to not look down and see what you're drawing?

you mean with drawing on the tablet and the results showing up directly on the screen? it was kinda tough to get used to, but I bet it was a lot easier for me than real artists because I very rarely draw on a piece of paper. I'm almost always using a computer.

Yeah that.

The Animator's Survival Kit?

wow, 74 pages covering "the walk"! this looks awesome

xpost I think the most difficult part, so far, is in stopping a line, raising the stylus, and then trying to resume the line. sometimes it takes a few tries to make the connection look halfway smooth. though, again, since I suck at drawing in real life, that's a problem I have with pen and paper anyway

have you tried this animation software?
http://www.plasticanimationpaper.dk/

i'd like to say it has made me into the next mike judge but uh... it hasn't
i think you'll have better luck, though.

I took a look at it just now and might give it in a download soon. The last few things I've downloaded, though, have been epic disasters for me. Not necessarily because they weren't useful, but because I immediately gave up and opened up Photoshop as soon as I was confused by something. my willpower = -43

Meanwhile, I posted this the other day and for some reason this is more popular than creepy cats:

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also reagantron:

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YOu can't really publish a book of gifs, so I'm just going to set back and wait for your eventual Adult Swim deal.

I wonder if you can make a "book of gifs" in iBook format or whatever . . . this stuff would look great on the iPad

or maybe u cld just make a blog of all these animated gifs so everyone could see them, just an idea

live rich on your blogz, son.

lol gr8080

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