i'm fighting the urge to redo those anatomical gifs and make them a little smoother!
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
It's pretty amazing that they are still in use, and pretty much work no matter what OS or browser you use. Animated gifs even show up on smart phones, don't they? I feel like they'll be around until HTML itself starts going away.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
How do you do that rotating? Cos the only way I've found has been make a layer, duplicate it, rotate it 15 degrees, duplicate that, rotate it, etc. Is that really the only way in PS?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
i hope so!
although, i kind of hope that as bandwidth and processing power continues to improve, maybe a new enhanced format (ggiiff?) could be developed that allows for a few more colors. an inherent limitation of the .gif is that you can only use 256 colors. even if you make an animation that has a million colors in it in photoshop (which is easy to do, actually, if you're blending multiple images with a huge diversity of tones/hues over 20-30 frames), when you save it as a gif it reduces it down to 256 colors. and don't get me wrong, i love that limitation. it's what makes gifs gifs. but anyway, it might be cool if a new format was adopted on a wide scale that allowed for, say, 1024 colors.
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
pretty much. it takes a long, long time. in after effects you can do it much more quickly and efficiently. i'm stuck in my old photoshop ways, though.
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
one thing about rotations, though. and sorry if a) you already know this or b) this makes no sense, but:
depending on what you're working with, you don't need need to create a separate layer to rotate all the way around the circle. for example, take this one:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/763a2917eb8e64a6dbc3c49d2df1b7c2/tumblr_mjqbubeMeV1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
it's only 8 frames iirc. each tip of the star is only really moving 15 degrees or so through the course of the 8 frames. i.e., if you put a black mark on one of the tips, you'd see how it works. actually, i should just do that. hold on.
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
here we go:
http://i.imgur.com/DOP1aNs.gif
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
so, i didn't have to create layers to rotate the star ALL the around the circle, just enough to create the illusion that i did.
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
YES. Oh hell yeah, one of the benefits of using a symmetrical object! Yeah i don't think i've ever had luck making an animated gif w After Effects, tho it seems like it would be the ideal way to do it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
i really need to go back to that star and do something better with it. it looks really simple - 3 layers of stars, getting bigger and smaller, rotating - but each of those stars is actually 8 separate triangles, each of which has 8 copy layers that extend in or contract in. originally i was going to make the tips of the stars ripple around, but then i kept drinking and i got lazy and just made the entire star get bigger/smaller in unison. but all the components are still there! "goals"
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
I guess you could much about with html & css and layer transparent gifs. Dunno how well the browsers would blend them.
Out of curiosity, I gave it a shot... wooh, made my first gif animations ever, too! My god, I'm REALLY good at this! Or at least terrible. (I just wanted colors and movement, obv)Blended gifs (first two pics are separate animations, third is the two on top of one another, with 50% opacity on the topmost)But uhh, obviously this isn't pure giffiness, since it's two separate images + css is needed to get the thing to work.
― Øystein, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
that's really interesting! i wish i knew more about css/html
so the first two are gifs, and then the third is just using html/css (i'm terribly unknowledgeable about this, i'm probably saying something ridiculous) to lay them on top of each other?
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
That's right. I imagine one could do something more interesting with it with, I dunno, transparent gifs (or possibly white backgrounds), to get around that washed out look.
― Øystein, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
i think it would be neat to layer the gifs so that they weren't exactly aligned. like, if the rectangles below were actually gifs:
http://leetcode.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/overlap_rect2.gif
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen that kind of thing done elsewhere before and it can be amazing.
http://www.geoffreylillemon.com/ is basically my favorite thing ever - i wonder if he's using similar css tricks?
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
What the hell, I tried transparency & offset & change width. Updated the page here
― Øystein, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
very illuminating Zs
― If Boehner's boner ever had a boner for another boner (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
i adore geoffrey lillemon's site
― ogmor, Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/53cce1877b895386c27250d08a88cdba/tumblr_mjrwu6eWjh1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/47e3696738642e5d9b26449fcb764160/tumblr_mjrwswwstP1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/b1f9cd732fe18297860653a51f049091/tumblr_mjs5vwLnhw1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/b1f9cd732fe18297860653a51f049091/tumblr_mjs5vwLnhw1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/20b1a99330e167e60fed91716b23f6b5/tumblr_mjxurwlYjx1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/225a03ad0c86bac57d47020d1fdd6453/tumblr_mjxldsmalU1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
wow, great
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
latter two are from the super sad/freaky nat. geo doc on north korea
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
AHEMhttps://plus.google.com/+google/posts/F1YjHaT7ZUk
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
long story short:When you do a google image search, click on “Search tools” below the search box, then select "animated” under the “Any type” dropdown box. There's also a “Transparent” option under the “Any color” dropdown box for clean c+p jobs.
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
hey, cool!
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
i like how half of the comments in that thread are like "FUCK THAT, BRING BACK GOOGLE READER YOU JERKS"
yeah, people be pissed about losing google reader
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
everyone should be. its the one part of google other than email that i use all the time
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
I never got it. Can't you use Flipbook or something like that instead?
I don't get vine either. I'm well aware there's a whole world out there I don't get.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
This search by animation thing is pretty incredible.
http://www.watchingthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/image/googlereadersort.gif
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
is that flipbook?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
That's an animated gif search for Google Reader.
Flipboard. I meant flipboard.
http://flipboard.com/
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Found this.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/images/00034130.gif
"This stereograph of the Central Pacific Railroad would have appeared three-dimensional when viewed through special glasses."
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/ce8e3a8f78f2a8a02aa61f450a0822ca/tumblr_mk8qjtUEr01qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/785d076906675a39a32800a078f74493/tumblr_mkar10vTmM1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
this one took me forever and now i feel like a total weirdo tbh! http://25.media.tumblr.com/81e8fd625211f864df1939e989fa492c/tumblr_mkcbfelt6G1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
wildwhen they start making printable gifs you are so gonna make a billion
― Look, Brian, about the afro wig... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 March 2013 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
put them on an led t-shirt
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
if you guys invent an LED shirt that is under $75 i will gladly supply you with a bunch of gifs and take 10% of the profits
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
hey zs, could you take us into the mind of this cat?http://flvrd.com/static/p/happiest-sailor-cat-on-a-pile-of-fish.jpgi'm thinking of something like, zooming in on it's face, "into it's head", maybe a 2001 space oddissey light show transition to... idk, pure light?
― Sébastien, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Lol, that's a pretty great picture! I'll see if I can do it this weekend.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
woah i haven't been to this thread in months. ZS your skills are multiplying.
― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Friday, 5 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e021844e141fd18211322b511bd4558/tumblr_mkwc69HPVp1qdmmiqo1_400.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/a9345d8724c89491ebe785ae4059304e/tumblr_mkhpog5MEq1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/epEQQIk.gif
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 11 April 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
Postcard is fab! And is that Maru?
― ljubljana, Thursday, 11 April 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
thanks! yeah, i was pretty bummed because i had to reduce the quality of the top one so much to get it to fit onto tumblr (had to delete 2/3 of the frames - the hand used to wave the picture-in-picture all over the cityscape instead of just over the top part - and make everything look really lossy)
it is infinite Maru
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 11 April 2013 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
Here's how we had to animate gifs back when I was a kid in the 40s.http://i.imgur.com/0oFMWaY.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 11 April 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
no one can deny that life is better experienced while violently shaking one's head
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 11 April 2013 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
Those are so rad. <3 the MJ one
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 11 April 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Did y'all see this: http://www.nicolasritter.com/filter/photography/One
Kinda like fancy Cinemagram...
― schwantz, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/256015905cefe037ac2ebece04676fec/tumblr_ml5vbedDwz1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/6237a862ddadd3863a51f61959f9e60b/tumblr_mldl6rvLWU1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/c5549d9cc96a1c1dfb2e45cf51f33907/tumblr_mlu9hgwIzM1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/1247e2d19e61c6aed51770991c97b71c/tumblr_mlu9zksbSh1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/47dd9471157d740bb132fbf1984aa5fc/tumblr_mluacdSILa1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/3ae145969039db999ef4413b70b26524/tumblr_mlua2a2l9o1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/ce7a13c3d15ab33067af315b70c80f81/tumblr_mlua74mjh71qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 26 April 2013 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/91c69a87f1435a28d9c740cbfbdae04f/tumblr_mluaufQjPs1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 26 April 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
shower curtains imo
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 April 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link