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

hell yeah i would get that

Thirded!

i've been on a raft in a river since last friday (on purpose, i feel i should add), so just seeing these really supportive messages. thank you! it was an old school high school friends kind of trip and it quickly became apparent that almost all of us are in some sort of crisis mode. we are all there for each other, but also not 100% there because we're dealing with our own shit. comforting and terrifying all the same.

if i could make any sort of money off of roku screensavers that would be a hilarious and amazing turn of events. i'll see if there's any sort of open submission process. on the patreon thing i've decided that i'd only feel comfortable with it if i had some sort of larger scale project i was working towards. in the optimistic version of the future a few years from now i'd be in the midst of a longer narrative video (like evil guide dog but not at all like evil guide dog i guess), like 20% done, and launching the patreon/kickstarter whatever thing would be a way to get support to get the other 80% done. or something like that. but right now i don't really have anything like that in the works. floating out there on the river, like the graduate in the pool, or like the sad guy in ferris bueller in the pool, 18-24 beers deep, i realized i really need to figure out what that larger scale project is and just start working on it. i mean, duh, but sometimes this kind of shit takes me years to work out. better late than never, i guess. anyway thank you for the support as always and i plan on bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever

Nothing like nature & beers for a cheap epiphany.

Make you a deal, ZS: you make something, I'll buy it.

i have to admit that's a hell of a deal!

i hope you like floating cubes in your living room (not really, but that's what i'm working on tonight)

if i can get my lazy butt off the couch and grab my projector i can try this out

http://68.media.tumblr.com/eecc5e7c8b2dbf2558eeab955c124ee1/tumblr_ortwc6z2lx1qdmmiqo1_r1_500.gif

I wonder if some kind of home internet-connected (or Sd-card?) projector installation could be a thing. When I saw Eno's 77 Million Paintings I was like, "fuck yeah, I'd dedicate a room in my house to this."

the CPU part of it would be pretty easy, i think - it would be pretty easy to set up a raspberry pi device to send video to a projector. or there are projectors that just have storage included, like you're saying. the tricky part would be semi-permanently installing a projector and/or objects in a room. it's one thing if it's just playing a video on a blank wall, so that if it's jostled a bit it doesn't really affect things too much. but when you project onto actual objects, moving anything by even a small amount can really mess things up. in my only IRL exhibition success story i was lucky to have a team of pros on hand that just handled everything with the rigging of the projector so that it was solid as a rock. but in my own living room experiments my projector is typically balanced on a pile of magazines in the most precarious fashion imaginable. i'd love to get better at the installation process of all this but i need to find an affordable studio space first.

i'm on the dreamin' large side of the Sine Wave of Moodiness and Life this morning, i am trying to ride the wave and do tricks and shit while i'm there

http://i.imgur.com/wqZo51k.jpg

An exciting clip from last night's episode of "Floating Glowing Cubes In My Living Room"#projection #projectionart #projectionmapping #wip pic.twitter.com/obdCaomk3r

— Zach Scott (@ZachScott_gif) June 20, 2017

thats p badass

still a work in progress but it was a pretty eerie thing to shine on the ceiling at 2am!

Whoa!rad!! Weinventyou meets turrell.

thanks! it still needs some work, but projections are really really satisfying to work on

plus you can bomb downtown when you get this down to a science and get famous

http://68.media.tumblr.com/af98fcad53ac3dcdbfa32866ce1dfa3b/tumblr_orz6gceFWX1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://68.media.tumblr.com/ca2d2900ca66a0f38edc95185deeb4f3/tumblr_osccv3UGcT1qdmmiqo1_1280.gif
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- start your week off on the wrong foot
- pg 38-??/400 until i fall asleep

almost 10% done
- (!!!!!!!!)

Killing it Zach

thanks matthewK, not really feeling like that but it's nice to hear!

i spent way the fuck too long on this, "The Last Coffee"

http://68.media.tumblr.com/f0247a9ec04c8dab24b75e2b24a01371/tumblr_otq2c1igCZ1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

originally it was going to be the first gif in an epic series, but after spending like 20 hours on the first one alone, i abandoned the idea. so instead, here's my rough draft of what would have happened and you just have to use your imagination on what it might have looked like (better that way than if i actually done it, trust me)

1 the last coffee crawls and spills drops as it goes (see GIF above)

2 and 3 the last coffee continues to wander slowly, becoming a little bit more empty with each successive GIF. reveal title: “The Last Coffee"

4 coffee finds a sink drain and contemplates about the meaning of the drain

5 coffee begins to pour its final drops down the drain. title changes to “THE LOST COFFEE"

6 a dripping sound in the distance makes coffee stand up

7 pursues the source of the dripping noise

8 the coffee meets the coffeemaker

9 close up of coffee dripping into the carafe

10 close up of coffee man. his world will never be the same

11 the last coffee gets a refill

12 the coffeemaker begins to fill up another cup of coffee.

13 the so-called last coffee witnesses the birth of another coffee. again, his mind is blown

14 several more coffees are born

15 the new community of coffee emerges. title changes to “THE LAST OF THE COFFEEs"

16 co-mingling of coffees, garden of eden style perfection and joy and innocence

17 a human suddenly appears and grabs a coffee

18 human blows to cool it down

19 close up of extreme terror on coffee's face

20 chugging it down, coffee upside down, legs kicking frantically in air

I love this.

i like the new yorker style approach with signature.

Karl plz plz set up a patreon I want The Last Coffee to be a fully produced animated short

++++++

but i already blew the ending! ;)

https://68.media.tumblr.com/5047bb8e3f287c0625e67cd4c0cdffe9/tumblr_ou3g65NXyu1qdmmiqo1_1280.gif

https://68.media.tumblr.com/dab41a8162f21f2ab08b89d6aed8783e/tumblr_ou3gp29nfJ1qdmmiqo1_1280.gif

That is horrifying and I'm not sure why.

terrifying moments in everyday life, brushing teeth by candlelight edition. i'm glad that you think it's horrifying! the humans in the story are just going to be doing normal things but their mere existence should completely freak the coffee person out.

hi_NRG clean teeth version!

https://68.media.tumblr.com/e2d8c7bf029f1948c306aafb6f264841/tumblr_ou48z0xJoO1qdmmiqo1_1280.gif

GAH!

There must be a word for horror at the everyday, but I can't think of one.

life

I thought the last coffee was a woman

someone asked me to make something for the first time in fucking forever so i got really excited and spent way too much time on it

https://68.media.tumblr.com/e92f2f8b0f68a5e68b54bd4a4dff8d9b/tumblr_ousgqrNUDA1qdmmiqo1_400.gif

i don't really like balloons but that was part of the request so

in other irl/commission sad news i was also asked out of the blue to work on an advertising campaign involving illustrations, the first time someone has offered to pay me in forever, and then i got really excited and responded shortly thereafter indicating my interest, and then they never responded

That sucks so much, sorry. I like the one you did w/ the balloons!

Do you have rates, like a flatrate for individual people and an hourly rate for businesses? Or are you figuring it out on the go?

honestly i get seldom get any offers to do anything so i haven't really established a set rate. some of the companies i've worked with have offered me a certain rate up front. others have asked me what what my rate is, and i make a guess of how long it will take me and try to offer a fair rate that reflects my beginner-hood but also compensates me fairly. so basically, figuring it out on the go. :)

at this point though i'm kind of desperate for anything. a couple years i made an ethical stand on a shoe company because they wanted me to sign my name on the GIF and personally endorse the shoe, and i didn't want to do that, so i backed out of the project. if they would ask me to do that now i would wear the shoe irl and sign my name 34 times all over the GIF and write "I LOVE THIS SHOE COMPANY" all over it

Have you ever looked into doing something with Gifpop. I don't know the 'gif world' but they make a point of giving gif artists a fair share. They do limited runs of physical gif cards, for example.

xp Aww man, yeah I totally get where you're coming from. I for one *know* your big break will come though. Just hoping it's soon-ish. Like, now.

special commission for fetchboy, requirements: “something fun involving Prince, hot dogs, and corn on the cob”
http://68.media.tumblr.com/d8342135edd294bc7cc387a15153afcd/tumblr_oux14qKiwS1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

my new career direction as innovator of style
http://i.imgur.com/juJy9AG.jpg

Love it!

now i just need to find a fearless person with a shaved head and the willingness to challenge eyebrow standards to be the figurehead of this eyebrow movement

don't have the genetics to pull it off

i plan on hermiting up like luke skywalker on a lush island and waiting for the chosen person to approach me. then i'll yell at them a bunch and make them fucking earn it

https://68.media.tumblr.com/0ab0e7a0f8611877a191ab08952fb643/tumblr_owjcdwnWrV1qdmmiqo3_500.gif
https://68.media.tumblr.com/6b9730ad67f59c563b20d5a8a6cbf00d/tumblr_owkeq0IRSn1qdmmiqo1_540.gif
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https://68.media.tumblr.com/772297555edafede0dce375f6f1e1614/tumblr_owkeq0IRSn1qdmmiqo3_540.gif

i've been working on a 25-gif "sticker pack" for giphy the last few weeks. the deadline is tight and the file restrictions have been challenging - keep it 500kb or less with dimensions of 618x618. normally i work with 490x490 and end up at around 2MB, so to cut down on the file size i've had to limit myself to 6 to 8 frame animations rather than the two or three dozen i usually end up with. on top of that, they're "stickers", which means they need to be transparent so they can be plastered into text messages (and on top of texts and images, depending on the messaging app you use). i rarely make transparent gifs, and quickly realized that i couldn't use any anti-aliasing, which i almost always use. anti-aliasing creates blended, "soft" semi-opaque pixels on edges so that it looks more realistic. but transparent gifs don't work well with anti-aliasing because they render the half-transparent pixels as either 0% or 100% transparency, which creates the really ugly blocks around the edges of some transparent GIFs.

anyway, since all of this flies in the face of what i've been making the last year or two, i revisited some of my older gifs (2011/12) that i made back when Tumblr had more restrictive file size limits for GIFs (it used to be 1MB! now it's ~3MB (some day it'll be hilarious to cite these numbers in the same way that we laugh at hardware capabilities from the 1960s). the old tumblr restrictions were kind of nice because they forced everyone to be more efficient. or actually, i think mainly people just ended up using lots of frames but downgrading the quality to absolute garbage level to get it under 1MB. but either way, i ran across an old 6 frame thing i did and reworked it a bit. this isn't the version that'll go into the sticker pack, but i like this one too:

https://68.media.tumblr.com/72acab01aeb5c0e56edc663217b3638c/tumblr_owwel198kC1qdmmiqo1_1280.gif

My attempts at this: new technology giving exciting new insights into undiscovered details in great works of art...

https://image.ibb.co/fWQVPQ/Vermeering.gif

https://image.ibb.co/mb8vr5/Eschering.gif

i like the vermeer!

lol
finally, with new technology we will be able to "enhance" and solve crimes

i finished the 25-GIF sticker pack, so if you're the kind of person who likes to use gifs in text messages you can check it out! you can find it on basically anything that uses giphy (facebook, iMessage, apps, etc) by searching for either #zachscott or #weinventyou. they're transparent, and if you have iMessage set up you can even plop them onto previous text messages and images that you've sent. it's kind of wild! they're supposed to be compiled into an official "pack" soon, which should hopefully make it easier to share to people. it's kind of weird to tell people you did something and then direct them to find it using hashtags. anyway, there were some big limitations in the requirements (which i rambled about above), but here are a few that i liked:

https://78.media.tumblr.com/ce2e11263d026ddef00cd8c13a3309cb/tumblr_ox9in50avQ1qdmmiqo1_1280.gifhttps://78.media.tumblr.com/b1ed983ed5d0e57ed7d0c67b50f5c885/tumblr_ox9in50avQ1qdmmiqo5_1280.gif
https://78.media.tumblr.com/949ba06d023f747694096bd9e8114bdd/tumblr_ox9in50avQ1qdmmiqo2_1280.gifhttps://78.media.tumblr.com/e373ac126eb172315dd9bd7c4750d892/tumblr_ox9in50avQ1qdmmiqo3_1280.gif
https://78.media.tumblr.com/d91b7c3cc1978063bad7858de24b1d41/tumblr_ox9in50avQ1qdmmiqo4_1280.gifhttps://78.media.tumblr.com/ba1292ffbd264fc16ca0c952c1da8698/tumblr_ox9in50avQ1qdmmiqo6_1280.gif

always solid.

Ahhhhhh jfc Zach those are fantastic! <3

Would be sweet if u got paid by usage for I'd send them to all my friends till they rip my phone from my hands tbh.

The businessmen falling into cars driving away all cool 'n stuff feels... profound. I mean that.

How can I see the other ones? (I don't use this stuff on apps for fb or whatever, sorry)