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

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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:

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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)

thanks forks and LBI!

currently they're all collected at the top of this page: https://giphy.com/weinventyou/ , but they'll slide down the page as i add more gifs in the future.
they look kind of crazy there because transparent images usually do, unless they're on a lighter background like in a text.

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.

apparently Line (the Japanese messaging app) makes upwards of $250 million a YEAR on these kinds of stickers. so maybe after this last batch gets collected into more of an official pack (should be any time, i'm told?), i can reach out to Line to see if they'll pay me for some more.

These are awesome!

Still in a spell by man falling into car, I can watch that for five mins straight. #ivegotproblems #butiloveit

Would buy

Those stickers are rad as hell! The grilled cheese one is so satisfying.

https://vimeo.com/237568588
thought you might find this interesting

i DID find that interesting i now have a list of people he mentioned that i'll be checking out this afternoon, so thanks! plus i want to check out his other videos. it's a real gift to be able to cover huge topics like that in such a structured way. just really well done.

i'm not sure that he ever directly states that we're about to cross out of the uncanny valley, but i'm not sure that i agree. i have a really harebrained set of reasons why i think that's so, but maybe i'll see if i can revive your uncanny valley thread to elaborate because i'm sure 99% of ILX has learned not to click on this thread

sort of on the same topic, but i'm interested in making stuff that reflects back the uncanny valley effect, but using real life objects, sort of like this:

http://78.media.tumblr.com/83c6a26e3856b9454abe3b50c507c0bd/tumblr_ox9looUjSd1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

for christmas this year, if i can afford it, i'm going to try to buy myself a really basic photography/video setup with a white/green backdrop and some reflectors so that i can isolate objects more easily.

trembling plant fills me with a sense of panic

haha, well the effect would be less intense if you could see me crouched underneath the table shaking the legs, bumping my head on it over and over again while running over to my camera with a lens propped up on a pile of magazines in lieu of a functioning tripod. i really need to get some decent (ultra-budget) gear.

necessity mother of invention and all that

incidentally, i think that guy's thesis is that we are officially past the uncanny valley now and that the question is what do we do with what lies ahead

my instinct earlier was that the far end of the uncanny valley is still quite a bit away. but i don't know, then i asked my partner what she thought, and she thought it was within sight, that there are already examples of digital creations that already fool us. and then i remembered peter cushing's character in star wars rogue one - i had no idea he was just CGI until long after i saw the movie. so in a sense, it already passed a form of the AI test. that would have been unthinkable 15 years ago, without some sort of camera trickery (like using a silhouette or having the character underwater or something). but rogue one showed peter cushing's character close-up, in good lighting, and with lines of dialogue. so the fact that it's been done suggests that other AI efforts will also soon fool the human eye. and that's just the characters - environmental effects often fool the eye as well.

so maybe he's right.

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also a jacket hanging beneath a ceiling fan that i did earlier this week:

http://weinventyou.net/post/166270758665/jacket

i might have to do another version of it - the original footage was pretty decent and then i modified it so many times that i forgot what was good about it, then tried to do a drastic salvage job at the end

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Wuuuuut. Makes me think for some reason of this piece where the artist filmed a helicopter but the frame rate matched up with the propeller's speed somehow so it looks like it's just hovering with a still propeller.

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the second is called rows of clenching buttholes

How To Goodbye Depression

I would like to goodbye depression, I will try anything

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tbh there are worse strategies than the anus constrict plan. it’s its own sort of mindfulness

May I just say that those ceiling fans have been on my mind for weeks now.

lol

if you're jonesing for more ceiling an action i posted a short video featuring real LIVE FAN FOOTAGE here: http://weinventyou.net/post/166830543192/three-fans

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attn: Karl

Longmont Potion Castle

Z, can i get your magic touch on some of these? they're haunting me.
http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/photo/2017-photomicrography-competition

whoa, some of those are so cool! i love the granularity of the results. "In 17th place, we have..."

4th place in particular is a micro-nightmare

xpost i emailed LPC but i accidentally hit Send halfway through the second sentence. speaking of micro-nightmares. it's so weird, i've never done that before until earlier this year. two in a year! at any rate, it creates a panic because you want to quickly follow-up with the rest of the message. anyway, we'll see

a long time ago i was talking about making projections for a music video. it finally came out today! i made the projections for the ending sequence (3:33 til the end), both making them and also doing the projections at the shoot. it was fun! and nerveracking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgmGi_bvFKs

Nice work KM!!!

bravo! are you working with an agent now?

hahahahahaha, noooope, that's for sure.

you should be!

in happier news I've been going back and forth with LPC, it might actually turn into something! (h/t gr8080)

when are you gonna show more art in NYC, pal?

as soon as i figure out what the heck i'm doing / nevaaar

i do have a show in chicago coming up next spring, though. better than nothing! and i've been putting off making a "reel" for a long time because i wanted to include this projection footage in it. now i have no excuse, but hopefully it'll help me get some more work, too

Ahhhh this rules! Love the work man, so cool!

Btw I tipped you off for the LPC gig too just saying :D #fanboying If that leads to something the universe will be corrected again and all will be good. I'm busting for you ma.!

*man

H/T LBI too!! :)
H/T kurt schitterz

but actually i should not H/T at all because i'm not sure it's a thing yet. but at least we're talking!