zach's old animations and new visual art, updated every 25 to 60 days

You can host the gif elsewhere and just use html to post the image, rather than uploading the gif to tumblr itself.

oh wait, it still scales down big pics doesn't it. :(

it's not the scaling down that's the problem so much as that it actually won't animate... like this:

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when I try to post that on tumblr, either as an uploaded file or as a URL, the result doesn't animate, it's just a still.

could on tumblr try to "like" one of my post

whoops, meant for this to be "could someone one tumblr"

someone ON tumblr

ban me from the internet, stick a fork in me

when I try to post that on tumblr, either as an uploaded file or as a URL, the result doesn't animate, it's just a still.

actually, scratch that, just to make things even more confusing, I think this is the situation:

I can link to an image in the html, and it will display as an animated image, just as it should. The problem is that when you create a post in tumblr, it has to be categorized (text, photo, video, etc). I can't categorize it as a photo and then just link to it in the HTML, because it gives me a "you need to upload a photo" error. I can categorize it as Text and post it, and it displays just fine - the only problem is that the image doesn't appear in the Dashboard. I don't want to do that, either, because then anyone following me will just a bunch of blank spots in their dashboard whenever I post something.

why are 21st century problems so, so lame? I'd rather have an oozing wound on the bottom of my calf from clearing brushwood or something

it's not a 500px limit that keeps it from animating, it's a 500kb limit. It would be totally fucking cool if a site dedicated almost entirely to hosting images had a fucking FAQ explaining this but hey you know, they've got more important things to worry about like letting people make sharks or cats avatars

it's not a 500px limit that keeps it from animating, it's a 500kb limit.

The image that I've been having trouble posting is the one of admrl I posted above:

it's wider than 500px, but it's also only 405kb. But for some reason, it won't animate.

I tried another image wider than 500px, and it worked. But it's only 214kb.

So even though the documentation that tumblr has says "Since resizing animated GIFs is computationally intensive, large files (greater than 512K or wider than 500 pixels) may lose their animation if the upload server runs out of memory. Please avoid uploading unreasonably large animated GIFs", it seems like the limit is somewhere lower, less than 400, maybe?

now that you mention it, I think they may have lowered the limit recently because I'm positive it used to be 500kb but I had to re-size one down to under 400 the other day too

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

"Harry, Frank and the rest of the boys talk business while waiting for the ball game to start. But when Vince loses his wallet, all hell breaks loose!"

raaaaaaaaaad

this should be probably be posted in the "your terrible ideas" thread, but I'm currently working on an entire episode of mad men with 6th grade goofball effects thrown over the top, to be posted on youtube in 5 segments. hope i don't get sued!

hope you do! that's instant fame and you can always pull the videos.

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Z can you please animate this:

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/E/EM/Emerson_Lake_Palmer/Love-Beach/love-beach-10.jpg

lol @ keith emerson on that one

lol @ everything on that one tbh

ELP, sweeeeeet!

Yeah, I'll work on in here in a minute

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i'm feeling v immature, again

magnifico, also omg eyebrows

if filesizes permitted, I'd have the 8th or 9th looped boner bulge through his pants into a smoking chainsaw

well, whatever, you only live once

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zs if you are wanting to become youtube video star i suggest you put all your gifs into a single mammoth movie and invite some drunkards over and record their reactions and that will be the audio for this movie which you will upload and become internet famous.
i have made a computer thingy to create such a video automatically from livejournal animated gifs but jeebus willing it will work for your gifs.

ha, it's not a bad idea (unless the captured audio was all like "what is this? these are stupid. hey man i know a MUCH better video, pass the computer this way! -what? why not? whose video? whose? Zach? who is Zach? oh, that guy in the kitchen? wait, which guy? ..THAT guy? let's get out of here, I know a much better place we can hang out")

I already have the software to put together a video, but i'm sorta concerned about blowing my wad and then having to wait another 3 years before I can build up enough to make another!

just set evil guide dog to music

if only it was that easy

lolling so hard at those ^^^

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Visine's stocks are soaring thanks to this thread, demand is through the roof!

if there is one thing the internet has taught me, quality stuff does not rise to the top organically.
i have now taken it upon myself to be your 1-person street team. watch for your gifs soon to appear in various sectors of the banking, UFO conspiracists, and competitive cup stacking subcultures for no earthly reason.

If you can get me a tumblr-related book deal, and also figure out how to make a book with animated gifs in it, I would be very grateful!

see that's where the big money is. lenticular books! scanimation!
http://www.amazon.com/Gallop-Scanimation-Picture-Book-Books/dp/0761147632

My daughter has that one and I can't for her to grow up so we can rip the pages apart.

get the cards: http://www.amazon.com/Gallop-Cards-Scanimation-Rufus-Butler/dp/0761152393/ref=pd_sim_b_5

Apparently there was also a magazine called Venture that used to feature a 3D image on every cover back in the 60-70s

I would totally reblog your gifs if my tumblr didn't already have a 'theme' =(

I totally understand. I'm not really reblogging either (at least not yet) even though there's loads of cool stuff that I'm seeing every day. This may or may not make me a dick in the tumblr community, I'm not sure yet!

and I gotta straight up ask: who is 67752? Whoever they are, they're being super nice

yea been wondering that myself

yeah, I don't know like half of the people following, I'm not sure if they're ILXors or if it's some 14-year-old falconry enthusiast stranger or something, which would be really cool

I hope you all don't fault me for not following. I prefer to hit yer tumblr through a bookmark instead of all at once on my "dashboard".

nah, I feel the same way, actually. I'm still trying to used to it, though. I like the idea of it, but when you follow enough people there's like a billion new posts every time you check in and it can get kinda overwhelming.

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