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

psychedelic moire!

digable planets

z do u reckon u could get any mileage out of this delightful drawing

terrible sketched portraits by deviantart nudniks

looooooool
I could try, but it's already pretty funny!

ya, but there's a lot of potential for unsettling or surreal...

Church of the Sub-Sub-Genius

http://i56.tinypic.com/2us8t1z.gif

that's nice! every waterfall needs to have a glowing paulie walnuts floating across the sky to truly bring out their splendour tho

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgkmdz289t1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

xpost lol

that's super good

Reminds me of those moving paintings in chinese restaurants, only radder.

Hey ZS, I would like to make Watson speech programmer Bhuvana Ramabhadran aware of my love for her, can you please animate this headshot into a not-so-creepy expression of my infatuation? Preferably with some sort of robot imagery?
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/images/what-is-watson/research-team/speech/bhuvana-ramabhadran.jpg

. . .

also, please make sure the phrase "DOT DOT DOT" is in there somewhere

z s you should send these dudes your liars gif
http://animatedalbums.tumblr.com/

That's a good idea, and maybe I'll send them my Emerson lake and boner one too, and the king crimson.

Forks, I'll try to get on yours soon. I've been lol sad for no real reason lately and it's hard to be creative in that state for me. If you do end up getting it on with this lady as a result of any gif I make, I would kindly request that you tell her to visit weinventyou.net within 20 seconds of the climax, either before, after or during.

it's about as unlikely as could be, but that is my promise to you.
i will absolutely start a "I <3 U Bhuvana Ramabhadran" thread with any gif you provide tho.

also, chin up papi it's gonna be all good

we finally got round to finding and sending that MOME wraparound band today, so maybe that'll cheer you up?

Z S just in case you didnt bookmark this thread: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=2382940&boardid=77&threadid=67507

v v important thanks

Should the headphones be heavily pixelated in the dealwithit tradition, or photorealistic?

These are pressing issues of the day!

shit thats a really good question.

i'd say heavily pixelated but still recognizable as BEATS BY DR DRE style headphones?

ok, I haven't done that yet, but I did work on

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgujlc59Fd1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

hahahaha

hahahahaha

omfg

looooooooooooooool

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgvov7kd6j1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

http://antlerswifi.com/

commissioned work for http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif:

http://i53.tinypic.com/iw7vqb.gif

haha, didn't know ch4ki's name was autoreplaced!

another version

http://i54.tinypic.com/jfvr6o.gif

http://i56.tinypic.com/23iwigj.gif
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh3psxMXCY1qdmmiqo1_400.gif
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhexq6lJpz1qdmmiqo1_400.gif
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhiexdsJjr1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhgno92TyX1qdmmiqo1_400.gif

don't know if anyone cares but i started up a twitter account if that's more of your style: http://twitter.com/weinventyou/

i have one follower

van gogh is awesome and brilliant

van gooooooghly

i like that one too; it only took about 5 minutes, just overlaying images and blending.

great gooooooooghly mooooogly

one more follower. luvyrstuff.

From Three Frames via Dangerous Minds.

Repulsion

"Alessandro Cima says:
Such an odd form of expression - the animated gif. I can’t quite figure it out. Why would one do it? Why not just do the whole film and call it a film?"

what do you say to THAT, gr8080?? checkMATE

Mar 05, 2011
Alessandro Cima says:

Such an odd form of expression - the animated gif. I can’t quite figure it out. Why would one do it? Why not just do the whole film and call it a film?

hahaa xpost

I have to say I never would have thought of the animated gif as a platform for art, but its progression has been really interesting to watch.

btw meant to tell you grady that an old friend of mine called me up yesterday, was giving me some nice compliments about weinventyou, then out of nowhere goes "have you seen 3 frames!?"

i was like "not only have i seen 3 frames...i know the guy who runs 3 frames...on the INTERNET"

Z S, how'd you start out doing these? i haven't been on this thread for months and have to say you've improved nine-fold... they're incredible

Had a LR buddy post threeframes to his FB profile this weekend.

Like when my editor fwds MR gawker stories to the staff.

Matter of time before I see a ZS gif show up somewhere local.

thanks kelpolaris!

it started it off as just a "fun" thing to do for an ilx thread..after a month or so i got the harebrained idea that i could start up a website and that it would really take off. the idea was that random internet people would submit animation "requests" (similar to this thread at the beginning) and that i'd animate them. people are always looking for cool facebook profile pics, if nothing else, and a custom gif is kind of a novelty still, if it's done well. i thought that people would maybe like their custom animations, and then tell their friends so they could get animated too. and so on, until some sort of critical mass was reached.

then i started barrylutz.com and got about 34 hits per month (most of them coming from my own visits)

i don't really know why i'm still doing it, or what i'm trying to accomplish. have to admit there are many times when i wonder if it was a good idea to invest 1000s of hours into this stuff. if i wasn't doing this i'd probably still be investing 1000s of hours into my crappy "music", so i guess it's a zero sum game, kinda

have to admit there are many times when i wonder if it was a good idea to invest 1000s of hours into this stuff.

you just described every great success story, zs

that's totally right.

hope you guys are right! (part of me worries that it also describes many terrible failures as well)

it does, but them's the risks you take. also, your work is awesome.