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

thanks! yeah, i'll probably keep making gifs. it's an addiction. another pair from just now because hey why not:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/763a2917eb8e64a6dbc3c49d2df1b7c2/tumblr_mjqbubeMeV1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/763a2917eb8e64a6dbc3c49d2df1b7c2/tumblr_mjqbubeMeV1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/20df167ebfdca24333d0c3d69c74c97b/tumblr_mjqbtro29w1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/20df167ebfdca24333d0c3d69c74c97b/tumblr_mjqbtro29w1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

ey what do you use to make these? photoshop?

yerp

http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/humanbody_female3.gif
http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/humanbody_male1.gif
http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/humanbody_side2.gif
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/06/vintage-human-body-gifs/

Plz don't quit the gif game.

gifs, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.

i'm fighting the urge to redo those anatomical gifs and make them a little smoother!

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

here we go:

http://i.imgur.com/DOP1aNs.gif

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.

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.

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"

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.

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?

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.

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

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?

What the hell, I tried transparency & offset & change width. Updated the page here

very illuminating Zs

i adore geoffrey lillemon's site

http://24.media.tumblr.com/53cce1877b895386c27250d08a88cdba/tumblr_mjrwu6eWjh1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/47e3696738642e5d9b26449fcb764160/tumblr_mjrwswwstP1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://25.media.tumblr.com/b1f9cd732fe18297860653a51f049091/tumblr_mjs5vwLnhw1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/b1f9cd732fe18297860653a51f049091/tumblr_mjs5vwLnhw1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://25.media.tumblr.com/20b1a99330e167e60fed91716b23f6b5/tumblr_mjxurwlYjx1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/225a03ad0c86bac57d47020d1fdd6453/tumblr_mjxldsmalU1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

wow, great

latter two are from the super sad/freaky nat. geo doc on north korea

AHEM
https://plus.google.com/+google/posts/F1YjHaT7ZUk

AHEM
https://plus.google.com/+google/posts/F1YjHaT7ZUk

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.

hey, cool!

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

everyone should be. its the one part of google other than email that i use all the time

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.

This search by animation thing is pretty incredible.

http://www.watchingthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/image/googlereadersort.gif

is that flipbook?

That's an animated gif search for Google Reader.

Flipboard. I meant flipboard.

http://flipboard.com/

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."

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

wild
when they start making printable gifs you are so gonna make a billion

put them on an led t-shirt

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

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.jpg
i'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?

Lol, that's a pretty great picture! I'll see if I can do it this weekend.

woah i haven't been to this thread in months. ZS your skills are multiplying.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/3e021844e141fd18211322b511bd4558/tumblr_mkwc69HPVp1qdmmiqo1_400.gif
http://25.media.tumblr.com/a9345d8724c89491ebe785ae4059304e/tumblr_mkhpog5MEq1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://i.imgur.com/epEQQIk.gif

Postcard is fab! And is that Maru?

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