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

kinda bleh week (trying to figure out how to use a new Ps+final cut blend of tools that i should have been using a long time ago) but i like the last one

http://38.media.tumblr.com/b59c134c515fb9a04b4d170bfcac25fb/tumblr_nla7rkXJY21qdmmiqo1_400.gif
http://38.media.tumblr.com/9a66670e8f443506fb435999f04b5c9b/tumblr_nlfujtggpm1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://38.media.tumblr.com/e4cc5a1e69bf6d2842b8ebd39fe8b32a/tumblr_nlmy6ddC6P1qdmmiqo1_400.gif
http://38.media.tumblr.com/9ffaffae37a143d969290287a06dc788/tumblr_nlvzfybANj1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://33.media.tumblr.com/850dbc12d4207c29b6d070f5579a3774/tumblr_nlw3trpfXB1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://38.media.tumblr.com/3664a98161ebe8fa6ff5e572fb932462/tumblr_nlw3t0LXqa1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://33.media.tumblr.com/2b90edb9ecc2f81e84775157b02b1398/tumblr_nlxsju6onK1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://38.media.tumblr.com/56c5bdd01d415111d6c711d33e266552/tumblr_nlxu9vrM6W1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

very Master Control Program, that last one

Ah man that one is so AWESOME. Really has a 3d optical illusion to it.

thanks! i just reworked an older one from a few years ago:

http://33.media.tumblr.com/d2cb851575f9d3d7dcabb4bbdc5cad7d/tumblr_nm00abrCWf1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

if i was the kind of guy who could make new fonts, i'd try to make it look like that and then call it Bird Cursive

actually this is more like bird cursive http://31.media.tumblr.com/683c90877debc070f79756508b6b424c/tumblr_nm013h5O4a1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

Old school.

http://insaneclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/phenakistoscope-4.gif

http://insaneclopedia.com/825/before-the-first-animated-gif-joseph-plateau-set-images-in-motion-with-the-phenakistoscope/

There's a Rhizome show at the New Museum in a couple weeks, and one of the sponsors asked me to make an animation for the logo.

http://i.imgur.com/ZiEr7I1.gif

congrats! that's ace!

thanks! commissions are sometimes fun because of the restraints. this one had to begin and end on just the words "Seven on Seven" in the middle, because I think they're getting a few other GIF people to do animations similarly, so they'll be able to loop and transition into each other seamlessly. pretty cool. wish i could go see the event but i think it's $2302342340 to attend or something around there

http://33.media.tumblr.com/1a20a0358f42f7fe0e8575ddb4f6747e/tumblr_nnneg62Bk01qdmmiqo1_400.gif
http://33.media.tumblr.com/16c907a16711967d4c6787fc4ea8f72d/tumblr_no3oj8du1l1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://38.media.tumblr.com/314ed5179f6f33891e4278698e031ef7/tumblr_no5azh3q9G1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

lol at eternal president disrupter

After watching hours of c-span footage of east room speeches, believe me when I say I was THRILLED to discover interrupter guy

http://38.media.tumblr.com/45d4a921ab283fcd24711469b781daca/tumblr_no60lrZY7b1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

One of your gifs showed up in a random slack giphy search.

Oh, I probably posted it. I post them on giphy occasionally when I want to link to them in twitter (since normally hosted gifs don't animate)

http://33.media.tumblr.com/b3ca02bf7ce2a227e67b17decf25e359/tumblr_nod6nlCACj1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

Hey, have you messed around any with different frame rates?

Like can you build one of these in photoshop? I put "no delay" in the animation window, but it still doesn't look like

http://i.imgur.com/62yXuqi.gif

yeah for sure, you can adjust the length of any individual frame in photoshop!

what's the most frames you've used in a single animated gif?

Like that basketball one up there, I lost count.

i had the same problem with gif exploder when i tried to count. it looks like it's at least 400?

i think i've made some with around 99? i post them on tumblr, and tumblr seems to have issues when gifs have around 60+ frames, and also gifs with that many frames are usually large filesizes and i try to keep things under 2MB since that's the tumblr limit

but really there's nothing to stop you from making gifs with a thousand frames except for practical things like processor speeds and acceptable filesizes

I'm kind of frustrated that I am now really into making gifs but I am never going to actually be good at it. I lack both the talent and the patience.

Like, the best I can do is pretty much this:

http://i.giphy.com/3oEduKwS16HfPth9jq.gif

that's awesome!!

are you using photoshop?

You got the shadows and smoothness and everything!

Haha, thanks guys. I use GIMP. I've been relying quite heavily on the 'blend' feature when I want to get non-jumpy movement but it sometimes throws up odd mixtures in the wrong order for some reason?!

i am so, so bad at GIMP. i tried to use it a few months ago to make something simple ad completely failed.

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https://31.media.tumblr.com/d8eabba876fabf7e09f24bc0ea2d00d4/tumblr_np76kb7dfe1qdmmiqo3_500.gif

Subtle

a+++

"You should have thought of that *before* the photographer got here!"

Lol

:D

psst Karl, does your ILX email go anywhere you'll see it? thx.

it goes to one i never check! but i just checked it, and i'll reply back in just a sec.

also, here was a recent true drunken animation

http://33.media.tumblr.com/9c77d208559eab06a6cfd694ed1bd16d/tumblr_npco1bkGYb1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

If you ever need a vape gif, well, you can probably find better than this, but here you go anyway: http://gph.is/1Ejt8CC

Is this any good? It's a page from Paul van Ostaijen's Bezette Stadt, which I'm kind of into the idea of animating. Though I don't speak any language well aside from English and it's in multiple languages in parts, so... maybe I can't do much of it with any great meaning. But maybe this is just shit anyway.

http://media.giphy.com/media/xTiTnfCtFvkas0KkBG/giphy.gif

that's cool, i'd never seen his stuff before! i like the woodcuts here:http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/Bezette%20Stad/index.htm

Yeah, it's a beautiful book. I'm really into typographic poetry, so even though I can't understand a large proportion of it, it's one of my most prized possessions. The bits I do understand are pretty righteous, also.

I dig typographic art - I like this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Typewriter-Art-Anthology-Barrie-Tullett/dp/1780673477/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433834395&sr=1-1&keywords=typewriter+art

I'm mostly into concrete poetry, but there's a lot of overlap.

http://i.imgur.com/JzkhJq9.jpg

hm

Hey, dowd, you might like this book, it's a pretty cool bit of typography/art: http://www.m9design.com/things/books-and-booklets/in-the-land-of-punctuation

That looks good, thanks!

http://cabbi.bo/enough/
^art experiment of sorts, a bit convoluted but well done visually

Saw this on fb.

https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQCLOq7ueKcAUax9&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2F3o85xJPSAqZFayUyiY%2Fgiphy.gif&ext=gif

Whoaaaaaaa.

I'm still working on my own stuff, but I think a big failing is that I'm actually shit at both art and computers, so I'm not convinced I'll ever be able to get to where I want to with this. Oh well, it fills the time.

http://38.media.tumblr.com/f24ae5968290456565759c3a2498ffa2/tumblr_nr7cer3vKO1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://31.media.tumblr.com/5bd4cdbc5399dc56c68b9079cf59f705/tumblr_nqxo2rVurf1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

https://38.media.tumblr.com/aad179ab0718efcb36386f872ec66083/tumblr_ns26c0KmAA1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
https://33.media.tumblr.com/119bf11e5c98b30a68359d46334846c0/tumblr_ns20rmlv3k1qdmmiqo2_500.gif
https://38.media.tumblr.com/733661145eafbd2f0e3516817c7e797a/tumblr_nrv6mdAj6K1qdmmiqo1_500.gif