Ask Z S

Emily Robinson,

In retrospect, that was pretty much my highlight of the year. Just WAIT until you see what I have in store for next year!

Z_S, what does "Z_S" mean and do you like the band Zs?

Whiney,

I'm going to let kindergarten me take the first part of that.

http://i42.tinypic.com/wvbpc4.jpg

"Z STANDZ 4 ZESTY, ANDA S STANDZ 4 SUPER!!!"

The only song I've heard by Zs was the song that Hurting posted above. It was pretty good! If they ever played around here I'd definitely check them out.

Hey Z S,

I have a birthday coming up and I was wondering: Do you had an algorithm or heuristic I can use to determine how successful my life has been so far? Something like number of [condos owned / (yachts owned + 1) ] * hearts broken % character levels in Final Fantasy VI. The % there is the MOD operator.

los blue jeans,

Last night, I translated your question into a series of index cards with punched out holes and fed them into a top secret supercomputer from 1957. 11 hours later, the supercomputer gave me the following answer:

LifeSuccess = [100 + (2*#HeroicEvents) + (1.2*#SexyEvents) + (UniqueSkillz^1.5] / [1 + ABS(5 - #SidewalkPukeEvents) + (2.1*#MotherCryingEvents]

where HeroicEvents = http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/06/Goldwing-wheelie.jpg

SexyEvents = http://1-romantic-wedding.com/blog/pics/candle-light-dinner.jpg

UniqueSkillz = http://img.chinaa2z.com/uploadpic/news/2009/20090212/20090212094727261092/1234403500.jpg

SidewalkPukeEvents = http://www.timhus.ca/gallery_files/Spider_drunk.jpg

MotherCryingEvents = http://www.caica.org/martin%20mom%20crying.jpg

But then I asked the computer where minesweeeper was and it didn't give a coherent answer, so take all of that with a grain of salt.

mothercryingevents!

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/awwrite.jpg

Thanks, looks like i'm doin' aww-right!

Hay Z S,

Make a mix and then post it on your blog

You got it Karl Malone.

http://www.barrylutz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/barrylutzenmix.gif

http://www.barrylutz.com/2009/05/kickin-it-2009-mix/

http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/

Can someone with photoshop skills do a Shephard Fairey red&blue Obama style photoshop of her face, but instead of HOPE it says HOPA

promise u it will be a meme by sundown

― shake that ˁxᴥxˀ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:38 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

DUDE,

when are we gonna hang???

mandee says it is a must!

Webmail me!

Z S,

Are you related to this fellow?

http://shadowsandsatin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ssscott2.jpg

man, i wish. he has a theater in Austin! that reminds me, i need to catch one of his films sometime. i do enjoy that he takes up the bulk of the google search results for my name so i can be even more anonymous than i already am.

i dont really have a question, only a suggestion 2 make something w/ this

http://www.zsassociates.com/~/media/Images/Banners/Home%20Heros/3d_banner.ashx

hahaha

ZS is a 3D seedling

So glad I don't have to try to figure out what I'm supposed to be until I die! Now I can just hang out

dear zs
don't ask me why but I thnk we would be pals irl

not a q.
m bison

http://i.imgur.com/v8xZX.jpg

m bison, i bet we would!

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1gzuayKlO1qbvr04o1_500.gif

seems like a chill wave

. . .

rad! i gotta figure out how to do that..

it all starts when a butterfly flaps its wings just once

hey zs i think its sort of unnecessary how all of ilx feels they must inform you of every other gif site but i really want to make sure you're aware of this gif site:

http://fluxmachine.tumblr.com/

http://i.imgur.com/Q5YKq.gif

http://i.imgur.com/AhO6C.gif

whoa, that second one is amazing!

Z S,

Is it bad and wrong to pronounce "gif" with a hard g? Do you have strong feelings on the matter?

Respectfully,
RVW

Z S has gone on th erecord regarding this!!

http://www.marketplace.org/2014/02/19/business/conference-calls-best-and-worst

The first CD I bought was the Village People's Greatest Hits

nice recovery

oops, just saw this!

i kind of tried to play up my preference for the hard G on that segment for entertainment value, but my true answer is that the only strong feeling i have is that i get a little annoyed with people who strong feelings on it! not world-ending annoyed or anything, but every once in a while you'll run into someone who is very passionate about it one way or the other and things get very awkward.

search is not letting me or i cant remember the rt keywords to bring up for your animate a photo thread...

lets say i need/want a gif of my face slowly morphing back and forth w a baby white tiger, i trust if i give u the two images this is w/in your purview? lmk :)

search is not letting me or i cant remember the rt keywords to bring up for your animate a photo thread...
"drunkenly animate" usually works, although i too have been having trouble with certain searches recently!

lets say i need/want a gif of my face slowly morphing back and forth w a baby white tiger, i trust if i give u the two images this is w/in your purview? lmk :)

yeah i could give it a shot! a lot of it depends on the source material and how similar they look. if things don't line-up very well sometimes it can be a hard to do and takes a lot of time to fix. but yeah, go ahead and post 'em! i'm headed out for an evening of fun and excitement but can look at it tonight or tomorrow morning.

word thx ! yea no rush, i will post.. they sorta match up which is why it'd even been suggested to me

http://i67.tinypic.com/16hm0ya.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/jgkxhf.jpg

super big sry

i am on it

things went a little haywire but
http://68.media.tumblr.com/27653951644281a328444ae44eb2b0f9/tumblr_odu9w9KhJ31qdmmiqo1_500.gif

http://67.media.tumblr.com/75718b7b42a95475a1944daacb4930c9/tumblr_odu9w9KhJ31qdmmiqo2_r1_500.gif

http://67.media.tumblr.com/82fb1a9cd85f6e2e24e183a018eeaaa7/tumblr_odu9w9KhJ31qdmmiqo3_r1_500.gif

agh, i'm sorry. i just read your original request and realized what i was supposed to do. sorry, trivia night beers, i have ruined everything! hold on a sec!

soberer version

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

haha these are great, cheers

fantastic stuff!

can this type of animation skill be learned or is it rly rly difficult? if not too difficult can you recommend a website or some software to get me started?

Be great if there was some way of using animated gifs on your passport or driver's licence.

niels, i used the animation timeline feature of photoshop, exclusively, for make gifs for the first 6 years or so. mostly just using still images and playing around with them (like in the ones for j crunch above). over the last 2-3 years, though, i've been using more and more video clips, manipulating them in final cut pro and sometimes dumping them back into photoshop for finetuning. i don't think learning how to do it is really difficult, but it just takes tons of practice. i think most people could probably make much better gifs than i can if they put the same amount of hours into as i have. most people like to go outside and have friends and stuff, though, so that's usually a dealbreaker for practice time

i don't really have any good recommendations for tutorials, sorry! i'm mostly self-taught, to my detriment because there are a lot of extremely basic things you can do in photoshop that i'm completely clueless about. i also don't think too many gifmakers use photoshop as their primary software - even within the adobe suite, after effects is much more frequently used, i think.

the biggest breakthrough for me, early on, was learning how to manipulate the position and opacity of layers within the photoshop animation timeline, so that for each frame you can make adjustments to where each layer is and how transparent they are. knowing how to do that alone is like half the battle. i could have sworn a few years ago i posted a how to make an animated gif tutorial thread, but i can't manage to find it. regardless, i did a really bad job with it and made it too complicated, so it probably wouldn't be much use anyway!

Cool, thanks!

I never really advanced from MS Paint and always thought Photoshop looked really really difficult... but hey, if I can use it to make gifs like that... maybe I'll give it a go!

?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw7ky2EWgAAo6HG.jpg:large

you know sometimes i just can't TAKE donna's shit

she is a major league ass; good4u