ZS,
where did you learn the trade of gif animation? will you give us your secrets?
lol,kevin
― Jewish Lager (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Caek,
Oh man...I think Roxy probably has an answer for this. She would say Michael Cera, but I guess he's a big star now so that kind of feels like saying "yeah, Sylvester Stallone would play me". Actually, shit, Frank Stallone would play me!
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Kevin,
I can definitely tell you where it started from, at least. I was hanging out with a good friend of mine when I lived in Chicago. He's a graphic designer and general photoshop whiz. He nonchalantly grabbed my computer and created this in just 2 minutes or so:
http://i40.tinypic.com/1198qqt.jpg
I watched him as he did it, and he made it look so easy. I always thought Photoshop stuff was something I couldn't even attempt without some training, but I realized that a lot of it just selecting stuff with a lasso with different feather settings, moving stuff around, and blending edges together.
I think the trickiest part of animations is to make them small enough. I try to impose a 250K limit on everything that I do, which means that there is usually some combination of reducing the number of total layers/frames and the image size. I suppose that this restraint is really stupid, actually, because bandwidth and storage are always increasing. I mean, in 10 years, the 250K limit I had will be like a 5 1/4" floppy disk.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, as outdated as having to use a 5 1/4" floppy disk.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
zs,
i am not sure what you are insinuating. i really just wanna know your thoughts on karl malone?
― samba de ORLY (tehresa), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i38.tinypic.com/21x6jd.jpg
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Karl Malone is on some n/l shit!
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
no logo
― s1ocki, Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
lol karl
― Jewish Lager (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 February 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
zs:
http://rs477.rapidshare.com/files/145434297/zs_-_bump.mp3
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Hurting:
wow, that is not at all what I was expecting, but in a good way!
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I knew this would be great.
― lol (roxymuzak), Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah. It's actually less rawkus than some of their other stuff, but it's my favorite of what I've heard.
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL I spelled it rawkus like the soundbombing label.
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I MEANT "ASK ZS"
― lol (roxymuzak), Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I MEANT "YEAH IT IS NOT WHAT YOU WERE EXPECTING BUT IN A GOOD WAY"
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
TO ZS, i.e. XPOST
LET'S NOT FIGHT LOL
― lol (roxymuzak), Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
OK :)
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Hurting, that song definitely whet my whistle. I'll be listening to them more in the coming week.
http://i39.tinypic.com/10s674n.gif
"And, finally, the votes are in and Entertainment Weekly has chosen its Funniest Man Alive. And who is the Funniest Man Alive? You guessed it -- Frank Stallone!"
http://i39.tinypic.com/xbxu79.jpg
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Z S,
What is your favorite meal?
Signed, Roxy
― lol (roxymuzak), Monday, 16 February 2009 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
With thanks,
― caek, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
(caek, I think whatever you enclosed in that envelope got lost in the mail)
Z S,
What are your opinions on this cake?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/Michelle_D.jpg
Sincerely,Roxy[encl.]
― lol (roxymuzak), Monday, 16 February 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
That was no envelope. It was a with compliments slip.
― caek, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Roxy,
Any answer I can give you has to be prefaced with my belief that my tastebuds may be totally, irreversibly broken. I don't know how it happened, but there you go. I feel like I only experience the 45th-55th percentile of taste satisfaction. Nothing really tastes that bad, but very there are very few meals that I actually get excited about eating, either.
That said, and maybe this is a boring answer, but my favorite meal is definitely a sushi feast, with eel, salmon and shrimp rolls, vegetable tempura, Hot and Sour soup, a few individual Tamago, and if I'm feeling really saucy, some sashimi. That is one of the few meals that gets me to the 80th percentile.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Monday, 16 February 2009 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to take your bodyless message as a suggestion that I should fill the space with a weird anecdote that relates to you.
Two nights ago I nearly wrote you an ILX mail asking you for help with forming an equation for a dynamic model I'm working on. I had a variable that kept track of annual wind energy electricity generation additions. I wanted to have it so that it had a rough S shape, so that there were steadily rising additions for the next 20-30 years, and then a gradual leveling off at some point. (it's a bit more complicated than that, but that sums it up.) You're one of ILX's resident math/physics experts, so I thought you'd be a good person to ask. But then I had second thoughts, because I realized it's really lame to receive what amounts to "help with homework" in an email from a relative stranger. So I made an appointment with one of my professors instead. So little do you know, but you dodged a "homework help" bullet the other night.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Monday, 16 February 2009 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I need to know what's going on underneath the table. Dude/cake has this look on his face like "I'm not wearing any pants". I also wonder how long this cake is going to last without rotting, if it stays unrefrigerated.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Monday, 16 February 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
[encl: the information you requested]
Nothing is going on beneath the table. This cake has been printed with a photograph of this young man's face.
Yours,Roxy
― lol (roxymuzak), Monday, 16 February 2009 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link
No way! That's awesome. I even considered that maybe the dude wasn't real, but it looks too good! I say, then, that this is one of the greatest cakes of all time.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Monday, 16 February 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
They should've left the cake blank and projected on it that guy's face moving his lips from an old film projecter in the next room.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 16 February 2009 04:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I promise not to fill this thread with this sort of nonsense, but
http://www.barrylutz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/blubblub.gif
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Monday, 16 February 2009 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Danghttp://www.barrylutz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/blubblub.gif
omgomgomg
― lol (roxymuzak), Monday, 16 February 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
good times!
p.s. arctan(x) might have worked after some shifting aroundhttp://www.mapleprimes.com/files/8001_asymptote%202%20arctan(x).jpg
― caek, Monday, 16 February 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw, thanks anyway caek, that would have worked too, actually.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
how awesome would it be if Z S turned out to be Zadie Smith?
― You just got HAPPENED (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 06:44 (fifteen years ago) link
HE'S A SHE!!!
― Khat Power (Batty), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 07:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Glancing through that thread, some people would think it was awesome, and others would suggest ban me off ILX!
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
it's tru isn't it
― Also, the game will have toilets. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
A second opinion:
http://storage.myheritagefiles.com/R/storage/site1/files/77/03/62/770362_1294302486b994k5674p21.JPG
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
interesting if true
― caek, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
such an awesomely lollable site in its consistently off-tm-ness
― lol (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear ZS, Could you find an appropriate picture of noted jazz musician Victor Wooten (GIS should yield easy results), modify it so that he appears to be wearing ICP makeup and then post the finished product both here and on:DOES ANYONE IN THIS BITCH LIKE ICPto thus create a Victor Woot Wooten Juggalo.
I will totally understand if this is too much work for too little lolz, but it's been bothering me for awhile now. Don't know why.
― Also, the game will have toilets. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 February 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/wootenicped.jpg
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Friday, 20 February 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
You are a special person.
― I feel twitterers around me (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 February 2009 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
TCB
― lol (roxymuzak), Friday, 20 February 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/lols.jpg?
Regards,Emily Robinson
― tuppence b. bag (roxymuzak), Saturday, 25 April 2009 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― "buttz" (Z S), Saturday, 25 April 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Z_S, what does "Z_S" mean and do you like the band Zs?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 25 April 2009 06:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― "buttz" (Z S), Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
rad! i gotta figure out how to do that..
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
it all starts when a butterfly flaps its wings just once
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 6 April 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
whoa, that second one is amazing!
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Friday, 6 April 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Is it bad and wrong to pronounce "gif" with a hard g? Do you have strong feelings on the matter?
Respectfully,RVW
― yes wave (rip van wanko), Friday, 20 November 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
Z S has gone on th erecord regarding this!!
http://www.marketplace.org/2014/02/19/business/conference-calls-best-and-worst
― gr8080, Monday, 23 November 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
The first CD I bought was the Village People's Greatest Hits
nice recovery
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 November 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 November 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
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 :)
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
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!
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.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
word thx ! yea no rush, i will post.. they sorta match up which is why it'd even been suggested to me
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
http://i67.tinypic.com/16hm0ya.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/jgkxhf.jpg
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
super big sry
i am on it
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 05:15 (seven years ago) link
things went a little haywire but http://68.media.tumblr.com/27653951644281a328444ae44eb2b0f9/tumblr_odu9w9KhJ31qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 05:31 (seven years ago) link
http://67.media.tumblr.com/75718b7b42a95475a1944daacb4930c9/tumblr_odu9w9KhJ31qdmmiqo2_r1_500.gif
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 05:52 (seven years ago) link
http://67.media.tumblr.com/82fb1a9cd85f6e2e24e183a018eeaaa7/tumblr_odu9w9KhJ31qdmmiqo3_r1_500.gif
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 06:09 (seven years ago) link
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!
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 06:10 (seven years ago) link
soberer version
http://i.imgur.com/DDjvPYt.gif
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 07:14 (seven years ago) link
haha these are great, cheers
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:11 (seven years ago) link
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?
― niels, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Be great if there was some way of using animated gifs on your passport or driver's licence.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:23 (seven years ago) link
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!
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
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!
― niels, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw7ky2EWgAAo6HG.jpg:large
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Thursday, 10 November 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
you know sometimes i just can't TAKE donna's shit
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 November 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
she is a major league ass; good4u
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 November 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Z SZi StZig StaZigg StarZiggy StardZiggy StarduZiggy StardusZiggy Stardust
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
i was always jealous of my partner's initials. they're pleasing. but Z S, and Ziggy Stardust? this is making me feel great! I thought 25 and ZS was decent, but having this Bowie connection is something else
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
plus, the song five years? and my lifelong obsession with remembering things in five year increments (weird story)? that can't be a coincidence.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
Omg i knew Bowie wasn't dead and was KM all along
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:17 (four years ago) link
Chemtrails brought him back
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
not only that, but the cover is just a (misleading) still from a video, which has been newly uncovered:
https://i.imgur.com/SoDYFKn.gif
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link