GIFs

I made this GIF toady for this club:

The simplest GIFs are the most fun, maily because I get to work in my favorite medium, art pen and paper.

This is a GIF I made from a sketch of an idea fora GIF logo called Comics in Motion.

On another website, I was explaining the method in making simple loop GIFs:

23 hours ago, amoLucia said:

Uh, what's a GIF? Please enlighten this wondering one!

Thank you for asking, amoLucia. I love discussing this s***!

GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format. It's an animated loop of successive pics.

With claymation, I take a pic, move the sculpture ever so slightly, and continue to move the object intermittently, taking pics.

This is an early, simple claymation GIF, using only a total of five pics:

The separate pics look like this:

I load the pics into the GIF maker, imgflip, and voila, an animation!

It's the same principle with cartoons, only that they are two dimensional images with the movement changes drawn.

Like I said, I love this stuff!

45 minutes ago, amoLucia said:

This techno dinosaur remembers the day waaaay back when there would be like a 'deck' of cartoons or photos that one would 'flip' just like a deck of playing cards. The scenes would moves just a slight mm but would give the image of advancing motion. You've moved the process into the age of technology!

Well, actually, GIFs have been around since 1987, but it's the same basic format that you described with the flipping of the cards. Cards, only digitized.

The first GIF that ever attracted me was here on allnurses. A member had an avatar of a line drawing of a cat swatting at a butterfly. 

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This isn't he actual one, but pretty close.

I studied it and thought, "I could do something like that". So, after I retired, I taught myself how to make GIFs!

The process is totally enjoyable!

This is a claymation animation I made today, inspired by something Curious 1997 said in a thread about Kung Fu. It's made from a total of 28 pics and about 40 frames and was an enjoyable experience:

The Midnight Male Ninja Nurse vs the Coronavirus

This is my longest GIF yet, comprised of 87 frames and lasting nearly 17 seconds, tilted Popular Topics: