I know this blog has traditionally been used to document my teaching, but starting tonight I want to also use it to document my learning. Tonight, for the better part of the night I learned how to create an animated .gif. After seeing several great examples on DS106 blog, I was intrigued by the haunting quality of this medium to see if I could do create one myself. So I did, what I do when I want to learn something new- I played and pushed the buttons and didn’t stop till I had at least a first step.
I am not sure if I did it right, and my final product is still rough and needs nuances and lots of work, but I think I now understand the basics. Here is what I did. Please let me know where I went down a wrong path or if there is an easier way to do this any of this:
- I downloaded a clip from The Breakfast Club
- I shortened it down to about 3 seconds on iMovie
- I uploaded it to this site called Gifninja
- I opened the new animated .gif in Preview and moved half the clips to Photoshop
- I used about nine of them to create my first ever animated Gif! (Tutorial on youtube)
There are a lot of things wrong with it like the pixelated tiny size. It is moving too fast with too many frames, and not so haunting, but it is a first step. Now that I know what it takes to actually create one, I can focus on finding nuance and the right scene to play more careful attention to. Next time, I will work bigger and slower. Really looking at the piece as a photograoh that barely moves, not just a slowed down film clip. I am also interested in create a animated .gif of images I take myself. Lot’s to think about.
It feels good to start the night never having done a certain thing, and end the night having created something you never thought you could. This is the nature of learning online. Everything is possible if you dedicated the time and attention it needs to learn.
Nice, Bender FTW. “Smoke up Johnny!”
Great first effort! I’ve been meaning to find time to learn this stuff, too, so now I’m more inspired.
I am going to need to try this soon. For sure.
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Thanks guys. It felt great to sit and just hammer out the details. I like to jump right in and see how far I can get with something before I get too frustrated to continue. Usually what happens is, I create a quick rushed first draft and make notes on what to do next time.
Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with and how you get there. I am pretty sure there is a better way to do this, than what I did, but it worked and that is all that counts.
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Thanks to @peteschneider for bringing this to my attention:
http://www.squared5.com/
Now there is no need for sloppy Gif Ninja, you can simply import your clip into this program and export images to sequence. Then carry on to step 4. Looking forward to the next trial . Slower, bigger, clearer
Squared5 is such a great tool for quick and easy video conversion and compression, never thought of it for animated gif, but this is brilliant! Thanks for this!
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