{"id":905,"date":"2013-08-10T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T14:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=905"},"modified":"2013-08-10T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T16:03:01","slug":"unicorn-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/unicorn-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Unicorn #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/category\/ds106\/assignments\/animated-gif\/august-2013-gif-challenge\/\">August 2013 GIF Challenge<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/iamtalkytina.com\/2013\/08\/august-2013-gif-challenge-9-empower-the-unicorn\/\">August 2013 GIF Challenge #9: Empower the Unicorn<\/a>. My friend Tina is thinking of the ds106 servers which seem to be having a wee bit of bother.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps you can help the unicorns and the rainbows? Make an animated GIF celebrating the behind the scenes work that keeps the ds106.us server happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I imagine that an animated gif is a good representation of the work involved in keeping a server up, it never stops.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a unicorn speeding through the centre of the rainbow:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-906\" alt=\"The_unicorn_in_Motion-anim\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The_unicorn_in_Motion-anim.gif\" width=\"340\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is one bringing reinforcements:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-907\" alt=\"The_unicorn_in_Motion-tina\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The_unicorn_in_Motion-tina.gif\" width=\"340\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using the public domain <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Horse_in_Motion-anim.gif\">File:The Horse in Motion-anim.gif &#8211; Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Made with Fireworks.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the gif<\/li>\n<li>Through the frames deleting background.<\/li>\n<li>Through again adding a horn (copy paste, rotate &amp; move)<\/li>\n<li>New gradient layer behind horse on first frame.<\/li>\n<li>Copy<\/li>\n<li>Paste onto each frame changing the gradient.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The second the gradient is twice the width of the gif and is pasted and moved on each frame.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The_unicorn_in_Motion-rainbow.gif\" alt=\"The_unicorn_in_Motion-rainbow\" width=\"340\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-909\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s August 2013 GIF Challenge is August 2013 GIF Challenge #9: Empower the Unicorn. My friend Tina is thinking of the ds106 servers which seem to be having a wee bit of bother. Perhaps you can help the unicorns and the rainbows? Make an animated GIF celebrating the behind the scenes work that keeps the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/unicorn-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unicorn #9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,49,73],"tags":[112,110,29,119],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animatedgif","category-assignment","category-remix","tag-headless","tag-headless13","tag-visualassignments","tag-visualassignments842"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-eB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}