Tag: animatedgifs

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Likes Pixabots — Free Pack of 2,000 Pixel Characters.

I made a tiny pixel character creator called Pixabots. It generates 10,752 unique combinations from four categories — eyes, heads, bodies, and tops — all bouncing on a little idle loop.

This pack is a curated 2,000 of them, ready to use. Free.

Pixabot character
Pixabot character
Pixabot character

Not sure where I saw this, there is a live editor at Pixabots — Pixel Character Avatars which is fun. Could be useful in class I think. Perhaps in Scratch when an uploaded gif is turned into a sprite with a costume for each frame.

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Animated gif of 4 batteries in a box, the name on the batteries is GIF, the colour of the text changes.

Forever

An anmimated gif of a dance scene from The Leopard. Text: The ‹Ds106 Dance goes on #4life

#TDC1968 see also dancing

Dancing

see also personal.

An old photo of an organ grinder with a monkey the grinders fae is replaced by Alan's the monkey by mine.

I’f I’d the skills this would not be a terrible edit and it would be animates. I do dance to a lot of Alan‘s Tunes.

Black and white croud dancing
dancing figures
Dancing couple from the La Dolce Vita movie

I’ve had a lot of fun and learning to make Jim Groom Dance. This is a reasonable example of how ds106 can lead you down strange paths of learning, and community. Jim took this in good part.

Personal

#tdc1919 Celebrity Heads in a Jar | The DS106 Daily Create

Making fun of DS106 leaders can get quite personal, see also socks and dancing.

Competitive

There is a DS106 Daily create score board, I was on the top once:

An animated gif of a stick figure climbing the DS106 top score list.

Political

Animated gif, green circle with text round the edge Vote #DS106 Make America Great again. a man in a ds106 t-shirt dances in the midlle, thsis section is rotating.

Make America Gif Again #tdc2392 #ds106 @jimgroom still dancing;-) See also, dancing, personal

Riffing

One of the best parts of DS106 is what some call remixing & I think of as riffing. Many of these are lost in the depths of delted twitter feeds, but one I recall was record riffing. Which ended up with this:

One of the most delightful things that can happen in DS106 is someone can take what you make and change or improve it, one of my favourites, #tdc1713 Get Your Mozart On: Compose an Imaginary Musical Manuscript | The DS106 Daily Create:

gif of music stabe animated to boince the notes up and dow.

This was much improve by Todd (lost on twitter) and made really musical by Viv.

In another post about this sort of thing I wrote

For me ds106 is a bit like non competitive tennis with self replicating balls that can be played on any court you like with any rules you like with the addition of be nice.

from: Boing – 106 drop in
Animated gif, a heron on the edge of a pond, ducks as a gull flys over. Text: Nervous? - make a gif.
Animated gif of black and white movie of old film, man falls over in the snow wearing snow shooes. Text It is so cold my gif froze.

Features image for #tdc320 using Alan’s photos.

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Bookmarked Adding a delay to the end of an animated gif by Robin.

gifsicle -U original.gif "#0--2" -d200 "#-1" -O2 > with-delay.gif

This is useful, I am making quite a lot of gifs for Glow Blogs help at the moment. Current workflow: export from screenflow as a mp4, Gif Brewery to create a gif and then this to add a bit of a delay and reduce file size. There is a nice explanation of the parameters.

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Replied to The GIF Is on Its Deathbed by Aaron DavisAaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)
Kaitlyn Tiffany reflects on the demise of GIFs. She discusses the embarrassing nature in which particular GIFs are used on repeat. In addition to this, the MP4 format is a lot smaller. Ir is interesting to look back on when I presented on GIFs as a form of quick makes.

Hi Aaron,
Thanks for this link, your pull quote is perfect. As a recovering gif masochists it really struck a chord. I never aimed for perfection just some strange self imposted notion around file size. I blame #DS106 for my may years of gif-addiction.

I don’t know if I’ll every break completely free, yesterday an image on my camera roll cried out for giffing. The modern way, an iOS shortcut resulted in a 2.2MB monster. After a fair bit of command line, with Eddie Kohler’s gifsicle, I eventually opened an older version of Mac os on parallels that could run FireWorks to to squash it to 448KB.

Although making gifs is redundant & silly, it has given me so much fun over the years and I like to feel taught me a lot.

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Bookmarked Gif it Up Winners 2021 (gifitup.net)
Grand Prize Winner Nisha Alberti (Edinburgh, Scotland) Source material: A gynaecologist strokes his long red beard. C. Josef, c. 1930 | Wellcome Collection via Europeana 3 Runners-up...

GIF IT UP is an annual gif-making competition for the most creative reuse of digitised cultural heritage material. It is run by Europeana in close cooperation with Digital Public Library of America, Digital NZ and Trove. In 2020 new content partners joined the fun – Japan Search and DAG Museums in Kolkata, while this year we welcome the Art Institute of Chicago.

HT to Paul Bond for reminding me. Some nice entries. I have entered In the past but forgot about Gif it up. A fun way to draw attention to some serious sharing of digital by museums and libraries.

 

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I’ve got my raspberry pi working as a webcam posting gifs every 9 minutes and stills every 5. Gif Cam.

The pi has been sitting around for a while acting as a web server with a broken tweetbot. It took very little effort to get it taking photos from our window and showing them on the web. Little more to grab a bunch and gif them (Gifsicle again). A better view might be more interesting.

I’ve not spent as much time as I’d like playing with the pi but the potential for play, learning and work seems large.