This lesson we was learning to make GIFs. Our first exercise was to make Donald Trump ‘talk’ by animating his mouth. I found this a really tricky lesson and got stuck half way through. Aaron came and helped me turn my series of manipulated images into a moving sequence, which was great. However, I didn’t save the end result so I had to repeat the lesson at home, so I could show it on this blog.
Regarding the GIFs, I understood the basic principles involved – like an old fashioned ‘flip-book’ from when I was a child. The process is all about repetition and making tiny changes…
Initially I thought this would be too difficult and time consuming to use in my practice in the future.
However, I changed my mind after I had a go at creating a short video using someone else’s GIF’s. It made me realise what fun they are when they are up and running. So I have revised my opinion about these.
Future possibilities
I think I would like to try and make my own GIFs in line with my current theme. It would be a way to take forward what I’ve already done using (the artist and animator) Nina Paley’s individual dancing Goddesses. I could perhaps use my own Goddess images and animate them, maybe for my final assessment in the summer?
So, now that I have thought about it the task doesn’t seem too bad. Although making GIFs is time consuming, I would get used to it and it would be worth it to me to get the results I want.
This image is one of my drawings, which I have turned into a little GIF… It is obviously a clumsy start, but I can work on improving these skills to produce better results in the future.
I checked out insta.gif but the app kept crashing on my phone. I noticed other people reported the same problem with the app. It looked like an interesting idea and I saw something similar at the Manga exhibition at the British Museum this summer.
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