I'm learning how to make gifs. Thread contains Goku
Parallax Skull

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I've recently gotten into making animated gifs. A lot of my recent ones have been about Dragon Ball, and I made this thread so I'd stop bumping the Goku thread in the main forum. I also make stuff that's too long to be a gif. You can embed videos here so it works. I've also been learning how to keep file sizes low for gifs. Here's some stuff I've made.








I made this for a "photoshop trump and obama into stuff" thread on GBS awhile back (and posted it under the username Skullmund Dot Com):



I like editing stuff down for length.

8 minute fight down to 8 seconds

5 episodes into 16 seconds


September 19, 2018:
In addition to derivative gifs/vedios, I'm starting to make my own animations from scratch, focusing on parallax scrolling.


This is the first proof of concept I've put together using parallax scrolling and pixel art. Now that I know how to do it, I can use it with better art and do other things with it.


I've made some Skullmund banners. Gonna add them here when I remember what I made.

Sep 19 2018: Updated banners. Still missing a few.























Some of the stuff I want to improve at is editing software/techniques, optimizing file size, and where the fuck to upload the stuff I make so that more than just all 20 of us cornboys will see them.

For now I'm putting all my stuff on tumblr: https://zarbone.tumblr.com


Anyway I'm gonna post more shit I as i make it and hopefully learn some shit along the way, and maybe even teach some shit as well. im gay
 
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Parallax Skull

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Invading post 2 because Skullmund won't let me post more than 20 images in a post!

Here are some more banners that I made.




















I might still be missing a few banners.




Future note: the following is BACK IN HISTORY TIMES:
Here's a looping gif I made recently. I think it's the only one I've got so far that is under tumblr's size limits.

Twitter lets you upload gifs up to 15 mb, but they will only auto-play and loop if they're under 6.5 seconds. Tumblr only allows gifs under 3 mb. Reducing file size is a major thing I want to work on learning how to do. Since twitter automatically shrinks the resolution on gifs, I may just start using that resolution for most of my stuff.



btw, I only started using tumblr recently so I have somewhere to post these, and it turns out that every tumblr stereotype is true.

September 19 2018 update: I pretty much only post gifs on my tumblr anymore. It got kind of popular I guess. zarbone.tumblr.com
 
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Parallax Skull

Parallax Skull

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btw, i pronounce it "gif"
 
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Parallax Skull

Parallax Skull

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Thanks for this thread I also want to start doing jifs
yeah go ahead and post em itt if you want
 
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Jigglesby

Jigglesby

Keep it on the one.
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I tried a couple times to do something with scene from the expendables when they nearly kick a dudes head off. I discourage easily
 
Parallax Skull

Parallax Skull

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Just made this one. First time I've used ezgif. I still used Premiere to make the animation, but then ezgif has some nice optimization tools I used to bring the file size down under 3 mb.

 
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Parallax Skull

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This is the first one where I had to mess with the colors. Premiere output a gif where Vegeta looked like complete shit due to all the dithering. I had to bring it into Photoshop and use the "adaptive palette" feature to have it pick a smarter color table. It auto-picked the colors and seems to have done it well.



Why do I have black bars? No clue. The dimensions I entered shouldn't have any and I'm not gonna bother fucking with it to get rid of them.

Edit: Eh fuck it, I'm in Photoshop anyway so it's trivial to crop em out. Uploaded new version.
 
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Parallax Skull

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Last one for tonight. Had the longest workflow yet making this one.



I'm keeping everything under 3 mb for now.
 
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Jungle Love Crate

Jungle Love Crate

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i will now go through every post in this thread and Doubloon the fuck out of Parallax
 
Parallax Skull

Parallax Skull

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i will now go through every post in this thread and Doubloon the fuck out of Parallax
ty. i'm a drug dealer so you get weed in return
 
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Parallax Skull

Parallax Skull

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This one involved splicing together two different scenes from episode 101 of Dragon Ball Super in order to get a decent loop.



This is some asshole attacking some bitch
 
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Jungle Love Crate

Jungle Love Crate

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if only I could give you multiple Doubloons per post
 
proof of concept

proof of concept

waiting for the day the whole world fucking dies
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the most annoying thing about trying to make good loops is that even if the foreground loops good the background might not and you have to decide how important that is
 
Parallax Skull

Parallax Skull

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the most annoying thing about trying to make good loops is that even if the foreground loops good the background might not and you have to decide how important that is
yep. the clouds in the background of that most recent gif don't loop well, but it's hard to notice with the action happening in the foreground.

the recent episodes of db super have all had that cloud background, so i have to either look for clips where you can't see the sky, or cut between multiple shots so you can't see the clouds suddenly jump to a different spot.