This one continues to be popular on my blog and involved some pretty serious frame by frame editing. Maybe I'll do a comparison post with the original later.
OK, here's some insight into the sort of work I do on these.
This was a gif where Goku kicks Buu and then Buu goes flying. In the show, Goku pauses after kicking, but I wanted to shorten that so that the shot of Buu flying backwards can better carry the momentum from Goku’s kick.
Instead of having Goku stay in place, I have him immediately “teleport” out as he’s finishing the kick, and reduce the number of times he flickers as he’s disappearing.
Here’s the clip from the original episode, run at half speed:
And here’s the edited version I used for the gif, also at half speed. Yeah, I sped the kick up too, but that’s not the important part:
This involved a fair amount of work going in and removing individual frames so that Goku would disappear quickly and smoothly.
And the final gif:
Shortening things also allows me to fit more action into a gif with a low file size, but the main point is to get things to move with a nice flow. Eliminating any pause in the motion is key if you want to show something happen in only a few seconds.
This was a gif where Goku kicks Buu and then Buu goes flying. In the show, Goku pauses after kicking, but I wanted to shorten that so that the shot of Buu flying backwards can better carry the momentum from Goku’s kick.
Instead of having Goku stay in place, I have him immediately “teleport” out as he’s finishing the kick, and reduce the number of times he flickers as he’s disappearing.
Here’s the clip from the original episode, run at half speed:
And here’s the edited version I used for the gif, also at half speed. Yeah, I sped the kick up too, but that’s not the important part:
This involved a fair amount of work going in and removing individual frames so that Goku would disappear quickly and smoothly.
And the final gif:
Shortening things also allows me to fit more action into a gif with a low file size, but the main point is to get things to move with a nice flow. Eliminating any pause in the motion is key if you want to show something happen in only a few seconds.
This is footage from 5 consecutive episodes that I edited together about a year ago. Now that I've got some experience I decided to try turning all 16 seconds of it into a < 3MB gif.
I went with a lower resolution and image quality than usual, but I still kept it at 25 fps and 256 colors.
I went with a lower resolution and image quality than usual, but I still kept it at 25 fps and 256 colors.
