#ray.doc

at the same time, however, telling me that gifmaking is sooo easy, that gifmakers getting their work stolen isn’t a big deal, that what we do is somehow less worthy of respect because we’re just “””recoloring footage””” or whatever fundamentally is a form of belittlement. i cannot tell you how sad it makes me to hear stuff like that because people who say such things have no idea what monumental barriers to entry there are to gifmaking. do you know what export settings are best for your computer specs? pattern, diffusion??? what dither and matte color does the gif require? do you want color selection to be done via adaptive or selective or with computer-built-in colors? what about when tumblr ultimately compresses your gifs and down-selects your colors? what settings are best then?? do these settings always hold true or is this only good for the gif you’re currently working on? do you hop on vpn to pirate footage?? do you torrent for hours only to find out it’s in a video format incompatible with your computer so you must also go and find a new video player that can play the footage you downloaded as well as a media encoder to export clips in a format your computer can read without compressing the video quality?? do you have enough space on your laptop for this??? do you need an external drive to support everything you’re doing? is this gif under 10mb?? how are you going to balance the number of frames with the number of colors with the gif dimensions to make it uploadable to tunglr dot com? what aspect of this gif are you sacrificing today to make it even viewable on this hellsite??? if you have a laptop that only lets you export in internal dimensions how will this impact the quality of your gif? do you need to double-quadruple the gif dimensions to keep the same resolution and therefore need to sacrifice even more frames or colors??? do you even HAVE access to photoshop or do you need to also pirate it in some way???!?!

challenge: from your creations, choose gifs and do a split of before and after adding your coloring. sorry about the confusing layout of the last gif lmfao. in order of appearance they come from: x, x, x, x, x

tagged by: the incredible incredible @winterfrosted and @holmesemrys. thank u both!!! i had so much fun doing this and also like this is my favorite thing i’ve ever been tagged in. i love showing ppl how much god damn work we put in to our sets.

commentary: i started posting on this url in the middle of high school. i basically posted for like 6 months straight and giffed mostly for yuri on ice the anime. then i left tumblr after the whole algorithm randomly flagging gifsets as p*rn and blocking ppl from seeing them thing, and now i am returning once again. it’s kinda hard to track progress when u have that big of a gap in creationing but i do think i’ve improved tremendously and i’m still doing my best to learn new things!

tagging: @nefeviibata, @sourpatchdean, @alivedean, @bluefirecas, @burnhamandtilly, @klinejack, @ccstiel, @cosmiccas, @deanglrl, @heavengate, @bisexualsam, @forthiswholeworld, @nuntox, @violetgrace, @haloless, @debriefingspn, + anyone who wants to do it!! this is a really cool tag game ;w; i tried to @ ppl who i think haven’t been already tagged/haven’t done this yet but no pressure and sorry if u already did this/already got tagged!!