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BRIANNA HILDEBRAND AS AURORA “RORY” MORNINGSTAR

EDITING EVOLUTION: MISCHA alternative title: here’s to two ships I don’t ship anymore, a ship I will forever love (can you figure out which are which?), a queen, and the ORIGINAL OUTER BANKS!!!!! FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THAT SHOW IS A BRAZILIAN KIDS’ SHOW CALLED “JUACAS” AND IT WAS WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY WOMEN!!!! IT’S ABOUT SURFING AND FRIENDSHIPS AND IT’S SOOOOO GOOD. PLS WATCH IT!!!!!!!!!

but now, back to my editing evolution, thanks for tagging, cece :) @gillespiecharlie

So, what happened? Well, I definitely cut the brightness. I definitely said adiós to pale colorings and I also said chau to bright, oversaturated gifs. The hyperfixation on creating contrast mostly led to very unclean, unnatural gifs. And to people receiving very weird skin tones. While I still enjoy playing around with colors now, my gifs are cleaner now, more natural. I do still love a bit of color manipulation but... only to a certain extent. I also have found my love for more dark-ish gifs. And I definitely enjoy not having #fff or #000 anywhere. I prefer uncontrasted, smoother colors nowadays as well as more nuded, harmonizing tones. You can tell that somewhere between 2017-2018 (in 2017, I started giffing for Soy Luna - a small fandom that didn’t offer any psds to me, which led to me having to do colorings from scratch), I found MY style that I still have nowadays. Every now and then I make a very colorcoded gifset or do a bright gifset, but in general, my gifsets have taken a more natural path. I’m certain a person or two might even like my old coloring style more, since it’s bright and colorful... I think I did, in the past. But I honestly would never go back to it. I also did gradient layers like 4-5 years ago, it was popular back then on tumblr. I don’t freaking have a clue why tumblr brought this trend back now. Don’t get me wrong, there’s some artsy gifsets out there using gradient colorings - but the majority are just unnecessarily oversaturated. I would personally never go back to it. It also tends to whitewash or orangewish people of color. Giffing is a neverending learning process, so... to the next 6 years of creating content.

P.S.: in case you were wondering, the 2014-2016 gifs are taken from my old blog @bloodymischa.