I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like
dump.fm,
tumblr etc. so am quite tuned in to the glitchy/kitschy side of GIF culture. How theoretical have people got on these wonders of the web? How does one trace the history of an animated GIF?
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posted by 0bvious
on May 16, 2011 -
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I'm looking for a program that will let me quickly edit animated gifs. I'm looking to do things like combine two gifs together, applying color changes dynamically across all frames (like hue shifts and stuff), basic tweening of objects maybe... I've been using Photoshop and Imageready and haven't been impressed.
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posted by codacorolla
on Oct 25, 2010 -
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Anyone know of a way to get Firefox to disable animated GIFs by default, then enable them by pressing the ESC key?
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posted by aerotive
on Oct 17, 2010 -
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ImageReady / Photoshop doesn't let you 'tween' a rotation. Any software that does?
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posted by Jezztek
on Oct 12, 2008 -
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I'm going to try making some 3D wiggle pictures, like
Jim Gasperini's. There's a how-to on assembling the digital images into animated .GIFs
here, and a MeFi thread
here, but I have a question about taking the pictures themselves. I don't have a special stereo camera. I'm going to try using two disposable cameras strapped to a ruler in parallel, with me manually snapping both shutters at the same time.
Here's the question:
How far apart should the cameras (lenses) be?
posted by scarabic
on Aug 25, 2004 -
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