I really enjoyed this one. My inspiration came from those old Florida (I probably blatantly ripped this one off to be honest: http://www.inspiredgoodness.com/storage/ct_greetings_florida.jpg) For this one I got to do two of my favorite things. Scour dafont.com for new fonts and look at pictures of space. I used Italic Bricks http://www.dafont.com/italic-bricks.font and Chocolate Dealer http://www.dafont.com/chocolate-dealer.font […]

Vintage photos are pretty cool things to play with, and they are all in the public domain so you can use them! I got my photo from here – go here to see the before as well http://mementomori-stock.deviantart.com/art/Vintage-lady-and-flowers-004-348279962 So I said this was a tutorial but the only tools I used were the free select […]

Hello headless! I am starting off the year with a tutorial on faking a wood engraving! Please try and contain your excitement. This is a very simple tutorial. I got the wood from Deviantart here: http://blank77.deviantart.com/art/Wood-Grain-24243045 Deviantart has excellent stock images, just make sure you check the creative commons license (or the creator’s comments on […]

I’m all about subtlety in gifs lately. This one I call “Exercise in the clone tool” because that’s 99% of what I used here. I really wanted to try and make a static image be animated as “real” as possible, which is easier said than done. I probably could have done more little animations, maybe […]

I don’t know if these posters technically count as ds106 assignments, but it was way too cool for me to pass up. The spider was made by me in gimp (I know, it looks so real). The awesome poster is by Michael Branson Smith - hopefully he doesn’t mind the riff!

  With the start of the headless approaching, I’m gearing up to get involved as much as I can while working full time. What got me thinking about writing this blog post was the unfortunate Tweet-delete incident where all of my tweets after 2011 magically disappeared.  1,000 posts gone, lost in a blink of an […]

Once I saw that it was vader we’d be animating, I had to give it a shot. I used the clone tool to hide the lights and make them look like they were flashing. I also used the hue/saturation tool on the little yellow light to make it look like it was glowing – I […]

Took a little break to make a Dum-Dum wiggle Thanks to Tina for the 3D app reccomendation https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/3d-camera/id316966270?mt=8

Okay so I’m doing them out of order. This one was really easy, I just filmed myself writing on a whiteboard, opened the video up in MPEG Streamclip, exported as an image sequence and ta-da! I did delete a LOT of the frames though (there were 1,000!) so that may be why it’s a little […]

Inspired by an article that Jim shared (http://societeperrier.com/articles/create-and-repeat-an-animated-gif-tribute-to-andy-warhol/) I really wanted to create something strange. Flower images from http://www.clker.com/search/flower/1 Shark image from...

You know, I really scrambled my brain to try and think of a good gif for this challenge. I ended up calling my old friend Benedict to ask for his advice on what to do. He said that what it all boiled down to was a just a good ol fashioned plain gif. I wouldn’t […]

I had a grand plan to create a gif that looked very drawn on, to convey the part of ds106 that I loved the most.  I was going to then apologize for how this gif actually turned out, but then decided that I wouldn’t.  It’s rough around the edges and it reminds me of some […]

Is it weird that I immediately thought of Beetlejuice when I saw this assignment?  Maybe it’s that lasso-arm dance move and the hip shaking, who knows. This was sorta painstaking because I had to copy it frame by frame into another gif, but all things considering I don’t think it looks too shaky or off-center. […]

I decided to get in on the August animated gif challenge for the upcoming ds106 course. I have to admit I was a bit disturbed at the idea of decapitating myself, hence why this gif is a little late. The hardest part was recreating my shoulder – I just used the clone tool and my […]