I decided to create an animated TXT GIF (worth 3 stars) for my first collaborative character assignment this week. The assignment entailed creating a GIF that shows two contradicting thoughts in 2 or more frames which I think mine does exactly that.
I chose Megan Rosengrant’s Victoire Absinthe as the collaborative character for this first assignment because she and Lawrence have a history (that is shown in the radio show).  And because Lawrence is the kind of man he is…the GIF does his mindset justice. I decided to add pictures to show that it was, in fact, Victoire (which her hair may look blonde in the picture above but it’s just that lighting, it’s really brown).
I got the second image off of google from pinterest and the first image is actually a photoshopped version of two different pictures…
I used the pixlr photo editing application to combine the pictures into one. As for the text…I used Microsoft word. I created a text box then used the “shape” tool to create a rectangle that was the same size as the text box. I chose a font that was big enough and found one that had a nice shadow. I also changed the color of the rectangle and the text to make it more noir-like.
This was my very first GIF so I’m pretty proud of it even though it may not be too fantastic! 3 stars down for the week, only 7 more to go!
