The ds196 GIFfest is going wild! And a bunch are taking on the Muppets challange including @noispreofessor @timmmmyboy and Michael Branson Smith who launched this one.
I like the Rodney Dangerfield Muppets, the ones who get no respect, and who gets less respect than Beaker?
Bring on the GIFness!
How can I resist the siren call of the animated GIF when Michael Branson Smith tempts me with a Muppet GIF assignment? I cannot. I chose the opening frames from my favorite Muppet movie of all time, The Muppets Take Manhattan. Special tribute to GNA‘s triumphant return to Fredericksburg less than 2 weeks from now!
Together again
Gee, it’s good to be together again
I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone!
It’s not starting over, it’s just going on!
The Swedish Chef has always been one of my favourite Muppet characters, and so when MBS (@mbransons) posted Animated GIF Assignment 856: Muppet GIFs, I was quick to start with The Chef.
This source video is posted on YouTube by MuppetsStudio. In it, the Chef seems to be making both popcorn shrimp (?), and regular popcorn, all to the tune of that pre-MOOC Disco 1972 song Popcorn by Hot Butter.
My copy of MPEG StreamClip wouldn’t download the video (it might be an issue with Mountain Lion and AppleMPEG2Codec.component, although it seems to be present in the Library/Quicktime/ directory), and neither would my free copy of the Fastest Free YouTube Downloader. Nuts. However, a quick search of the web produced MacX YouTube Downloader, and that did the trick just fine.
Choosing which segment of the clip to animate was difficult. There were two or three points where I thought I might be able to get a good, close-to-seamless loop, but in the end, I opted for a number of different selections. You might want to tell me which one works best for you.
The first GIF: Drumming on the Counter
Drumming on the Counter, interval of 0.1 sec per frame
The second GIF: The Big Dance
The Chef’s BIG Dance (1.8 MB)
The third GIF: Fingers Up
Swedish Chef Fingers Up dance segment
The fourth GIF: Fingers Up Shortened
Swedish Chef, Fingers Up dance segment (short)
Maybe these are too close to video captures and too far from the cinematic / moving still style, but I think they capture the spirit and energy of the Swedish Chef. I tweaked the timing of the last two GIFs — they were going really fast, so I set the interval to 0.1 seconds per frame, and they view better now in Safari.
From where I am sitting right now, however, I can see the Chef sharpening up his knife for Cårven Der Pümpkîn. Perhaps I’ll post another one of these shortly.
Bork, bork, bork.
How can I resist the siren call of the animated GIF when Michael Branson Smith tempts me with a Muppet GIF assignment? I cannot. I chose the opening frames from my favorite Muppet movie of all time, The Muppets Take Manhattan. Special tribute to GNA‘s triumphant return to Fredericksburg less than 2 weeks from now!
Together again Gee, it’s good to be together again I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone! It’s not starting over, it’s just going on!
How can I resist the siren call of the animated GIF when Michael Branson Smith tempts me with a Muppet GIF assignment? I cannot. I chose the opening frames from my favorite Muppet movie of all time, The Muppets Take Manhattan. Special tribute to GNA‘s triumphant return to Fredericksburg less than 2 weeks from now!
Together again Gee, it’s good to be together again I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone! It’s not starting over, it’s just going on!
How can I resist the siren call of the animated GIF when Michael Branson Smith tempts me with a Muppet GIF assignment? I cannot. I chose the opening frames from my favorite Muppet movie of all time, The Muppets Take Manhattan. Special tribute to GNA‘s triumphant return to Fredericksburg less than 2 weeks from now!
Together again Gee, it’s good to be together again I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone! It’s not starting over, it’s just going on!
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