I wanted to go out of my comfort zone with the six starts of visual assignments we had to do this week!

I started by doing the Assignment called “256 Points” where you create a picture using a 16×16 pixel square. I was a little stuck at first about how to create a picture that would just use 16×16 pixels, but then I did some Googling and was all set!

I used the website Pixilart
to create my image. In order to keep with the apocalyptic theme of our class, I wanted to make a picture of a meteor hitting a city skyline. I don’t know that it is the clearest, but I feel like once I say what it is you can tell.

The second post I did was worth another three starts and completed my needed 6. I completed the “Where Did the Soda Go?” assignment where you are supposed to make a gif showing how bad the acting in infomercials are.

I downloaded the 4k video converter from this week’s list of assignments to get the YouTube video I wanted.

I decided to go with the “Dumbest As Seen On TV Items Ever” for the video to take my clip from. I then used the website GIPHY to create my gif to share with the world.

Where Did The Soda Go? – 2 Stars

After making a gif in an earlier assignment I realized how easy they were so I decided to try my luck again. There is a popular sub on Reddit called “Where Did the Soda Go?” which parody the ridiculous nature of infomercials. I thought the most difficult aspect would be finding a video with a funny scene short enough to make into a gif. However, I quickly found a video that ticked all the boxes and was funnier than I had envisioned. I uploaded the video to MakeaGif.com and quickly had my gif. It’s So Slushy!

I chose this assignment because I wanted to see if I could take on a new challenge of video instead of just photos. This was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. Using the Hawaii chair infomercial as inspiration, I made a quick gif. I first saw this infomercial about a year ago. One of my professors showed it to me to represent a bad business venture. It was even funnier when Ellen did a demonstration on her show using the chair.

To start making the gif, I went to one of my favorite how to sources, Youtube. I knew that I could use Gimp to create it but I did not know how to actually download the video. So I searched that to. I found out that if you enter ss in the beginning of your youtube url, after the www., it will take you to a site to download videos. I downloaded the video to the KMPlayer.

After downloaded, I hit ctrl+G. That opened up the dialogue box pictured above. From there I started capturing the screenshots needed for the gif. Because the video was so long in length, it created over a hundred screen captures after a few seconds. I had to go through my files and delete the options I did not need. Next I opened GIMP.

In GIMP I went under the file tab and clicked “open as layers”. From there I selected all of the images that I kept from the KMPlayer. Then, as pictured above, I went to “Filters”, “Animation”, then “Playback”. From there all I had to do was save my gif.

I found out that to save a gif is not just as easy as clicking save as. I had to click export and add the .gif extension at the end. Finally my GIF was complete!

I learned all of the steps to create a gif from this video.

This gif is my second entry for the DS106 Visual Assignment, “Where Did The Soda Go?”, and the process for this one was the same process as the one I did for the Perfect Office Chair.

This gif was made from the infomercial for the Rollie Eggmaster. I named it college or caveman chef simply because what Rollie Eggmaster is trying to imply is that making eggs are so messy and hard to do that the result is like the above gif, which really looks like as though a freshman college who never drove a stroke at home is now discovering how eggs make their was from the fridge to the plate or more understandable how I could picture a caveman living under a rock, cooking for the first time in our era. I mean even the rest of the stove is just soooo over the top ridiculous.

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