Can’t decide which direction to go? Can’t remember which direction you went? Lost in a maze?

There are many contradicting thoughts that occur almost every single day. Personally, I am not very good directionally speaking so I constantly ask myself which way did I come from or which way should I go. In my head, I can hear “leftrightleftrightleftright”. For Bob Ross, he has to debate which side of the canvas to place a tree or house on. In Ross’s case, this usually works out in his favor, in mine not as much. For this Assignment bank, I chose to bring this contradicting thought to life and make it into a gif. I used GIPHY to make this gif since I was familiar with this website from ds101. It is pretty simple to use and allows you to edit your gifs pretty easily. I would highly recommend using this site and it also makes it super easy to embed into WordPress with the embed gif option.

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I used this gif-maker to help me make these gifs out of these images and videos.

I no longer have the original four photos used in this gif, but any images can work for a tutorial. To upload multiple images for a gif, you’ll have a select all of them all of them at once. You may need to resize the images to fit them all together so that they may fit together more smoothly. I personally did not shift any of the automatic delay that the website provided. I then pressed the make a gif button.

The story behind this gif is actually pretty funny. Sometimes whenever I answer a question, I either confidently say yes or no, then say the other one, then say maybe, then I don’t know. I mostly made this as a meme between me and my friends because some of my friends started doing this too. Usually, only one of us did it when we did not want to openly admit an answer to a question or we didn’t know how to answer. That’s pretty much it.

There’s some similar sets as the previous one. Upload, same as the previous one. The only thing I did was cut the video. To cut it, you have to input the time that you want to start your gif at and the time is the same for the end time. For example, for video, if you want to cut off the last 5 seconds, to mimic my video, you’ll need to start at 0 and end at 15.622 (for mine). Instead of doing 15.622 for the left number, and 20 for the second one. I don’t understand why it is the way but it just is.

One day, a cat demanded attention, as any cat does. It demands the best of scratches. The moment that you stop, it’ll look up to you with those demanding eyes that could kill. You have to apologize and continue scratching or else you might up perishing via laser beams. Once you resume, the cat’s gazes lowers as they relax to the touch. The world is once again safe for now. Who knows what would’ve happened if you didn’t continue to scratch. The best case, just your death, worst case, the end of the world!

As the third assignment I decided to do for this week, I chose to do the TXT Gifs assignment. The goal of the assignment is to make a GIF with 2 or more frames each with contradicting thoughts. I wanted to make it really fun, so I thought of a Magic Eight-Ball because what’s more contradicting than that? I had a lot of fun making this. Originally, I tried to design it on Photoshop but I ended up using Microsoft Word. Once the image was created, I used the website Giphy to make the animated GIF. Here is what I came up with…

This GIF assignment was a fun one.  It had me think of contrasting ideas that would make for a fun GIF.

I used two platforms for this assignment.  The first one I used was Snapchat.  Being a twenty year old girl, I am very familiar with snapchat and its functions.  One thing that makes it a good platform for creating simple images is its extensive bank of emojis and stickers, as well as its ability to lay text over any image.  I used the text tool to at the text “ily” (which is text-speak for I love you) in one image and “ily not” in another.  I then used the stickers and text tool to add various emojis of hearts around the “ily” text.

After I created my two images, I uploaded them into the app ImgPlay.  This allowed me to create a loop that alternates between the two images at a speed of my choice.  After messing with the speed settings, I saved my GIF to my phone’s library.

The end result is a cute, modern day take on the old phrase, “He loves me, he loves me not”.

I created a gif that had two opposite meanings, sometimes signs can be confusing but these are outright contradictory to each other!

I created this GIF using GIMP

“In 2 or more frames write a contradicting thought.” I did the words STAY and GO as my contradicting thought.