Original Assignment

GIF with GIPHY

I must say, creating my first GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, was much easier than I thought, thanks to GIPHY’s programming system that was made for a computer amateur like me. All I had to do was visit GIPHY’s site, click the “Create” button, copy the URL of YouTube clip that I wanted to use, and decide the “Start time,” “Duration,” and “Caption” for my GIF.

I thought that this was definitely an effective and efficient way to create GIFs and that I intend to make GIFs more often especially for PowerPoint presentations, to highlight my introduction and conclusion. My story here is that the caption, “Moose!” pretty much sums up the reaction of general population since sighting of a moose in one’s backyard is a rare thing these days.

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For this animated GIF assignment, you have to take a video of an animal doing something funny and turn it into a GIF! This assignment is worth 1.5 stars. 

The best site I found for creating a GIF is GIPHY. First, find the video you want to use. I found this one on Youtube:

Upload this video to the GIPHY website

Then choose when to start the video and the duration:

Upload the GIF to your computer or embed it into different media forms! Good luck!

Animals Doing Funny Things – “Find any thing that has something to do with an animal doing something funny. Turn it into a GIF!” http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/animals-doing-funny-things/

Tutorial:

1. Figure out the subject of your GIF
2. Find video on YouTube to use
3. Upload video on https://makeagif.com/
4. Figure out where you want the GIF to start and end
5. Make sure the GIF is short and makes sense then SAVE
6. Click picture and make sure it’s a GIF after upload onto website

Here is yet another post involving cats because obviously I just really love animals (mostly cats and my dog). So for this I just looked up a short cat fail video because that was basically what I did all during this past school year when I got stressed. I had to start the GIF a little later in the video because at first the cat was just sort of sitting there looking around. As for the end of the GIF I ended it a few seconds after the fall. I could have just had the fall and it would look like a funny loop but I feel like there is more character, more of a story, with more before and after the fall.

This GIF is just about a very fluffy cat that just wants to be able to fly with the birds (so he can eat them of course). I’ll call him Garfield. Garfield knows his owner is watching closely as he is about to take off. He wants to make his owner proud. Garfield also wants to live out his dream in the clouds among the flock. How cool would that be? To not only be able to fly, but to be able to actively chase the birds in the air AND catch them for dinner. What a life! So Garfield decides to gauge how high up to jump, bobbing his head up a few times, and then prepare his legs for the jump. A shake of the butt, and phew he’s off! Garfield is flying! Wait… now Garfield is… falling? THUNK! Maybe Garfield will stick to flying only in his dreams. And cut back on the lasagna.

My first ever GIF!

The task: create a gif of an animal doing something funny

My gif:

I choose to make a gif of an animal fail. I went with penguins because (in case you missed it the other 400 times I mentioned it) they are my favorite animal. I chose to make this segment of the video because I think it amusing for several reasons. First, penguins are so stinking adorable. Also, I am SUPER impressed that he (I don’t really know if it’s a boy or a girl) was able to jump that high to begin with. That rock it at the same height as his head… that is like a person being able to jump over 5 feet into the air. I also think this is funny because he just picked a terrible place to try to jump. His rock of choice 1) is slanted and 2) has very little landing space. Hopefully he will learn from his mistakes and make a better landing choice next time.

How it was made:

I created this gif using a YouTube video and the giphy website.

The website was incredibly simple to use. I simply followed the onscreen directions and pasted in the YouTube link.

Then I isolated the section I wanted for the gif

and copied the provided link in order to embed it into WordPress.

Note: I had to use the WordPress add media tool. I was not able to just copy the URL into the post.

This is my final blog post for the ds106 assignments but I’m sure I’ll be back!

For my final assignment I have to end on a light note, and what’s better than a funny gif of a dog?!

Animals doing funny things is the assignment i chose because who doesn’t love watching animals barking at window wipers and trying to carry a big stick through a small door?! I love dogs, I’m definitely more of a dog person that a cat person, sorry cat people…
Also, this dog is carrying out my ultimate dream, running through a big pile of leaves! Who wouldn’t want to do that?!

I’ve done a similar assignment to this one before called ‘Grease is the Word‘ based on my favourite movie; Grease.

I made this video by watching a lot, and i mean a lot, of funny dog video’s, these are all over Youtube and Facebook. Then the hardest part was to chose just one video, this was a lot harder than you’d thinks, there was a lot more video’s to chose from than i would like to admit.
So after watching way too many video’s of dogs, I finally cut down to one video I wanted to chose, however, unfortunately it was a montage of 10 videos…

If you fast forward to 2:31 that was my final chose, a little shitzu running through some leaves. The run up was another little shitzu swinging on a chair looking like the happiest most relaxed dog ever, at 56 seconds.

Now i could load it into a converter, I have to admit now that I’m not an expert with video’s and pictures and can’t make a  gif from scratch, however, if you would like to do so ‘GIZMODO‘ shows you how. Although I did use make a gif, so i uploaded my chosen video and selected the start time and duration of the video, because this is a gif i decided the video had to be very short and no longer than 4/5 seconds. I chose the duration of my gif to be 3 seconds, so no unneeded content was in it.

And done! All that was left to do was download it and it was ready to go, a good cheer me up for a rainy day.