Bobbin’ and weavin’ (and let the good get even), originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
Bob takes cover behind a car in a Heat themed Gun Crazy GIF celebrating DS106 GIFfest. There’s a lot of crazy gun action in Heat that I’m sure can be sampled for an animated gif. This animated gif sampled a shot from the gun battle in the street scene. I particularly like how the camera mirrors Bob’s movement from behind the car.
Automated holster action from Robocop, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
Automated holster action from Robocop for a Gun Crazy GIF celebrating DS106 GIFfest. Robo’s gun spinning and holstering sequence is reminiscent of a Sheriff in a Western. A lone (rebuilt) lawman responsible for cleaning up the town.
Kaneda gets Gun Crazy, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
An Akira themed Gun Crazy GIF for DS106 GIFfest (Extended).
Shotaro Kaneda gets Gun Crazy while battling Tetsuo Shima.
The other morning I was out aiming for some photos of the fresh snow on the pines in my back yard- my timing was good as a passing jet was scratching the sky with contrails, and in a flash I aimed to angle a photo with it in the background of a branch.
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
Boom when I saw that in my stream, I said, this has to be GIFfed, making an animation from a single photo. It looked like something was shooting right out of that pine tree.
Woah, see even in Arizona, the pine trees are armed with pistols! I don’t know whether to put this GIF in for Gun Crazy GIFs or GIFFing Impossible! so I am tossing it in both.
This is where it helps to think in stacked layers. I knew I wanted to make the contrail emerge from behind the pine branch. So I copied the left upper corner (the pine branch) to the top layer. I then lasso selected around the contrail, and cut that from the background layer to its own middle layer.
I used the magic wand (reduced tolerance to 4) to select and subtract the blue around it. Back on the bottom layer, I clone brushed the blue background to cover where the contrail existed, so I had a solid blue background.
From the top layer, I used a small eraser brush, and just brushed out some of the blue around the leading edge of the branches where I wanted the contrail to emerge.
In the animation palette, I used convert Layers to Frames, to get a three framed animation. I turned on all layers in all frames, and slid the contrail layer to the left, so it as tucked in behind the top layer pine branch. I used copy frames, then paste frames (after) to extend the animation to 11 frames. I then went frame by frame, and moved the contrail a bit tot he right in each frame, so it moved along the horizontal, and then passed off the right side of the screen.
I set each frame to 0.1 seconds, except the first one I set to a full second.
This one came in at only 73 Kb! That’s because of using layers with small bits per layer, but also the large areas of solid blue compress well in GIF.
So when you are in Arizona, keep in mind that even the trees are packing heat! And not the “dry kind of heat”!
Two guys and their Miniguns, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
A Minigun themed Gun Crazy GIF for DS106 GIFfest (Extended).
With its rotating barrel, cascading cartridges and dramatic muzzle flash the Minigun seems to be the weapon of choice for movie characters who need to battle against great odds. Terminator 2: Judgement Day and The Matrix are two of the many films that feature a Minigun.
Here’s an old gold gif, 1903 old, taken from Edwin Porter’s The Great Train Robbery.
It is easy to see how this image inspired a similar shot in Gun Crazy, which you can see as a GIF below.
The 1950 film Gun Crazy has been on my mind a bit these days, particularly the first scene wherein the protagonist steals a gun from the local hardware store.
The 1950 film Gun Crazy has been on my mind a bit these days, particularly the first scene wherein the protagonist steals a gun from the local hardware store. The whole film centers around the morbid fascination with guns in the U.S., and I wanted to see if I couldn’t capture that spirit with a montage GIF.
This is not to celebrate gun culture but its representation and role in film.
