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50 Eggs: A GIF story
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I chose to extract my GIF from “Cool Hand Luke” starring Paul Newman. I highly recommend the movie, and without ruining it, the above GIF is from a scene where Luke, Paul Newman’s character, is eating 50 hard-boiled eggs as part of a bet he made and the whole prison population has money on either his success or failure. I originally intended to use a different scene, where Luke says “Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand,” after bluffing his way into winning a prison poker match, but it was too long and I opted for a scene that ...
Creating my First GIF
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I’m just going to say it right now that creating a Gif was the hardest thing I did this week. I did a lot of research on how to do this and downloaded a ton of different software to figure it out. First thing I saw before I even started thinking about how to make my own gif was Martha’s twitter post about first UMW student (I believe the student’s name was Alex Spangler). So I clicked on the link to the blog and read a little about how his made his gif. I also found the tutorial on the ...
Creating my First GIF
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I’m just going to say it right now that creating a Gif was the hardest thing I did this week. I did a lot of research on how to do this and downloaded a ton of different software to figure it out. First thing I saw before I even started thinking about how to make my own gif was Martha’s twitter post about first UMW student (I believe the student’s name was Alex Spangler). So I clicked on the link to the blog and read a little about how his made his gif. I also found the tutorial on the ...
Flash Gordon Approaching
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About 15 years ago, my uncle introduced me to my favorite “its so bad its good” movie. The movie was Flash Gordon (1980 version). I liked it so much as a kid that my uncle eventually gave me my own VHS copy to wear out. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/ This .gif I made is from one of the final scenes in the movie in which our hero, Flash, joins forces with Prince Vultan and his Hawkmen in a final assault on Emperor Ming’s palace. During the attack you can hear pieces of the Flash Gordon theme song by Queen. I found the process ...
Lydia got an A, so I made a Gif
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So, I made a Gif. I didn’t even know what a Gif was really. But after many hours of frustration and trial and error I made a gif and know what one is. But that seems to be what ds106 is about, learning by trial and error to create something that is interesting as well as a reflection of your unique style. So this week our assignment was to make a Gif of a scene from our favorite or least favorite movie. I chose the final scene from Beetlejuice where everyone is happy and getting along and Lydia gets ...
my somewhat gif (hopefully)
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I did two because I found the process a lot more fun than I thought I would. Jim Groom’s guide was beyond helpful to me. I downloaded mpeg streamclip and gimp and after the first time of following the directions, I was able to guide myself through the second one. I am not sure how to get the quality better in the top one (it looks kind of more like a painting with all the shading going on) but I will try to troubleshoot it this weekend. I chose Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban because I love that ...