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fereldanwench · 1 year

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got in A Mood and decided to browse my edits tag

a few thoughts/observations/rambles:

i've had this specific blog since 2016 and i've been doing various screenshots, gifs, moodboards, etc since i made it almost exactly 7 years ago. i have 109 pages in my mine: edits tag: - 54 of those pages are from 2016-2021 and encompass about half a dozen or so fandoms. - the other 55 pages? run from july 2021 until now and are almost exclusively cyberpunk (and more specifically, almost exclusively valerie and/or goro). the amount of ~*content*~ i made over the course of 5 years for 6-10 fandoms is almost the exact same amount of ~*content*~ for one game in the span of about a year in a half? like damn. if that doesn't just perfectly capture the brainrot.

it was very heartwarming and enlightening looking at some of my OCs/ships that i consider more or less "retired" at this point, like my ryder and jaal or my inquisitor and cullen. it was nice looking through all those sets again and having some warm fuzzies and seeing how they influenced later OCs/ships but also being content to be like yeah, that's it. we had good times, but we moved on just like we needed to.

on the flipside, it was also interesting going through some of them and seeing the OCs/ships that I'd like to revisit at some point. or possibly rework into cyberpunk. i think i could see some themes i had wanted to explore with my sole survivor acting as a foundation to really develop valerie's mother, whomst i haven't talked much about here but i have a lot of thoughts on. (although audrey (sole) and ava (valerie's mother) are kind of the antithesis of each other in that audrey never wanted a kid and wanted to pursue a career but ended up living the opposite whereas ava wanted a kid and felt pushed into the corporate world BUT ANYWAY I DIGRESS)

it was also kind of cool for me to see how my screenshot/vp style developed over the years. i wasn't even familiar with the term "virtual photography" until cyberpunk--i just thought of it as fucking around with a flycam and taking screenshots. the 'photography' element didn't even really click with me. but i can see where some of the stuff i was doing 6-7 years ago, even with moodboards, definitely influenced how i approach vp in cyberpunk.

and number/performance-talk, because even if i make stuff for me, i still think it's interesting to take note of trends and whatnot: - i definitely experienced a pretty noticeable drop off in notes post-2018 and the great tiddy purge. that shit really hit hard, damn - i remember in past fandoms i often felt like stillshots didn't get nearly as much love as gifsets (especially gaming scenery gifsets), and based on my own stuff, that does seem to track. i think the two big exceptions for me there were mass effect andromeda and now cyberpunk. which are very pretty games with very pretty characters and compatible with decent cinematic tools so idk, maybe they just work better in that format than, like, muddy potato-y dragon age origins, lmao.

anywhoooooo i also filled my queue up with some old posts so get ready for some vintage wench content over the next few days uwu

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sugarplumsfairy · 2 years

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1, 3, 22, 26, 33 for the gifmaker ask thingy 💗

angel ❤️ thank you

1. How did you get into graphics / gif making?

back in ol' 2012, i saw very few people were making gifsets of whose line is it anyway...something had to be done. OI. but i think i started off with sherlock gifsets as well, i can't remember too well. but yeah

3. Who/what inspires your graphics / gifs?

mmmmmm, i haven't thought of that actually. I think seeing all the different kinds of gifsets/gifmaking styles have inspired me–in the sense that compared to 10 years ago, there's so much more we can do with these edits. Or, if i find something pretty, or funny–I'll gif it.

22. What is your biggest improvement since you started making graphics and or gifs?

finding larger files made a world of a difference!! compared to my gifs from before my hiatus, my gifs are much, much smoother in motion. and nowadays i have better grasp of coloring/color wheel/principles of color so when i go to actually make these gifsets, i have a better idea of what i'm doing.

26. Give a graphic and or gif maker a quick tip!

screencapping is sooooooooo much easier than converting video to frames! you have more control over the shots/scenes you choose to gif/edit

33. Give us a quick explanation of how you make a graphic / gif?

alrighty!! this is the tutorial i use that contains the action i mention later on.

1. download the file (i always go for 1080p with files sizes >5gb and preferable >10gb. Remux is best, and you don't have to use 4k files since they're a pain)

2. screencap using mpv

3. use a script to bring my screen caps to the photoshop timeline

4. use the action in the linked tutorial above to convert my frames into a workable smart object, and to sharpen the gif

5. then i color! (lots of experimentation here) however, depending on the size of the file/number of frames in the gif, I will crop the gif and resize it to 540px –when i do this first, my photoshop works much smoother when i go to color

6. i first use levels, curves then super-saturate the gif and and adjust if the lighting in the scenes used is ugly (lmao) one thing i recommend is just playing around with the different properties.

7. i always make sure that no matter how i edit my gifs, that skin colors remain intact (there are tutorials out there for this too–especially for preventing dark skin from looking orange)

8. Save for web – and make sure the gif is lower than 9.99mb! This actually takes me the most amount of time lol

and that's that ! If i'm doing subtitles, that's the last thing i do after coloring. and i almost always do arial, bold and italic, and sharp!

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#<3333 #thank you angel!#asks #angel tag

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