your gifs are soo pretty and crystal clear 😭 you don't have any sharpening tutorials by any chance? 😇 i feel like even with the best quality gifs they don't turn out as sharp as i want them to sometimes
thank you! i don't have any tutorials, but i do sharp just like most of gifmakers here i think: smart sharpen - basic, setting by default, amount 10%, radius 10, remove gaussian blur, more accurate. then add more smart sharpen - basic, setting by default, amount 500%, raidus 0.3 (if i make big gifs most of the times i prefer add more sharp, so just do 0.4), remove gaussian blur, more accurate. that's literally it, no magic really
huge part of how good end result will be is how good of a video source you have in the first place, anything else than 1080p is gonna be meh. tho some 1080 files aren't good enough either, like if it's video from YT or from streaming sites (like netflix, their quality is often atrocious)
I can’t explain what blue eye samurai makes me feel…….its a typical revenge story, a man sets out on his hero’s journey to kill the four men who have wronged him. A lone ronin, wide brimmed hat and sword in hand, roaming Edo Japan on his vendetta. But he’s not a man. He’s a woman. And how has he been wronged? What’s she getting revenge on?
On the fact that she exists. She wants revenge on the four white men that could possibly have conceived her. Who got her Japanese mother pregnant with a blue-eyed child. And not just any blue-eyed child, but a girl child. How is she possibly supposed to live in the world like that? For the wrong of being conceived, for the wrong of being born, for the wrong of being birthed into a world that will never love or accept her, she will kill her father.
I don’t know what level of convoluted self hate that is. Is she a child of rape? Or a child of a whore? Halfway through I realise what she told herself at the start couldn’t possibly be true - it’s not really for her mother. Her mother wasn’t the root of her vendetta, she wasn’t really doing it for her. When she leaves that farm and leaves the chance to live a simple, legitimate life as a woman, she goes right back to hunting down the men. Those men personally wronged her.
And then there’s so much to be discussed surrounding the way she grew up, because as a boy child and a man she can afford so much more than life has dealt her. Her swordfather who took her in out of the love and care in his heart had no shame in teaching a mixed man his art. The face of a ‘demon’ is fine. But not the identity of a woman. Shh. Don’t say it. Don’t confess. He knows and doesn’t want to hear it.
And because she’s lived that way her entire life for safety and security, she’s so completely alienated from being a woman, perhaps she really is he. But not really by choice. Or is it? The thing she does best is the art of killing, the art of men. Gender is a prison and gender is a performance and she has to choose which to perform. The times cannot reconcile hatred and violence with a woman. So she lives as a man.
So she can get revenge on her father, for revenge on herself.
hii, ages ago i made a simple but customisable character page to try and get the hang of html and css, so i thought i'd release it. all of the instructions are within the code!
the code will look like the first pic when you put it in your page but you can play around with it to get different looks.
i tried to make it as beginner friendly as possible so even if you have no code knowledge you should be able to follow it :) but if not, don't hesitate to send me an ask!