✨Gif Coloring✨
Hello everyone! After having a conversation with the lovely @bizarrelittlemew, and being inspired by her immaculate Gif-Coloring Post, I decided to follow suit with some examples of my own. I make this post to stand in solidarity with her, as well as all our fellow gif-makers, and to show that gif-making is in fact a very time-consuming process! It’s not as simple as feeding frames into a program and *poof*, you’re done. There are in fact numerous, numerous, numerous steps that go into beautifying footage for your viewing pleasure!
The “raw” footage is on the left (in quotations because it is still trimmed down, and the frame rate has been edited, but the original lighting/coloring remains), and my edited versions are on the right.
As you can see, quite a bit different lol! My process usually involves picking the scene, shortening said scene in my video editing program to the desired amount of frames, removing frame interpolation, cropping it down to the proper size, removing any fun little frame artifacts, playing around with the desired frame rate, before beginning to manipulate the lighting, levels, contrast, and colors. Then, I will often have to sharpen and blur to my liking, which is a whole process on its own, before fist-fighting Photoshop’s memory issues l m a o.
And even all of that does not account for what others may do, such as overlaying gifs within gifs, creating word art, working with geometric shapes, etc etc!
It’s a process, and it’s a form of art. And just as you wouldn’t re-post someone’s fanfic, someone’s video, or someone’s music, please don’t re-post gifs without credit! Reblog from the source, use the add gif function, or include the artist’s @ if needed be! It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s appreciated more than you know.
Support your artists, and we’ll be so happy to continue creating for you! <3
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when the snow is painted red, know that means we'll be together again (x)
[ » little snippet under the cut ]
Waiting.
Waiting for a train that never stops. Always passing by. Always empty.
Waiting until the snow stays atop the ground. He will make it happen. He promised.
Now they’re alone. Pink and blue fill the underground station but leave her hollow. The colours freeze on her skin, the cold ever-growing, threatening to swallow her whole. But she remains. Not daring to give up. He had asked her of it. As long as she shines for him, he will be there. He promised to give her everything of him.
But he broke it.
The passing train seems endless. There’s no noise, no wind that drags her hair along, that lets the soft fabric of her coat dance. It moves at high speed, yet time slows down.
When it does finally pass her, it reveals something on the other side of the railway. Her stomach drops at the sight.
Someone.
Waiting.
Everything goes black. Sól takes the device off her head. Like a flashlight, sight comes back to her. It strains her eyes, causing her to rub them harshly. Will she ever get used to this stupid thing?
“What did you see?” Harrison asks, arms crossed over his chest.
It’s always the same.
“Sofia?”
Sól drags her palms over her face, sighing heavily, “You said it shows me memories. I don’t know what I saw, but they aren’t true.”
“Maybe you refuse to remember him the way he truly was”, he says, making it sound more like a statement than a question. Truly? How could she not remember? The note, the gun, the cracked window, the air almost leaving her lungs. She swallows hard. And still, all she feels is confusion rather than pain.
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