{"id":2175,"date":"2013-08-11T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2013-08-14T23:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T04:26:59","slug":"ewwww-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockylouproductions.com\/blog_wp\/2013\/08\/11\/ewwww-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ewwww… Brain!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"3DGIF_SharkBoy\"<\/a>

Ewww… Brain! Scene from “Shark Boy and Lava Girl”<\/p><\/div>\n

Talky Tina’s DS106 animated GIF<\/a> challenge August 2013 GIF Challenge #10: Monster Chiller Horror Theatre 3D Style GIF<\/a>\u00a0for today was\u00a0to:<\/p>\n

…look for a part of a scene in a\u00a03D type movie\u00a0<\/strong>where the thing comes right out of the screen at you. \u00a0Find a way to emphasize the moving of the thing out of the screen and into your face in a GIF.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"3DGIF_SharkBoy\"<\/a>

Ewww… Brain<\/p><\/div>\n

This one was easy. \u00a0I started with a YouTube search on 3D movies. \u00a0A bunch of movie trailers popped up right away, which I knew would have the good stuff. \u00a0Sharkboy & Lava Girl- May The Best Dream Win<\/a>\u00a0won.<\/p>\n

I’ve just recently discovered the wonders or the full Photoshop CS5 software for creating GIFs. [Technology is Great! (When it works.)<\/a>] \u00a0But as ‘luck” would have it, I have a 64-bit operating system on my PC based laptop and Photoshop won’t allow me to import video frames as layers unless I use a 32-bit OS. \u00a0Arrrrgh! \u00a0That meant I had to do some unexpected futzing around.<\/p>\n

I downloaded the video clip using the downloader add-on for Firefox and placed it into Adobe Premiere Elements on my Mac. \u00a0From there I selected the short segment I wanted to use and exported it as a sequence. [ “Hula Hot Seat” will step you through the process.<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Since I am using both a PC and a Mac, (different software versions are at the moment residing on different computers.) I uploaded the JPEGs to my Google drive so that I could transfer them easily from computer to computer as needed.<\/p>\n

I imported the photos into the full Photoshop on my PC, but again hit a bit of a snag because I couldn’t figure out how to easily move each of individual photo images into a new layer in one consolidated project file to be used to create the GIF. \u00a0I ended up tiling 10 images at a time and dragging each layer over. But oh no… does the fun end there? \u00a0Of course not! When I did the moves manually like that they were not aligned properly, and I had to go back in and manually align all 40 images layers. \u00a0Fortunately, I hadn’t messed with the formatting of the images, so the snap function for alignment kicked in and it went rather smoothly, all things considered.<\/p>\n

The final step was to create the animation layers. \u00a0There was no need for merging of layers, as I wasn’t adding anything to the original image clip, and that alone made the project much less complicated than:<\/p>\n