*dramatic soap opera music*

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Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Learning how to gif! With extra proud-ness given that I (a) started from basically 0 knowledge of Photoshop save whatever remnants I remember from using GIMP like a decade ago, (b) generally don't consider myself as being any good with colours, and (c) managed to pull off pretty much every moderate-to-very unhinged gif idea I had, including some animations done from scratch.

Probably a whole 90% possibly more of everything I made was Zhou Shen because I'm single-minded like that (full gallery here!), with the rest scattered across various fandoms, starting with a particular SecUnit-favoured show…

( Murderbot, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon: Gif on Tumblr ) – logo design from Tor

( Word of Honor: Gif on Tumblr ) – more gifs in the tag


( The Legend of Luoxiaohei: Gifset on Tumblr ) – more gifs in the tag


( Project Sekai: Gifset on Tumblr )


( Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun: Gif on Tumblr ) – drawn and animated from scratch!


( Murderbot, All Systems Red: Gif on Tumblr ) – another one created from scratch!

All can be found in my gif tag on Tumblr, including some before/after comparisons and effect breakdowns if you're interested in the process.

(Non-fannishly, it'd be cooking! Which was a development I would never have seen coming.)

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OH YEAH After Effects is probably what I was thinking of!!

I hadn't done any animation stuff before this (…unless you count powerpoints…) so tbh I had trouble understanding the whole timeline/keyframe thing at first, especially since most Tumblr tutorials still use frame animation, but then once it clicked everything got so much easier… and then I proceeded to overtax it doing all this lol. It's surprising what you can do just using PS, though I feel like not many giffers take full advantage of it! Or possibly I just like fancy gif effects waaaaay too much.