In which the last of the gif challenges meets me free-associating after spotting this super neat tutorial:
Better-res static version under the cut, because gif export is hell on colours: ( bit too small for a wallpaper, though )
Or, more importantly: DALABENGBA ANNIVERSARY DAY!!
Truly iconic. So much so that I'm just gonna drop the video upfront, because this would be my submission for "things you'd like the whole world to witness At Least Once" – BUT if you're sensitive to flashing (especially red/blue) lights, check out the audio-only version instead!
And now, on with our irregularly-scheduled programming…
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Because it's just been that kind of week. Many thoughts head empty would like to become one with the nearest sofa cushion except it's too hot lately for that, etc. I haven't even gotten around to last weekend's 天赐 episode yet, except for that absolutely feral 算你狠 performance (though to be fair, I have watched it… well, a lot more than once……)
Also, I do need to get my gif folder under control at some point, that pest is reaching almost 30GB at this point because I refuse to delete my PSDs. (Fortunately I do have the storage to spare on my laptop, but still.)
In the meantime, various bits and bobs from earlier this week:
Re-bearified version of the banner I made for the 520 reverse exchange at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
sid_guardian, because Bears.
Zhou Shen gifset ft. blue gradient and overlays for week 3 of the March gif challenges – technically my first time Doing Colours On Purpose, and of course I had to make my own life difficult by trying to coherently combine gifs from 5 wildly-different-colouring videos. See comparison ( under the cut )
I don't often do draft versions of gifs these days, short of extremely elaborate layouts (…so basically that CM intro set), but it was called for in this case. (Tangentially, a fun read on the topic of white balance and colouring!)
On-the-commute-home-phonefic (or the opening three paragraphs thereof) owing to discussions on the Guardian server, which I have since realised could fill the DCU square on my bingo card if I could trap writing!brain back long enough to finish it out:
Except that I have trouble dialing things down to speed, but anyway – put together a quick guide to doing text wipes (or more generally keyframe animations) in gifs as requested by an anon-in-law!
Also, a very non-exhaustive list of gifs I've applied this to (it's a lot).
Me, seeing this week's gif challenge on composition: Oh, I've got to make this harder before my brain will take me up on The Shiny.
Also me, an untold storm of increasingly-unhinged ideas later: Did I forget about my bingo card? I forgot about my bingo card. Who put me in charge of my life decisions and why was that a dubious choice.
Fortunately, I finally recalled its existence (complete sidetrack: here's how it's going, by the way, and I could have a line if I'd just finish that ZYL-vs-YZ gifset already) along with the entirely coincidental "Suits" square at ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elenothar's very helpful egging-on-ery. And thus!
*tinny fanfare noise*
Two-piece appreciation of Shen Wei's very nice three-piece wardrobe! Heavily inspired by canary3d-obsessed's iconic Shen Wei Serving Lewks posts (also available to read on AO3). Along with So Much gratuitous text animation and geometry especially on the second one, because if nothing else what you should know about me is that I really like fancy effects. Even if they make my laptop throw a minor fans-on-overdrive hissy fit exporting them.
10/10 worth it though.
…yes, I know it's entirely not at all Saturday yet, but I need some kind of motivation to get through the remaining half day of work and right now that's thinking about this absolutely galaxy-brained edit from last year's 潮拜72小時 performance:
Original pic for comparison ( under cut )
because I do love my before/after contrasts. Also, the neon effect itself was borrowed from this photo-editing tutorial, but I think combining it with animation was pretty rad of me!This goes in a phone-wallpaper set with this rehearsal one (original pic) which may look familiar if you've seen me on Discord, and similarly the neon edit in my icon here and on Tumblr (original pic) though I didn't do a full-size edit of this one. Be the thematically-matching icons I want to see in the world XD
So, to put the decision after the fact, I've decided that biweekly (that's once every two weeks, thanks for nothing, English) is a good frequency for these posts, with some leeway to do mini-posts on the off weeks if anything too-interesting crops up before then.
…which should also obviously be titled Satur-Sun-day instead, but hey, no one has ever accused me of having any good sense of time!
( new songs! )
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( gifs! )
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( recs! )
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( and a watchlist )
ALSO: HAPPY 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO THE ICONIC PERFORMANCE THAT IS Baby До свидания!! Opera, pop, Chinese, Russian… what can't he do.
…no, that isn't actually the title of this one (not to say that my actual filenames are particularly sensical either) but it might as well be. Nefarious ideas, meet that one line from TGCF:
Also, in case you missed it: masterpost of gifset previews + links (prior to this set) has been posted to sid_guardian!
Uh. Some of us gif to cope?? I guess???? ( ramble bramble )
Aaaaaaanyway. Gifs! Gifsets! Two of them!
For this absolutely gorgeous line from Anne Carson's H of H Playbook, because it is Very Very Shen Wei:
And a pair of MDZS gifs coloured with just one adjustment tool each, for week 1 of lan-xichens' March challenges:
Also, on a tangential note: a thing I answered a while back with regards to gifs + my learning process, which I just recalled exists in the process of answering a different anon ask. ( further tangent )
ETA: Masterpost of gifset previews + links now up at sid_guardian!
Approximately 300 layers, two days, and so much (So Very Much) of waiting-for-gifs-to-export later…
…my latest nefarious gif idea! Because the Criminal Minds intro just slaps (and, as correctly hypothesised by elenothar, gif maker brain is indeed the devil on my shoulder).
Aaaaand we're back! Having finally found the time to both watch and gif things this week – obviously key components of a balanced diet…
( new songs! )
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( gifs! )
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( and a watchlist )
No rec section this week, but allow me to point you to last week's 2021 releases playlist! With my completely objective rankings, for Science.
As it says on the tin! Because I finally figured out the scenes and layout I wanted to go with this quote (from Robert Desnos' I Have Dreamed of You so Much) that practically shouts Shen Wei from the rooftops…
I don't do overlay gifs very often, but the effect is always fun to see. Also doubles as my first gif fill for guardianbingo!
(事情是这样的…)
So after realising he'd already gotten to ten (TEN!!) new releases for 2022 as of today, I apparently decided that obviously made it time to relisten to all his 2021 songs Right There and Then. As usual, things devolved from there. You know how it is.
And thus! Here is a 2021 releases playlist…
…to go with the 2021 releases gifsets I already did…
…aaaaand a completely arbitrary personal ranking made on the very objective criteria of "on a scale of 1 to 10 how !!!! am I about this", among other scientific measures:
( one tries not to play favourites, but )
Which I know declares a good one-third of the total as some kind of fave, but I assure you this is completely true and valid. Anyway! Drop any faves you have in the comments so we can compare notes. For Science.
Finally finished my discussion of episode 24 (i.e. the hospital episode leading up to the bomb scene) over at sid_guardian! Featuring language notes and so many, many gifs, because it's me and that's what I do…
(I'll probably post the gifs on Tumblr later too, if anyone wants a rebloggable version! …once I figure out how to split them up, at least.)
ETA: First gifset up!, with 5(!?) more parts queued over the next couple days!
…well, Sunday today, technically. But I wanted to finish a second gifset before posting, and also what is time anyway!
Moving swiftly on.
( new song! )
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( gifs! )
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( recs: english songs edition! )
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( and a watchlist )
Have a rawr-some(?) day/week/month/year/other unit of time ahead! goes to download even more videos to gif
Suits | Snacks | Hair | Crow Tribe |
Longevity Dial |
| Action / Adventure | Sang Zan | Dragon City University | Snake Tribe |
Dijun Booklet |
| The Regent | Home | Free Square | Undercover | Awakening |
| Misunder- standings | Cooking |
Motorcycle | Black-Cloaked Envoy |
Mystery |
Zhao Yunlan |
Zhao Xinci | Legends |
Case Fic | Happy Ending |
[ lighter squares: fics | darker squares: gifs ]
[ card from guardianbingo | code insp
girlrock ]
🎵好运来.mp4🧨
In an absolutely vexing turn of events I've not had time to gif anything this week between work + Chinese New Year errands… but hey, I've got plenty from last year! 年年有余 amirite.
( new song! )
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( recs! )
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Happy Lunar New Year in advance to everyone celebrating it! 新年快乐！祝大家虎年行大运！天天开心、身体健康！我们都要好好的！ (sudden 拜年.mp3)
Aaaand here I am back like a bad penny with another rambling-about-Zhou-Shen-post because I had so much fun with the first one. (Thank you for the lovely comments on that, by the way, I had a blast seeing the responses!)
( new song! )
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( gifs! )
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( recs! )
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( and a watchlist )
Again, feel free to leave your thoughts/faves/anything in the comments! And yay, completely coincidental 9.29pm post…
ETA: Just realised the audio of his 起风了 performance is now up on Spotify and YouTube Music! Which is neither here nor there (it's from 2020, not exactly recent) but I love his version of it so much you have no idea.
