Cold Bright Days
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February 23rd, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Hi Alex.
I’m really mesmerized by the shadows. The bleached out (blinded?) effect reminds me of entering out on a Brooklyn street after spending way too much time in either a) a sunlight-less room or b) in front of the computer. What do you use to animate? It looks like about 7 or 8 frames? How many layers are you working on per frame? Or are you working on layers at all?
February 23rd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
The animation is a simple gif and the light effects are all there in the shadows. I mostly tweaked the contrast in photoshop. The light was just sort of special that day and I’m glad I found nine frames between steel cellar doors that I could use.
February 24th, 2006 at 1:15 am
Da stories anna imagez really work well tagether…very creative multimedia presentation !!..m enjoyin it !!
February 24th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
I like how your animated gifs are executed. They appear to stay true to your original muse or idea. Does that sound right? When I try to build something in Flash, I often get so caught up in what it *could* do rather than what I originally wanted it to do.
You post frequently, too. How much time do you spent on each .gif?
February 24th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
It depends on the gif of course, but usually it takes a couple of hours at least to get it right. I keep wondering if I should learn flash. I’ve never really seen anything done with it that I loved so that makes making an effort harder - I guess one could make longer scenarios, but everything feels a little slick in flash. I like the basic way you can deploy a gif just like a j peg and text and it doesn’t open in some other window and feel removed- it sits in the space of the browser, if that makes any sense.
I also find that the most annoying thing about web stuff is that you’re constantly being asked to download some new flash or java player and who really stays interested long enough? I sort of like the basic cinematic quality of gifs too - everything looks like its being seen on a movieola, or nickelodeon. Makes the new machine feel connected to the past. I sort of like the idea off mixing the new with the old. I always refer back to Bucy Fuller saying in order to shoot an arrow forward you have to first pull it backward.