Re: More GIFs on Parade

[Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is not discounting the concept of the actual final result, BUT Why anyone would do that as a GIF animation is beyond me.   Not that its not interesting work but I, (or any VFX person) can do that in a proper Visual effects compositing program probably in 1/10 the amount of time as it would take to do this in Photoshop or a GIF editor.  Just because you do it the hard way doesn't make the art better.    Its a big problem we keep running into.   These kids we get today thinking low fi is cool are always trying to find the hardest way to complete their task.     We even have tools that have existed for a very long time called Time Slicing.  I get it in 1996 when these kids where being born GIF was the only way to do animations on the web.   What I don't get is why doing Low Fi flipbooks is all the rage again when tools exist that give the exact same aesthetic result.   This is a movie from 1998.  It will have a different look then the GIF because its supposed to. http://tx-transform.com/Eng/index.html  and 

tx transformator

tx-transform, a film technique that was presented at the Diagonale festival in 1999, has been developed further. This time a team consisting of Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is presenting the tx-transformator. This automat, based on the theory of relativity, allows viewers for the first time to modify their perception of the familiar relation between space and time by experiencing time in a transverse flow to their spatial movements. Thereby, an interactive and astonishing new perception is made possible in real time. Hence, the regular sequence of motion is turned upside down: visitors, who keep staying at the same location, are being stretched, abrupt movements are compressed. Limbs are moving away from bodies, heads get unwinded. Behind the tx-transformator's plain design, developed in the former German Democratic Republic (by Robotron 1983), not only a sophisticated technology is hidden, but also an intriguingly simple idea, which can be explored by means of a short video.

The same effect could also be accomplished just by using a slit Scan camera.   Sure conceptually whatever great.   Why one would do this as an animated Gif vs just do it in a video editor where time is controllable and techically is the same exact process but with proper tools is beyond me.   Its not like using a diana or a holga for its flaws. You are getting the same exact result.    

(and we could also go back to the original paper flipbook)  

Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com/

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:34 AM, John Palcewski <palcewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Fong Qi Wei has transformed his photo series Time is a Dimension into the GIF art series Time in Motion:

"The idea for Time In Motion came to Qi Wei while working on its predecessor, and has taken about four months to put together. For the original series, Qi Wei shot at the same location for between two to four hours, usually at sunset to catch the most dynamic and glorious lighting. The challenge then was to slice up an image in an interesting way, then to find ways of using the best moments in a given shard and arrange them into a coherent overall image. In this [new GIF series], the same balance was necessary, but has to be sustained across each frame."

See it at Andrew Sullivan's blog:

http://bit.ly/NRFNKX