thepgo's gif corner

[thepgo]

I make some gifs every now and then, a few landed as my signature, some weren't used, but I've got a few I guess are worth sharing:
[~1mb gifs warning]

i regret doing that one without a BDrip. TVcaps are bad quality.

They are all transparent, with a #f5f5ff matte. I got psd's in bigger resolutions :)

[r-18]

wow ...i wish i could even figure out how you do that stuff....but when i look at sites that explain it ....well i might as well be ...well doing something futile ....

[thepgo]

crap, mariya gif had a few glitches... fixed.
edit: eh, yet another one.. fixed.

actually that is not really complicated or something... just needs lots of :effort: and patience

[thepgo]

hm, I think I'll render this one next

hmm... I guess I'll have to make eyes open... it looks weird with only one frame with closed.

[Waka]

Damn, I wish I could do this. But I'm a very impatient person, I would probably get too pissed off and just give up.

[captaincrunch]

That Maria Holic one from the OP must have taken forever. Nice work.

[Tasemu]

:O what method do you use for these if you dont mind me asking, i would love to give it a shot. ^^

[Zillia]

Do you just render it out frame by frame in photoshop or the like the put it back together?

Because I've got so many that I want to do that too :)

Also what programs do you use? Mostly for the GIF side :)

[straydog]

always love your gifs thepgo, looking forward to your next works

[thepgo]

ok, since I had so many requests before, I promise to do tutorial in near future :)
as for your questions:
Maria Holic actually took me only a few hours. I rendered 18 mariyas with pen tool, then I realized I could use wand to clear half of the body in one click, so I've done remaining five with combined wand an pen tool. Thanks to the late discovery, I cleared the ladders quickly, mostly with wand, sometimes using quick mask to fix here and there.

Yes, I render all the frames separately. Mostly pen tool(thanks to q3 past, I can do it pretty fast)
I always, after grabbing all the frames to jpgs, check every frame to find the loop point, and recurrent or very similar frames. In Mariya's case I saved effort thanks to that, because while animation is ~40 frames long, it consists of only 23 unique frames, some of them used 2-3 times and put in a certain order. That saved nearly half of the frames to render.
While making avatars, I usually trash half of the frames or so at that stage, because size limit is pretty low, so I've got to balance on the edge of fluency.
Only tools I use are media player classic homecinema(a.k.a mpc-hc) for frame grabbing, and photoshop for all the rest. I'll make a tut soon.