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Originally Posted by IPlayDonkaments
How did you learn to make animated gifs? Tutorials or just ****ing around?
Do you make King Fish swallow?
I enjoy your work by the way.
Mostly experimentation. It's not very complicated. The first animated gif I ever made was many years ago for a dumb website called ytmnd. I wanted to sync a bunch of still pictures with a song, so I downloaded some crappy gif animation program and learned the concept of frames. I used Audacity (a sound editing program) to measure sections of the song precisely, down to hundredths of a second, and timed each frame accordingly. It came out rather nice.
Some years later I decided that I wanted to try my hand at making cartoons, so I downloaded Adobe Flash. It's somewhat similar to doing animated gifs, so most of it came naturally, though I did have to read a few tutorials to learn about tweens and such. I sunk a lot of hours into lip syncing and made some painfully unfunny cartoons. When I started making stuff for 2+2, I actually had to create a new YouTube account because I didn't want anyone to see them.
My familiarity with Flash translated well to video editing in Vegas, so there wasn't much of a learning curve there either.