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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Subtle Animated Gifs

http://lyrafay.tumblr.com/post/182020592082/e-ripley-beauty-of-gris-5

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Monday, September 3, 2018

Subtle Animation

Unfortunately, I could not find an attribution for these cool GIFs. I came by them on Tumblr, of course.

http://lyrafay.tumblr.com/post/177680094397/seafoamgreeen-song-of-the-sea

Saturday, January 20, 2018

The Blending Art: "Twister"

Runaways: Season 1, Episode 2: "Rewind" // Volume 1, Issue # 2, "Pride and Joy"

Now, this is the type of art I would like to learn how to do. In this animated gif,
summersocietyvp (someone I now follow on Tumblr) has taken a brief clip from the new Hulu series Runaways and married it up with a panel from the original source text, a comic of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan (words) & Adrian Alphona (images).

I particularly like the design choices that went into this piece of art. First, keeping the frame from the source panel constant throughout the gif reinforces the logic of the comic being the source text that encapsulates the new video adaptation.

Second, I like how the video clip has just enough frames to generate movement (to make it clear that it is a video clip and not a still picture) but not so many as to overwhelm the gif and distract from the comic panel frame. (This also keeps the gif short for any attention-deficited viewers.)

I also like the touch of leaving the speaking balloon in place when switching from the comic panel to the video clip but changing the text content in the speaking balloon to create a sense of linear logic flow: the greeting in the comic panel balloon ("Oh, hey, Mom") is followed by the logical follow-up question: "How was the meeting?" in the video clip balloon.

Runaways (2003) Issue #2

Also, summersocietyvp manages to blow up the comic panel large enough to fit the video clip without losing too much quality in that comic panel image. And, the decision to cut out the door frame from the source panel to reveal the edge of the Twister game and the video image (of an AT-AT Walker from The Empire Strikes Back) on the TV within the video clip is masterful.

I have read the comic, but I don't have Hulu and thus have not seen the series yet. However, this gif does suggest that the TV series honors the original source text while still adapting the story into something new. That's good advertising, if you ask me.

Saturday, January 6, 2018

SciFi, Fantasy, Comics, Etc.: The Intellectuals' Head Candy

Lego Catwoman Logging onto Her Laptop

Were I to engage in labeling myself one way or t'other, I would probably end up somewhere in the SJW camp, but not for the reasons the anti-SJW camp might suggest.

I want brain candy. I want texts, & movies, & art to challenge my thinking and stimulate new thought. I want to explore all the possibilities of being.

Despite my love of comics, which are often recursive and sometimes downright repetitive in their storytelling, I read them to discover the moments of "awe" hidden in them that cause my brain to rewire former connections and build new, unexpected pathways.

And, well, the old paradigms the anti-SJWs seem to exert a great amount of time, energy, and animosity defending just don't extend the story. The protagonists are the same, the devils are the same, and the payoffs take one nowhere that one has not already been.

That's not to say that genre fiction isn't also political for me. As brainstatic suggest in his/her/their post on Tumblr: SciFi, Fantasy, Comics have always served as part allegory reflecting the cultural "hot zones" of the zeitgeist of the time in which they were created.

(Though, I would add that the Clone Army in Star Wars,

who function primarily as cannon fodder, are designed on

the genetic material of an indigenous person of color.)

Lego Catwoman Cursing at Her Laptop

The characteristic of SJWs the anti-SJW could accurately ascribe to me, though, is intellectual snobbery. But that is only because, as a former teacher of English, I think it is the moral obligation of intellectually capable humans beings to actually develop their god-given capacity to reason.

So I insist that people who claim reason actually employ reason. Go figure.

Monday, February 27, 2017

American News Reporter (& Undocumented Immigrant): Stopping Sexists & Fascists since 1938

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Animated Comic Covers

There are two talents I wish I had: (1) the capacity to carry a tune and (2) the ability to draw. I don't wish I had these talents in order to earn money at them or become famous by them. I just like to sing (though my brother likens my singing to a cow mooing), and I liked to draw simple cartoons as a kid. (I liked coloring them the best, though. I am a huge fan of coloring.) An example of my work:

A Coffee-Stained Example of a Drawing from My High School Days: Captain Chemistry

An Aged & Coffee-Stained Example of a Drawing From
My High School Days: "Captain Chemistry"

A Cleaned Up Version of "Captain Chemistry"
(That Took Entirely Too Long to Tidy Up in Adobe FireWorks)

Not only am I a complete dork for drawing about a Captain of Chemistry, I still chuckle at my efforts to infuse the word "chemistry" with a Bunsen burner, a measuring glass, and a carbon ring. Like The Doctor, I thought I was clever.

I also came up with a name for my comic strip (the one that I have yet to actually create): "The short End." (<-- The "short" is deliberately un-capitalized to emphasize its shortness, and it comes from the adage: "The short end of the stick.")

While I lack both the talent and physical capacity to be the cartoonist I once imagined being, I still look for ways to be "artistic." I tend towards synthesis rather than creation. It just seems to be the way my brain works. While I cannot craft something out of the ether, I do aspire to combine and animate art already created by others.

One set of animated gifs by Kerry Callen (of classic comic book covers put in motion) illustrates the kind of craft I would like to learn how to do.