I made a community thumbnail for [email protected] a few days ago. I thought It would be a fun and creative project to make it animated.
Wow was it a lot of work! I didn’t know anything about gif animations so I looked up a quick tutorial. I made two frames alternating and worked from there. The result is rough in places but im proud of it anyway. It took way more animations than I expected to get things smooth. I learned early on small changes between many frames make for a more smooth viewing experience. Also too many new lines at once looks jaring so it needs to be subtle movement in and out
I did a bunch of animations when in art school decades ago, hand drawn, 3d, clay, mixed media, digital. I even did 6 30 second ones for TV. It’s an insane amount of work. 24 frames per second, so that’s 720 frames for the ones I produced for TV. I liked the moment of fame, but I didn’t make a career out of it :)
This is a great effort OP, and brought me back to those days.