{"id":5513,"date":"2017-02-27T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2017-05-11T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T23:56:31","slug":"digital-tools-the-art-of-the-gif-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"Digital Tools: The Art of The Gif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/gif71.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5514 \" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/gif71.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This GIF (much like the others that I have made) came about largely by accident. I began making the pattern by kind of stamping with a brush that I had created while attempting to\u00a0mimic a motif in Sicilian tiles that I was referencing. There is now very little resemblance, but I like the way that it turned out. It&#8217;s my first GIF that employs bold colors and I&#8217;m pleased with the continuity that&#8217;s created beyond the frame by the pattern. It seems like a pattern that could be\u00a0used in fashion design, so I wanted to echo that same kind of dynamism in the GIF. I used a lens warping effect within a center sphere in the frame in order to create this flashing\/popping effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/distortion.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5515 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/distortion.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of delicate and soft color palettes\u2014 shades and tones which seem to seamlessly meld with each other. There&#8217;s a strange metallic yet even flesh-like quality to the palette in this GIF, and it strikes me as being as off-putting as it is pretty. I had a very specific reference for the pattern, copying the rectangular designs that covered a building I had photographed in Prague. Each corner of the square converged in a center point, which gave it a really cool three-dimensionality that I kept coming back to. I found that it does interesting things to other images when used as a transparent overlay. These crinkling distortions are just that\u2014 distortions that I played around with in GIMP. It looks like they ended up having a sort of wave effect which I find really cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nuovogif.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5516 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nuovogif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was the one pattern that I made from something in my sketchbook. It was just a very simple floral line design which I managed to cut out and color in GIMP, turning it ultimately into a brush. There&#8217;s not really a specific inspiration for this, other than my admiration for more complex floral patterns and sinuous lines. I wasn&#8217;t quite sure how to turn it into a GIF, so I ended up making distortions in alternating sections of the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This GIF (much like the others that I have made) came about largely by accident. I began making the pattern by kind of stamping with a brush that I had created while attempting to\u00a0mimic a motif in Sicilian tiles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[268,270,271,272],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-tools-for-artists","tag-gif","tag-gif-art","tag-digital-tools","tag-digital-art","wpcat-263-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}