Monday, May 23, 2016

Graphic nudity

Or "how I learned a few things about gif making" (if you were expecting some frontal nudity from yours truly, sorry to disappoint :p).



I decided that some of the static images I had used in the VR thingy weren't good enough, so I went back and gave them the gif treatment. I have spent a considerable amount of time over the last few months trying to figure out what are the best (and free) tools available for me, but it seems like what I already have is probably as good as it gets (and yesterday I figured out some nice tricks when working on simple gifs that don't require me to "blend" spirals and stuff with the sexy images). I use photoscape for the simple stuff, and GIMP when I need to do something more advanced, and to get gifs out of videos I have instagiffer. They are mostly simple, which is great because I doubt I could be as quick if I had to navigate more options. I also re-worked some of the older gifs (did I have any of them in the last release? Damn, I can't remember), although I didn't go and re-do all of them to avoid wasting time (you have no idea how much easier it is now that I have settled down for one simple font, it's a bitch to try and find something that is readable and doesn't look like someone puked letters on the screen is actually a challenge). I hope that in the future this is going to make it easier for me to churn out animated images, when I want them (it's a bit silly, perhaps, but I think when MC is involved, having captions pop in and out of short animations is actually pretty good, and offers some sexy potential, but maybe that's just me XD).

I wasn't feeling up for some new content just yet, so I did some maintenance stuff, I figured out some minor performance improvements, I cleaned up a little my notes and image folders, did backups, tested the game (which reminds me, I think I never actually finished my playthrough for testing the ending, I shouldn't have postponed it)... Uninteresting busywork, essentially.

I haven't settled down on what I'll do next week, so it will be a surprise for everyone, myself included. Until next week! ^_^

6 comments:

  1. Instagiffer looks like a good program that I could use, thanks for recommending it.

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    1. You are welcome. If you or anyone else has any questions about how I do certain things, feel free to ask. I am terrible at pretty much anything, but I might be able to point you toward some good software or technique.

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  2. ..."did backups"... <---Totally read that, at first, as "did backflips". That'd be awesome. Actually, you SHOULD do that! :D :D ;D

    I don't mind caps. Was searching forever about how a new user made this awesome bird gif (recently) with caps. If I ever find it again, I'll repost it here.

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    1. Man, I could try to do a backflip, but that would probably be the last time you hear of me! XD XD XD

      What's caps? Googling is of course pretty hard, given the name.

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    2. (not original anon)
      it is short for "caption", and yeah, a lot of English words have more than one meaning as it stands, with slang added it's pretty impossible lol

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    3. Oh God, I don't know how, but by caps I thought you meant c.a.p.s. some sort of software to make gifs. XD XD XD

      I know what caps are, and I am going to blame my being tired to this incredible misunderstanding. XD XD XD

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