thing-a-day 2010 - The yearly creative sprint, 4th edition
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Day Three - Animated gif

I've been working on this way longer than I should have, and the result is not quite the image I had envisioned, but I am still pretty proud of myself.

I have been spinning some very fine/thin wool to make a sock yarn which I will knit up to make a pair of socks. I thought it would be pretty cool to make an animated gif of myself spinning yarn. I borrowed Matt's camera which has a program on it that allows you to set increments of pictures taken for a given duration. I started with a picture every second but that was way too much, so I set it for every 5 seconds. I spun for over 300 pictures and then using photoshop and imageready I put the images together for the result below. I ended up only using the first 75 pictures because it was taking so long and our "TAD"s shouldn't become a chore. I also made it only 100 pixels wide, but I wish it had been a bit larger.

I have only made a couple basic animated banner ad gifs in the past. I don't know a ton and have taught myself how to do this, so, no help from the computer geek boyfriend :)

-Robyn

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Comments (2)

Feb 03, 2010
Kim said...
Okay this is work.
Feb 04, 2010
stacysdesigns88 said...
What a gadget! thanks for sharing your gif. neat! can't wait to see your knitted socks. That'll be cool.

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