#dramaism

[zhoufeis]

이성경 Lee Sung-kyung & 김영대 Kim Young-dae in 별똥별 SHOOTING STARS. South Korea, 2022.

[snimeat]

hi, gei, welcome to aos party! (or funeral? 🥲 it's not rainbows YET). i absolutely don't mind you rambling in my tags, keep going I'm enjoying the rumbling

i also binged s1 in one week and now I'm obsessed with s2 I can't think of anything else. agree with you - constant switch of dynamic is so so entertaining i even enjoying amnesia plot and change in their relationship. absolutely love jang uk's development and I'm dying to see cho yeong with her memories. i really looking forward to how she would act having memories from all of her lives. I expecting another switch in dynamic and i just CAN'T WAIT like give me more!!!!

hiiiiiiiiiiiii jeyyyyy!!! thank god, i might continue but i’m trying not to overwhelm you or my dash so trying the small doses even though i’m not that type lmao.

i wasn’t even thinking of starting it to begin with. my tiktok decided it was time to send me some aos kdramaedit and i fell into that hole. here we are now, isn’t this the live of a kdrama lover though? the personality switch is what’s entertaining to me. idk why either, even though i kinda miss kiddo jang uk. he was adorable with his whining. also love love his development, i wish we could’ve seen a bit of that, especially since he uses naksu’s sword too. i can’t wait to see when she gets her memory back because it’s a mess up there??? i’m still confused with the body switch/whose memory we’re keeping situation. so, i can’t wait to see that. do you think we’ll have a more s1 dynamic back with something else mixed when she remembers? i gotta say i love this dumb clown cho yeong, especially all the shit she says and does but i am done with it. i need to seeeeeee jang uk’s reaction. idk, i think he might think it’s her but maybe he’s not sure yet? I DONT KNOW but yeah

as you noticed the difference in vibrancy compared to s1, it’s quite fun to see how it fits perfectly with jang uk’s feelings and how he expresses himself too. man, i love when kdramas uses parallels in a witty way.

[cuddlybitch]

#ShowYourProcess

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.

RULES: When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you’d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

@haeyeongs and @moonlightsdream tagged me and chose my Extraordinary You gifset. Thank you Camille and Layla 💐💖💖

Tagging the following folks if they want to do it:

@savingfaces for this set

@sjoongki for this set

@anya-chalotra for this set

@dramaism for this set

@dead-end-street for this set

@monae for this set

@inejz-ghafa for this set

@komunyoung for this set

(Technically, I was tagged twice so I can tag around 10 people right? 🤪)

PLANNING

The planning for this set started simple enough, as it was made for Day 1 of the #KDRAMAWOMENSWEEK prompts, which was "Doubles/Foils".

I immediately thought of making something for Extraordinary You given the show's premise. My first idea was to make something out of Eun Dan-oh being the actual show's main character, but the "extra" in the comic book their characters live in vs Yeo Joo-da as the "protagonist" of the comic book, but a supporting character in the actual show.

Unfortunately, Na-eun and her kpop group got exposed for bullying one of their bandmates at around that time, so this was scrapped.

I still wanted to work with Extraordinary You, so I pivoted to focusing on Dan-oh's character, juxtaposing her comic book/stage character with her true, off-stage character. With this in mind, I wanted to ensure I display both her "stage" self and her "true" self in the set, so I started looking for and screencapping scenes I can use for the set.

On this note, I also made it my goal for this event to learn how to blend and overlay gifs. I forced myself to only make sets in these styles I've never tried.

I perused @anya-chalotra tutorial on putting multiple gifs into one using shapes for my first scrapped idea, and @inejz-ghafa tutorial on blending gifs, which I ended up relying on the most as I began creating.

CREATING

Let's just say creating was a messy process for me because this was my first time attempting to do a blended gif.

To start, I was just speed-browsing through Extraordinary You episodes, and capping as much scenes I could potentially use as possible. I wanted to focus on how stage!Dan-oh is always portrayed by the writer as weak and sickly, and shadow!Dan-oh is more strong-willed and full of life, and blend those two together.

I think with experience, I will probably learn how to make better screencapping choices, but at this point, I was just in the I WILL MAKE IT WORK AND BLEND IT mode.

Anyway, I coloured the gifs first as I saw fit, before blending. As you can see for this one I had a lot of PSDs saved. Essentially for each gifset, I have the base PSD, the accent PSD (which essentially will be what I blend with the base), and the blended gifset (where I experiment with the blending, and adjust colouring). If there's gonna be text on the gifset, I also save that as a another PSD, so that's around 3-4 PSDs per gif.

The colouring itself just follows my usual process for doing my coloured gifs. The only thing I thing I did differently is to colour the area where I want to blend with a black paint brush, and set that layer to Soft Light, and duplicated the layer, changed the opacity of the layer until I achieve the darkness I need for my blended gif.

I kept the colouring for the accent gif for this one pretty basic...

Because I ended up adding the purple colouring later on after I blended the gifs together.

After I've made my colouring adjustments to the blended gif, I converted everything into 1 smart object, added noise, then converted back to frame animation so I can add text.

The process is the same for pretty much all 3 gif sets, but of course I did experiment A LOT on what scenes to blend with the base gif. I think this is when experience with doing more blended gifs come into play cause I wasn't very smart in choosing the scenes to blend. I just know what idea I want, and the base gif I want to use and tried to hammer it in until it looked passable to me. Maybe the base gif I chose isn't the easiest to use for blending, etc., but I think making those smart choices will hopefully come to me the more experienced I become in making these types of gifs.

POSTING

For posting this one, since it was part of an event, I had it in my drafts until the event started. So I set up the caption, and tags as soon as I finished the gif set, and saved it until I was ready to post.

In general, I do post my gifsets and save it in the drafts as I make the set. It show me the full picture of the gifset I'm creating, and helps me see whether something needs colour adjustments, or the flow of the gifset isn't looking as good as I thought.

For this particular set, I struggled a lot with the second (middle) gif because I was having a tough time finding a scene I want to blend it with, how to style it in general, and even the colouring of it... when I was posting different versions of the second set, nothing was quite working, and in the end I just went with the gif that semi-worked with the flow of the set, even though it's not 100% what I wanted because I've already spent so much time on it and I was already empty creatively.

But yeah, I do like saving the gif set in my drafts as I go along so I can keep my creative vision in check.

When the time rolled along, and the #KDRAMAWOMENSWEEK event started, I just posted it during the day and that's that.

[jaehwany]

hi, justine 💕 wishing you happy holidays! i hope this year was very good for you and i believe that next year will be even brighter and kinder. i wish that you will always have your loved ones around you, that the hard time won’t ever come. be healthy, be as wonderful as you are, be successful at everything and just enjoy this great life. of course get rest and have fun - you deserve it 🎉🎊 thank you so much for bringing so many amazing gifsets to life you're literally the queen of coloring 💜

hi jey!! thanks for dropping by and for being so lovely 🥺️🥺️🥺️ i hope you're enjoying the holidays too and keeping warm and that 2022 will treat you even kinder 💞💞💞💞💞 thank u so much for the compliments too!! right back at you <3 i hope next year we can watch more of the same shows so i can enjoy your beautiful creations even moreeee 🥰️🥰️

[kdramaspace]

MEMBER OF THE MONTH ↳ Congrats JEY! @dramaism​​

💌 NOTES FROM THE ADMINS

Layla: jey, you have been part of the kdrama community for a long time and seeing all the contributions always makes be happy, seeing how your style evolved through the years and your gifs only getting prettier and prettier as you keep giffing, i love your clear gifs and your colorful style they're just so beautiful. and i love reading your tags .. so thank you for being part of the kdrama community and being part of the kdramaspace family, so here's to have more kdrama on community, with all my love 💛.. ↳ favorite works: [ 1, 2, 3 ]

Sam: hi jey! it’s been so nice to see your gifs evolve over time. your big gifs are very sexy.  Also your ability to make compilation sets? *hats off to you* all the vincenzo gifs you are providing, the fandom is being well fed—and i’m not even watching the show yet. you always leave sweet comments in tags ❤︎ also WOMEN yes, your sets focusing on the female characters are always so nice to see. thank you for being a part of our net for all this time and I look forwards to seeing even more content from you in the future! ↳ favorite works: [ 1, 2, 3 ]

Alexa: jey~~ your content is so wonderful!!! i’m always excited when i see what you’re giffing and it’s been amazing to see your work grow and development over the past year or so! your colors are sooo vibrant and the sharpening is so... well sharp lmfao it gives your gifs such a distinct feel! i’ve been loving your chayenzo sets and im hoping the finale this week will bring us some more good content from you :’))) and i can’t wait to see which shows you’ll be giffing next!! thank you so much for being a member of our net, you’ve been a long time supporter and of and we love supporting your content <3 ↳ favorite works: [ 1, 2, 3 ]

[yesdramas]

hi, becca! 🥰 11, 12, 32 & 42 for gif-maker ask! have a nice day 💜

HII JEY!!

11. What is that one set you made that just won’t die

lmao this the untamed gifset never stops getting notes... and it's just so funny

12. What is the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever giffed

answered this already but Lee Min Ho's lamen hair in bof

32. What is your favorite tool/adjustment layer in Photoshop

curves is always my first layer of every coloring and is a MUST HAVE, I never do a coloring without curves

42. How is your gif folder organized? Is it organized at all?

it's empty. I always delete everything after posting on tumblr.

questions for gif-makers

[zhoufeis]

Lan Tianye. Wake up. The sun is rising. It’s so beautiful.

WAIT, MY YOUTH! 等等啊我的青春 China, 2019, dir. Shen Qin Yuan.

[snimeat]

sorry what did you say? you haven't seen any official posters? I'm coming to the rescue

the first one made me watch the whole drama and the last one.... well it's bts photo... and i have crazy feelings about this one

I HAVEN’T!!! i never look at posters.

OH MY GOD!!!!!! I GET IT. I COMPLETELY GET IT. THE FIRST ONE IS SO!!!! THEY’RE ALL VERY!!!!!

thank you for the rescue, i didn’t know what i was missing