#gifmaker problems

[pennywises]

i am once again begging y’all to stop leaving your negative reviews on gif sets. i promise the people who spent hours (yes, hours!) creating something out of love for a film or a show don’t want to hear every issue you have with it, or that it’s overrated or poorly executed or anything that’s basically shitting all over something they enjoyed enough to make a gif set for it. keep your comments positive and hey, if you’re dying to talk about your problems with something? make your own post.

[sersi]

on one hand, i desperately wish i had thunderbolts* in 2160p imax enhanced on my laptop right this very second so i could gif/rewatch/discover more things to spiral over.

but on the other hand, coloring those trailers was an absolute nightmare and the movie definitely isn't gonna be any different, so i should probably just enjoy this period of MCU BACK (even tho it never left for me) x 2012-style avengers tower brainrot free of the suffering of coloring a movie that seems to be both deeply yellow and deeply blue 🙈😭

[capinejghafa]

Honestly sometimes I see a comment that goes that should be reversed or something that signifies that something is wrong with the gifset and I want to pat the person's hand and go, "Then you gif it." Learn to develop your skills as a gifmaker and make it how you want. In fact, I encourage you bc goodness knows gifmakers don't get enough credit or people keep stealing our stuff or or or... anyways, you're more than welcome to make a whole new set with the same concept.

[meyerlansky]

just for reference, the amount of work gifmakers put into taking badly-lit, murky, flat footage and turning it into something dynamic and nice to look at is astronomical

even in a relatively well-lit, color-balanced show like stranger things [don't get me STARTED on the lighting in Every Period Drama Ever] it took a ton of tweaking to take this:

to this:

bonus split view of the unedited footage and my many adjustment layers:

i don't have the files on hand so i can't tell you exactly how many adjustment layers, but there's at least four on that gif alone, and they all took fiddling around with to get right. a LOT of effort goes into cleaning up even the best footage, cropping shots, and rendering gifs, and these aren't even anything fancy—no overlays or fades, no text, no playing with colors or insets, which add on WAY more work—just gifs of the scene.

gifmakers create out of love, just like fanartists and fic writers do. reposting gifs instead of reblogging them means we don't get to see whether people enjoy what we put so much time and effort into, and it means we don't get credit for the work we put in. if you wouldn't repost fanart, please don't repost gifs either.

[ethernalium]

waiting eldi13 to draw final fantasy xvi logo without the ff watermark...

[ohlexa]

My favorite thing about giffing is when it’s all said and done, after spending an unbelievable amount of time on a handful of gifs, you look at the final product and you’re like - nah, nope, who decided THIS was a good idea, this is UGLY, and you close it out and let it die in your drafts.

Yeah, that’s my favorite.

[okmcintyre]

So this is NOT a complaint but literally last week I started stitching together gifs as smart objects to bypass the MAX 10 IMAGES rule, and I was so proud of myself, and now @staff you're telling me that I can upload up to x30 gifs AT A TIME!??

[toptony]

People are complaining about tumblr compressing gifs and making them look horrible, maybe I just don’t have a critical enough eye because I haven’t really noticed any difference in quality of gifs. I started making gifs on this website when the gif had to be under 1MB. Now those were dark days. We are pretty spoiled now imo.