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I am the most awesome, or surskitty learns the good and bad ways to make animated gifs.

You guys really need to learn the story behind this. The phrase "30k jpgs" was thrown around a bit. As well as "0.75GB of screencaps".

surskitty is the most awesome.
 
How was I supposed to know that there are more frames in a pokémon episode after the OP and ED are cut out than my terminal can list?
 
I think Minidit's a lot more bothered at being stolen by Team Rocket than by James absent-mindedly poking and pulling at it, to be honest. Togepi was poking at Minidit a *lot* more than James did and Minidit didn't mind.
 
James is fucking awesome don't deny.


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Something I made from a few of the 30k screencaps I didn't actually need!
 
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These are really cool! I'd love to learn how to make them!

err---How is that Ditto holding up the Togepi?
 
Diz said:
These are really cool! I'd love to learn how to make them!

err---How is that Ditto holding up the Togepi?
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Here's what you don't do: you don't grab a pokémon episode and convert the entire thing to jpgs with one image per frame with the intent of just finding the bit you want to animate.

That is what you call a Bad Idea.

That is how you end up with 30000 images in one folder and you can't actually open this folder in any way that might involve thumbnails. ... Or, for that matter, being able to see an entire list of files in the folder.

No, what you *should* do is get a pokémon episode, figure out exactly what bit you want to make into an animation, do something or other to decompose it into individual frames -- I used Avidemux -- and then open the first frame in GIMP. Open the rest as layers, fiddle with it enough that it looks sort of right and isn't hueg liek xbox, save as animation. Tada!

Don't skip the step of finding what you want to animate first.

That is not a good idea.

Trust me on this.


I have no clue! Ditto is good at things like that, I guess.
 
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