Today’s post was inspired by a comment that was left by a friend of mine on one of my previous posts.  My buddy John linked me to this pretty cool site called “If We Don’t, Remember Me”.

It’s a tumblr site devoted to posting animated gifs taken from movies.  The movement that he or she selects is usually just a small subtle movement.  It’s an interesting and surreal experience to go through some of the stuff on the site.  There is a certain life to the gifs.  By only taking the most subtlest of movements, it feels as though you are looking into little living windows.

I tried to do the same thing this evening.  I was working late editing at the office so this was the perfect kind of creative thing for me to multi-task on.

I pulled a few moments from some films I like.  I also pulled a small clip of me in the film Prince Caspian.  That’s right.  They asked me to play a telmarine soldier for one of the scenes in the night raid sequence.  The guy next to me is Joe.  He was from the Armory department.

Anyways, I didn’t have as much luck creating life in these little gifs.

I had quite a tough time figuring out what was the best way to go about creating them.  I discovered after quite a bit of failure that Photoshop was the software I should be using.  I only got one gif finished successfully this evening.  I continued the process today (saturday) so that I could post more than just one.

What I think I’m missing is the sort of easing in and out of the freeze frames that gives it realism.  The movement still stops rather abruptly when it reaches it’s stopping point.  The most realistic one is the Pulp Fiction one at the bottom.  I have only just now realized how I can do this using greater delay times on certain frames.