First, I finally (finally!) figured out how to make an animated gif. As per usual, I was only missing one button to make it work.
Also have a really cool idea for a deviantART avatar image now. Involves a hamster of course. Now, a bit of a note about animated gifs and my opinion of them. I don't understand the phenomenon of chopping up a perfectly good YouTube video of a dog doing something and making it into a 6 panel animated gif comic strip. It's a mutant if you ask me. Too many things moving at once. Mono-tasker's nightmare.
I also find endlessly looped gifs to be cute for the first two seconds, then annoying for the rest of their existence.
That being said, I wish I had looped the rainbow as it is a very short animation and may be hard to catch when the page loads. I get that. That makes sense. What gifs need is a pause. Some breathing room. But making a gif longer means more work, and more animation skill. In that sense I understand why annoying gifs happen. They take less time and energy to make.
Well, I'm an animator, so I'll just have to expend the extra energy and make something fantastic. My work ethic won't allow me to do otherwise. Huzzah!
Earworm of the Day: What is Love? by Haddaway OR played on 8 floppy drives
