Penny Farthings – It is like when you get a new vehicle or a new addition to your life – you begin to see them everywhere when you had thought they were unique.
So goes the Penny Farthing. Since summer of Prisoner106 has started I am seeing the dang things everywhere!
Cathy Jo Nelson – who I follow on Flickr and some ed tech groups posted this picture recently.
We were out at a consignment shop we like to browse thru and again!
Then my husband and I are watching American Pickers on TV and they are looking and buying a penny farthing!
Then as I was watching “The General” I kept the stream running when it was over to watch the credits and the Penny Farthing was there again.
Needless to say – this called out GIF to me. Add to it, Rochelle Lockwood created another puffin with a Prisoner106 theme. Puffins are showing up as much as penny farthings and gnomes…..
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— Rochelle Lockridge (@Rockylou22) July 18, 2015
I downloaded the end of the General, used MPEG Steamclip and trimmed to capture the penny farthing. It turned out to be 450 frames! Wow! At first I thought I was going to have to take each and figure out how to remove the text credits. After going through the clips I found there were at least 1 text free frame between each credit change. So I went through all 450 and came up with about 20 frames – much more manageable.
- Loaded them as a stack into Photo shop.
- rearranged layers so they were in the right order of building the penny farthing
- Created frame animation in timeline
- set timings to .2 seconds and a little longer at the end to smooth it out.
- exported for web as GIF
Next was adding the puffin. I duplicated the file and then added the puffins by merging them into a layer. I added the aristocrat puffin as a new layer and chose add new layers to all frames. Worked on some timings again then exported. I also did a little color change. Because of the tones it did not give a dramatic effect but I tried 8 and 16 colors which give it a different look.
I wanted to have the princess puffin flying through the frames – but truth be told – I was tired and not up for the steps at the time….but it may come yet.
That’s great that you found there were text-free frames between the credits, and when you used just those it still gives a smooth gif! Very nice work. These look great! I love how you and Nana are combining the two ds106-es this summer.