This is GIF-A-Week, an initiative to interpret a weekly topic and make super cool animated GIFs for the amusement of your dorky friends. That's right-- every week there will be a new topic for you to make into something rad. Consider this to be a low-pressure, purely creative outlet. This is not about making the best art or the most technically accomplished animation. What's important is to have fun and make something that you enjoy.
THE RULES
1. Every Saturday at midnight we will announce a topic. Your contribution is due that following Friday, before the new topic is announced. Consider the topics to be springboards for your ideas. Your interpretation doesn't have to be literal; take what comes to you and run with it.
2. The animation should be at minimum 6 frames, or half a second. Why, that's only a frame a day followed by a day of rest! However, if you decide to go above and beyond the bare minimum, that's just dandy. Who are we to stifle your creative genius? Make 12 frames. Make 12 hundred. Add some lens flare! Go all out, if you want to. Your animation doesn't even necessarily have to be in GIF format if you want to get really crazy. Just keep it to the topic and enjoy yourself.
3. If you make a GIF for a topic that's already expired... that's fine, post it up anyway. You just won't be in the running for the trophy (more on that later).
4. Please tag your posts according to the topic you are responding to. For example, you submission for this week, topic #1, should be labelled "Topic #1". Easy!
5. HAVE FUN.
Now that you have carefully read and processed our stringent set of rules, it's time to start animating!
TOPIC #1: YOUR FAVORITE DINOSAUR
Due Friday, May 18th, 2012
Due Friday, May 18th, 2012
Of course, you don't have to participate. You won't be ostracized for all eternity. You won't lose the high esteem in which we once held you. Not at all. If you do want to take us up on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join in the greatest animation project of all time, of course, then get going! We can't wait to see what you come up with.
I have a recommendation: We could have a standard way of tagging our posts so it's easier to sort by topic, like "prompt 01" or "topic #1" or "001". If you indicate in the prompt post each week how you want posts to be tagged, people could self-tag their posts. :)
ReplyDeleteI like this proposition Kellie! How about "Topic #1." I will add it to this post!
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