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laesas · 1 year ago

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Gif Colouring Process | Ramking Set

There are various steps needed to adjust the colours of a gif. Good colouring can match tones of different shots, make colours look more true to life or cohesive, adjust so lighting is kinder to skintones and make scenes generally prettier to look at.

Because gifs allow for fewer colours than videos, it also involves prioritising which colours are needed in a scene and adjusting accordingly.

It can also be used for effects: subtle ones (like in like in gif 4: fading colours to highlight the focal characters in a photograph), or much more dramatic or stylised effects.

This is a tiny tiny glimpse of what gifmakers do when we refer to "colouring". 🖤

#flashing gifs cw #flashing gif cw #gifmaking #gif making #gif colouring #bee.gif #obviously I thought it would be interesting but I also wanted to highlight just how much work goes into each gif #also as a Not White gifmaker that is (mostly) giffing Not White people it's really important to me that I get the skintones right #so that's a huge factor in what makes a good gif to me #and each layer isnt just 'hit the curves button' or 'hit the selective colour button'#each layer is adjusted to that one gif specifically #unless it's from exactly the same scene and exactly the same angle you cant really copy colouring across from one to the other #you're relying on a person and a gif maker as a kind of visual artist to learn what's needed and what actually looks good #and I hate hate hate to turn this negative but it's why it's so hearbreaking when gifs are stolen or reposted without permission #and to counterpoint why its so very lovely when people reblog gifs to share them - or ask the artists to share!#There are some really great tutorials out there on how to make gifs #also gifmaking is really a easy to get into and it takes such a short amount of time to train your eye and create really lovely results #I mean it does make you go hRRRRR I COULD FIX THIS when a show or film lights something badly and doesnt fix it in post lmao #if you're a marvel gifmaker you're stronger than god btw #I justify fixing the shitty lighting in these scenes because the budget of my engineer was about 43p and a button #multimillion dollar blockbusters with teams of professional colourists should not look like that.#i digress #do not talk to me about the third gif I dont want to fucking know I dont care I never want to look at it ever again dghjksghjkrs #my worstie my behated #I was fighting for my life #I had to use red text on it as well because it dropped all the magentas out of the colour slots and it their lips went grey #like also because each gif is shown thorugh lots of iterations of colouring there are fewer colour slots overall #so the change is even MORE dramatic than what's shown here #but I made these mostly as an illustration of how much thought went into the set :)#hopefully the vibe still comes across anyway lol

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