Celebrate the end of 2023 by making animated GIFs for each other! Sign up by Dec 8, submit on January 6th.
○ Friday Dec 8th - Sign up deadline. Join the discord channel!
○ Tuesday Dec 12th - Do-si-do! We’ll tell you who you’re making a .GIF for and what their prompt is. Interpret your prompt however you wish - get literal, get festive, get silly.
○ Saturday Jan 6th - Post what you made in the #and-a-happy-new-gif channel and share your prompt!
☁️🌵 Swing your Partner 🌵☁️
○ Howdy Y’all! This channel is shared between the Fantastic Arcade and The Museum of Human Achievement Discord servers so game devs and artists can hang out and make stuff together.
○ We’re using Connections Bot, which has some quirks. Emoji reactions are turned off, but other features seem to work fine. Let us know if anything seems funky.
🎨 Animated GIFs?! 🎨
○ Even if you’ve never made a GIF before, we encourage you to join in and give it a shot!
○ GIFs can be made on a computer or smartphone from photos, drawings, pixel art, game engine exports, screenshots, video clips, etc.
○ Try opening a .gif in Photoshop or Gimp to see what its guts look like. You can “remix” an
existing GIF this way by altering the individual frames of the animation
☃️ Sign Up ☃️
○ Fill out this form to participate
○ You’ll receive a message on Tuesday Dec 12th telling you who you’re making something for and what their prompt is!
❄️ Rules/Details ❄️
○ We’re here for a good time! Keep it friendly and positive. When in doubt, read the #rules.
○ Don’t leave your GIF recipient hanging! By opting in, you are agreeing to make and post a GIF on Dec 31st.
○ Questions? Contact @Jay RG#4863 or @Rachel Stuckey#8121 on Discord or by email at jay@themuseumofhumanachievement.com or rachel@themuseumofhumanachievement.com
🎄 Guides and Tools 🎄
○ Keep your file size under 8MB
○ How to Start Making Pixel Art
○ Tutorial for making GIFs from image files using GIMP
○ Tutorial for making GIFs using Photoshop
○ EZ GIF Tool
○ Free GIF making tools
○ Pixel Art + GIF Maker Tool
○ Pixil Art GIF Making Tutorial
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.GIF Art by Walt Mitchell
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.GIF Art by Jay Roff-Garcia
.GIF Art by Beth Fileti
.GIF Art by Michael Ferstenfeld
.GIF Art by Alex
.GIF Art by Samantha Mohler
.GIF Art by Rachel Stuckey
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