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And Just Cannot Leave Halloween Alone

A final, really, it's final this time, tweak from earlier versions, with about an 8 frame trim...

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Esperanto Pronto

Effects test - and just generally annoying the software:

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Public Service Announcement for December 18. 2019

Some Public Domain Selections from the Animating Apothecary Archives

Links to uploads at archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/1923bouncingaroundpironsneworleansorchokeh40021 - Bouncing Around, 1923 bit of jazziness

https://archive.org/details/hungarianrhapsody11joseechanizcolv135m1925 - Hungarian Rhapsody #11, piano solo, 1925

https://archive.org/details/sayitwithmusicrudywiedoeftscaliforniasn1922bruns2139a - Say It With Music, 1922

https://archive.org/details/sayitwithmusicmusicfrillsonly19222019  - the bits that serve as arrangement fillers to the original tune

https://archive.org/details/RAPSODIAPORTUGUEZA - Portuguese Rhapsody, ca 1925

https://archive.org/details/1917sylviaballetpizzacatocharleskelloggviw45113.mp4 (it's actually an mp3 - blame the typist on that one) Sylvia Ballet performed by Charles Kellogg- like a bird he sings! 1917

More to come....

A GIF for Monday

A GIF for Wednesday

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1930s Russian Drawn Sound: Nikolai Voinov's 'Paper Sound'

Well, this showed up on youtube - and it's pretty impressive, so for the Russian audience, I link it thusly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Zb4rso82M&fbclid=IwAR24fykiE6AwJ_MeVgqVkGsL2hIOvS-U_bWxjA7j_chPpPSaWXLdBXYohdU

And I affix my "colorized" version, just to play with some more functions of the editing system here:

And now, to the Trick or Treaters....

It's a wrap, a rushed rap, but there are other potatoes on this plate... so "regular" and "with effects" (bandwidth permitting)...

Wrapping Up Halloween GIFiness

Up to 14 seconds of basic animation - another few dozen sketches and it'll be ready to render into video.  Here's the ongoing GIFiness.

And another --

And the last gif version before going into "post"

Seven Minutes in Seven Seconds

The miracle of the GIF!  All hail the GIF!!

Halloween Season Is So Inspiring

Just for the Sake of Clarity

The Season Approaches

V1

V1a - corrected the "catch" in the cycle - cleared the keyframe at the end of the animated symbol layer - it was saving old data:

V2 - continuing with additional layers:

V3 - nearly 6 seconds now....the suspense is killing me!

V4 - 8 seconds, my my...may get this done by Christmas...

V5 - up to 10 seconds, getting ready for the next two basic actions

Update 6 - Adjusting colors, continuing -- this is taking FOREVER

Random Bedtime Thoughts