Tag: animated GIF

  • Psycho Animated Movie Poster

    Phew! This poster is done! It was harder to make than the previous four Hitchcock posters to date, but the real problem was that other efforts became a distraction over the past few weeks (good stuff honestly). But I was able to lock in over the past couple of days and I spent most of…

  • Ready to Recover

    I’m going to finish the Psycho animated poster tonight. Hacking away at my anxieties.  

  • Giant Ants at Work Animated GIFs

    This time I didn’t do any damage to the mobile phone microscope as I did for the animated burning candle. I shot these on my walk from the car to campus, which I did basically with my head down looking for ants. So of course you start to notice things you don’t normally including these…

  • My Pants, Flowers, and Bit of Burn Out

    This is a repost for my summer course with teacher education students. I’ve been playing along asking them (and myself) to be makers, recognizing there will never be exactly what they want in the classroom. So far my favorites ‘maker projects’ by my students are a jello mold of a cell and a very cool…

  • Norman the Peeper

    I’m working on my next animated GIF Hitchcock poster, next up is Psycho, and right now I’m thinking of deviating from the original poster dramatically. The featuring of Janet Leigh in her skivvies to advertise the film doesn’t do it justice in my mind. Maybe it got the audiences in the theatre back in the 60s? But…

  • The Birds – Animated Movie Poster

    This is my fourth effort at animating Alfred Hitchcock film posters, and this one took a lot of time. I’m not sure if I’m going to make it all the way to my desired dozen posters by the end of the summer. This GIF is based on the 1963 theatrical release poster for The Birds and is…

  • Vertigo, Dizzing Educational Awesomeness at UMW

    Yes this post is an excuse to show another Alfred Hitchcock animated poster which I made while at UMW’s Faculty Academy (with Rear Window & North By Northwest this makes three, nine to go). But I’m not going to write about the film Vertigo and the designer of this poster Saul Bass. Ok one thing,…

  • Reorienting My Compass, North by Northwest?

    It’s been over a year since I first discovered ds106 and it’s amazing to me how much creative energy I’ve discovered since then – I’ve made more work in the past year than I have in the previous ten, seriously. Ok this isn’t exactly true, I’ve made many things over the past decade, but they’ve…

  • Rear Window Animated Movie Poster

    Alan Levine’s post about watching cool flick’s with Jim Groom finally got me to get of the snide and finish this animated movie poster for the amazing Hitchcock classic Rear Window. I have an older post with animated GIFs from Rear Window, but all things GIF need to ratcheted up a notch every few weeks.…

  • Karateka – Animated Floppy GIF

    If there is one videogame I’m certain that I spent a few hundred hours playing, it’s definitely Karateka on the Commodore 64. Karateka a simple fighter game, which like most games of that time was really hard to complete, as there was no option to ‘save’ and pick up where you left off. The game…