It's purely a way of bringing an image to life, and done well it is magical.
Hate them or love them, there is a place for them and they are here to stay

Holy words

Pakimo, feel free to comment on this chop:



I think it's about as good a chop as I can make at this stage. Do you think it's a bad chop? It didn't get many votes, but does that make it bad? The point is that I didn't hide the bad chop behind a GIF. I posted it as a second entry in the contest in which I entered this:



I put a lot of work into the static image and created the GIF for fun. The "fun" turned out to be a lot of work, too, but I was pleased with the result. Not many others were, though.

Life goes on.

Oh, and the tesseract was inspired by one of the many cool Luxwiz animated avatars.



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I do prefer not to pick apart work people have done, nor choppers, as I said earler. It is not my reasoning behind this. I just really don't like animated gifs and personally I hate gifs in contests and I never vote for them. But thats just my opinion, and I am in a minority on this site, and has always been, when it comes to gifs.

I'll take that as a retraction of this:

"Yep, I see on animated gifs as a way to hide a bad chop."

I do prefer not to pick apart work people have done. Take it as nothing more or less than what I said.

I look at it more as a way to make something as boring as a cleanup job more fun and interesting...
The first frame and last frame of this is the clean up. taking out the alpaca from the original source
http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/173427/keep-off-grassgif.html



I respect your right not to like them though pak. you've long been a critic of gifs here.

Me, I only vote for the ones that have a story or something going on thats clever. if you just animate for the sake of animation... meh.

Are you calling my chop bad?


Take your meds, Pakimo.


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Run TWK Run.........Like a GiKer:




Giker : Giffer+Biker.

I have nothing to do with that

oh,you are way more complex than that...6 or 7D minimum.