The Digital Academy, day 2: Is there such a thing as too many animated gifs?
With your partner, make two reaction gifs based on the emotions listed on your cards. The orange card is the positive emotion card.
The blue card is the negative emotion card. Be as creative as you like!
How to:
- Go to the online gif maker tool. (There are many of these around the internet, but this one is super simple!)
- Pick “Create animated gif.”
- Select “Create gif from webcam.” What this does is give you an interface where you click the “add frame” button for each image in your gif. You click it a bunch of times to make the animated movie.
While it’s easiest to do this with a webcam, you can also take a bunch of screenshots, like doing old school animation, and create a video that way. That means you can create one of these for web instructions, too, like how to use a database or how to search the catalog. If you’ve got time, give it a shot!
You can do this as you like: you can both emote at the same time, or one person can control the computer while the other acts, and take turns, or you can find another way to communicate these emotions and portray them using the gif maker. Whatever you like! As long as you create two gifs that match the emotions you’ve got and post them!
Check out the settings, see what they do. If you want to start over with the gifmaker, just reload the page. Save your completed gifs to your computer, then post them on your blog. Tweet your finished creations with the tag #digitalacademy! Retweet your partner’s gif, too!