well said armo.
and when I enter a gif into the contest, I don't expect top spot. so if/when it does, thats just icing on the cake for me. I do gif's for the challenge involved in
A) making something cool
B) making it still look good under the restrictions
C) making the entry respectable for the PSC masses
D) doing something that until last year was completely new to me.
I've been playing with photoshop WAY longer than trying to do animations. So to me its more challenging to go off into new lands and see what there is to see and what I can do.

Well said shaman, that's exactly why I use vectors. Pretty much every entry I post is something new that I've tried or a new style of doing it. what can I say? I have a short attension sp..

don't worry about that, they won't

flash is a whole different kind of story. Animations can be programmed and interact with the user. Now that would be totally out of the scope of psc

all the gifs I made are photo manipulations (and some of them even have improved my knowledge)

anyway, like someone (shaman?) said, if you don't like, don't vote for it (I don't mind, and i won't have a grudge from it ), but don't separate it. The beauty of psc is that everyone is handled equally.

I'm just having fun with you. I know where you are coming from but as my earlier post pointed out there aren't enough gifs being done to warrant separate entries. The main reason why there are so few gifs is because it's hard, painstaking work. But it is rewarding, and it is a pleasure to see one pop up when breezing through the static entries. Don't let your goals or views about what a PSC contest should be interfere with voting/commenting on someone's creative efforts.

hey armo look! A chicken!


how can you have a short attention span doing vectors? I did one and it took FOREVER! talk about having to have patience!


I lost my practice cause I ran out of patience!

Wait a minute - are you saying I'm not allowed to do an ass-whooping animation in 3dsmax and convert the 20-something frames to a gif in ImageReady

'most' of us giffers I believe i said Voks!

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And of course don't forget to reward those who have voted for your hard work by voting for theirs.
It's what makes the site go 'round.


The example of your winning entry perfectly illustrates my problem with too many gifs;
You took static cars and made them drive.
That's not a concept. It's motion.

It's obvious by the votes, however, that a lot of people love motion and appreciate the amount of time the entry took to produce (though try swaying an unhappy art director by telling them your work took a really really really long time).

The main point that's being made by people in my camp is that it doesn't make sense to pit motion against still (and yes, I understand they're both done in Photoshop)
A separate contest would encourage more gifs and improve their overall quality.

agree....a moving picture does not necessarily get a vote. It's the good story with it that works. There are alot that annoy me too...hahahaha.

ok bad, take this one:

http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/119298/fly-away-gif.html

apples and oranges

It doesn't matter whether I like that particular entry or not.
I never said gifs should be separated because of their quality.

http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/102853/pastors-new-toy-gif.html
I had a lot of fun with this one... please note the details like the shadows. I think if you're going to gif, it should live up to the same standards as static images. IE shadows, image quality and the rest

I would not be opposed to a separate contest, I think that would be sort of fun.

ok badcop i misunderstood you

But we can talk talk and talk. At the end noone can say that giff is non contemplate in adobe Photoshop program. So i think this thread has no reason to be.

My first and last gif.

http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/104668/scared-indian.html