“GIFfight! Mac Aquarium, with Diver,” animatedGIF by @aforgrave
The GIFfight! challenge is always a fun one. First established by New York art professor Ryan Seslow (@ryanseslow) and long-time #ds106 participant and communications instructor Micheal Branson Smith (@mbransons), it has drawn the attention of a good number of the GIFfing #ds106 community.
The static prompt for this challenge is a still of an undersea diver — on a skateboard or surfboard. While other entries to date take the diver to a variety of locations, I decided to put the diver back underwater in a simple animated aquatic scene. Once that was done, I needed a container to house the scene. What better than a classic Mac Plus hardware Aquarium.
Enjoy! And check out all the fancy stickers that you can look at when the power is off.
Brilliant take on this GIFFight! it’s the perfect screensaver.
I’ve never had the heart to gut a Mac and turn it into a real aquarium. And taking care of living fish would just be a chore. But creating some virtual fish in a virtual hardware Mac Plus aquarium is just the thing.
I had originally planned on putting the diver in one of Wee Bay’s aquariums. But this works as well.
Andrew,
You are an inspiration. I want to gif like you when I grow up 🙂 The detail of the stickers is just awesome, including the #4life along the top. Just lovely.
GIFfing, like most things, is an ever-improving effort. I will confess that I have done stickers-on-computer before https://aforgrave.ca/detritus/2013/02/19/the-ds106-giffer-inducted-into-the-smithsonianary-institute/ — it was one of my first attempts at using the various photoshop transformations — skew, perspective, distort, etc. Still learning!