I’ve had this GIFestivus2012 GIF done for a few days. It’s for Ben Rimes’ Animated GIF Assignment 871: My Little Pony, Friendship is GIFtastic.
Rainbow Dash and the other pony look like they’ll be flying for some time now. Check back later to see if they’re on a break.
It took quite a bit of fiddling to get this one close to a loop. But now it looks like an old Hanna Barbara cartoon where the characters are fake running in front of the rotating scenery. Still a lot of frames — I edit these things down as best I can! It still looks good at 16 colours. But large at 1.3 MB for this 640 pixel wide image.
More recently I’ve had some success reducing file size by adding transparent sections to various frames, and having the non-changing parts present on only one common frame. But there’s nothing in this one that repeats. Each frame is different.
However, we’re getting there.
This GIF is awesome! I love the way that your eye gets distracted from the loop at the end of Rainbow Dash’s sudden surge by the nice fluid motion of Lightning Dust, slowly rocking back and forth. The endless tunnel of clouds made this a great choice, not to mention the fact that it’s from a relatively recent episode too (the kids and I watched last week online).
You get lots of thumbs up from the Rimes’ household on this one, we all love it!
P.S. My daughter spent a good 5 minutes watching this GIF, nice 🙂
Hooray! I’m glad this GIF was seen and appreciated by some My Little Pony fans! And it’s good to know the name of the green pony! I didn’t pick that up while scanning the clip for a good sequence.