{"id":9321,"date":"2012-12-22T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2012-12-22T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T15:08:33","slug":"rolling-rick-st-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2012\/12\/22\/rolling-rick-st-nick\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Rick St. Nick"},"content":{"rendered":"

This contribution for GIFestivus2012<\/strong><\/a> belongs in the category of\u00a0Animated GIF Assignment 859:\u00a0Riff A GIF<\/a>.\"Rolling<\/a><\/p>\n

This one truly did fall into place quickly — the idea came as soon as I saw Giulia<\/a>‘s recent post, “Never Gonna GIF You Up,”<\/a> for HB. This is the seasonal Riff on her GIF<\/em> to accompany her original.<\/p>\n

I quickly chased down some found Santa hats on the net, did a bit of work with the Magic Wand Tool and the eraser to remove the background around the hats and then scaled them to suit each image.<\/p>\n

\"Santa-Hat-1\"<\/a>\"Santa-Hat-2\"<\/a>\"Santa-Hat-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The shadow Rick in the lower left took the longest, as I had to make four different hat shadows — I just took a clipping of the head area and used the Clone Stamp Tool to extend the shadow texture into a hat shape. The eraser made it easy to edit, and I wound up removing most of the non-shadow part of the replacement so that it would just sit over the original head and leave room for the hands to do their thing.<\/p>\n

\"RickShadowHat\"<\/a>\"RickShadowHat2\"<\/a>\"RickShadowHat3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I guess it goes without saying that Giulia’s post Rick-rolled my brain<\/em>, as I had that song circulating as an ear-worm while I was working on this. \u00a0Hopefully the next GIF will let me give up the tune and move on to another one.<\/p>\n

The three Santa Hat GIFs above may come in handy to you. Please feel free to use them — they have a transparent background, so you just need to resize and apply as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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