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to everyone - I can not take credit for this (and I hope no one thinks I was trying to! I just now see FAQ#3 and should've put the credit in my post title)

<strong>I found it here</strong>

and linked to a mirror of it because the site and context was clunky and not correctly loading the one I thought was the best.

Hello, I'm a bot! The movie you linked is called All Good Things, here are some Trailers

to everyone - I can not take credit for this (and I hope no one thinks I was trying to!)

I found it here. (and linked to a mirror of it because the site and context was clunky and not loading the one I thought was the best correctly)

I've been thinking of picking up a Raspberry PI (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) and using a cheap LCD monitor to make one. Haven't gotten around to it yet though as I haven't had the time to look up the OS options for the PI to see if it can do an animated gif screensaver/slideshow type thing.

I implore you all to check out the trailer from whence this cinemagraph came. I had to flip one side of the water for the other since it wasn't looping properly, and that made me upset because that rushing water was one of the things that made this particular shot of the trailer so damned beautiful. This is one of my most anticipated films of the year.

I've always used this to create gif wallpapers, it isn't the best designed app, and it's stuck in Gingerbread hell, but it works.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.direxar.animgiflivewallpaper2&amp;hl=en

Hi, what are your encoding settings? This GIF is much larger than it needs to be and maybe we can help you tweak the export settings.

A good indicator is when you get more than 3-5x smaller with converting to HTML5 video. This image is 28x bigger than the transcode.

Accompanying music.

Offical website of the game (NSFW)

About (copied from the website): Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character.

The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box.

Katawa Shoujo contains adult material, and was created using the Ren'Py scripting system. It is the product of an international team of amateur developers, and is available free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License.

Your crossfade is pretty good, it blends in a natural looking way.

The camera wobble might be tricky, I only have virtualdub and the deshaker plugin (both free online) snow can mess with its tracking but it might be worth a try, it's quite a straight forward 2 pass process and there are plenty of tutorials on youtube.

Retaining particles in front of a masked area is also a bit of a pain, you can either add your own snow and manually track them over the mask (fade them in and out a little to avoid sudden changes in colour between your flake and the original that disappears) or create unique mask layers and cut small holes to reveal the relevant snowflake underneath the latter would work well on the scabbard....it is a fiddly task, but adding even two or three strategically placed flakes in front of your mask will really break up the 'cardboard cut-out' look.

With he blinking it's hard to know, as I can't see the raw gif, but I'd make sure the face in the final mask is from the frame closest to the blinking action to minimise shifting, cut out two parts of the blink if possible (the eyes half closed and closed) and place them over the mask, you can use them to animate the blink.

Don't forget to clone tool out the static bits of snow left in your mask too!

not sure what you are using to make these, but these two are great for freebies, lots of tutorials in the /r/ImageStabilization sidebar, it looks technical, but is pretty much setting two or three parameters running the first analysis pass and then running a second to steady it.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm

Here

I just made this one.

I used After Effects and Photoshop.

If you're interested I can show you how I did it and even upload the .AE and .PSD so you can see a working example.

EDIT

Here is the .AE and .PSD.

Via my dropbox

Just unzip the .zip to a folder/location of your choice. Everything will work as is unless you move the files/rename them.

The raw camera footage is still uploading, so I've used a pre-comp to be able to use the .AE file without it.

Enjoy!

(let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to explain them as best I can.)

Hello, I'm a bot! The movie you linked is called Shadow of the Wolf, here's some Trailers

A while back, I purchased the Gone Jackals album this came from. Has all the songs from the game on it and then some. I think it is available on Amazon.

Yup! https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Pick-Gone-Jackals/dp/B000QQZXWS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1491431113&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+gone+jackals

For Android devices, there are actually several apps that let you use GIFs as backgounds. I use this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.direxar.animgiflivewallpaper2&amp;hl=en

They do eat extra battery, but it's an awesome customization tool!

You're right. I was wondering if I would get responses like this from this one. I was actually hesitant about posting it. In fact, I sent it to a few people just to see if they spotted anything. There is something off about it. I faked the blades in 3d.

It is from a video, here is the source. The problem was the slight cloud movement. I couldn't get a clean mask around the blades, so removed them completely (only the blades) and composited in a 3d model I rendered in 3ds max.

I tried aligning to the original perspective as closely as I could, but there still seems to be something not quite right. The blades are moving in the proper direction. Maybe the blade fins are backwards? The blade shape is different from the original. It could be that the color is slightly off. There is a small bit of white noise around the blades, but you can only see that really close up. It could be that the blade movement is just too smooth. Maybe its that you are expecting to see some movement from the clouds.

Anyway, I can see from several of the comments I wasn't able to fool everyone.

I'm a Windows user and we have Deskscapes for that, but here's something I found after a quick search if that helps. I just have no clue what Quartz is. I just really wanted to see for myself if it's possible since I know Apple locks down a lot of features like that. Most methods appear to involve just setting a screensaver as the desktop background.

GFY link: gfycat.com/EnchantingUnconsciousEastrussiancoursinghounds

^(GIF size: 3.13 MiB) ^| ^(GFY size:241.92 kiB) ^| ^(~ About)

Could just be a still image. However the last I checked into making interactive desktops something like https://www.rainmeter.net/ might be what they have used. Unless something like windows 10 now supports other forms of media?

Yeah, I like those big ones. :p It's only unfortunate that they're pretty limited in what they can do until they blow up in size like crazy. I wish we had a better and widely supported format for this than GIF. :/

HTML5 videos (or any videos) compress much better but don't offer this kind of crispness which I think is a key property of a cinemagraph, and while PNG would be an improvement, animated PNG aren't widely supported. (the reason behind that at least for Chrome is that the group behind APNG dropped the standard and now they want people to use MNG instead, but Mozilla already dropped that from Firefox, so now everything's basically in a state of limbo)

reviews on the android store seem to say no.

$2.99 pro version (ad-free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.direxar.animgiflivewallpaper2pro&amp;hl=en

"lite" version (with ads and watermark): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.direxar.animgiflivewallpaper2&amp;hl=en

Hello, I'm a bot! The movie you linked is called All Good Things, here are some Trailers

View this Gif as a Html5 Video!

GIF size: ~9256 kiB || GFY size: ~538 kiB || Compression Ratio: ~17

^(Gif2GfyBot here, I convert GIFs subreddit to bandwidth-friendly and quick loading HTML5 videos!)

Yes!

If you're on Windows you can use Wallpaper Engine.

If you're on KDE you can use the Video Wallpaper plugin.

If you're on Mac OS X, I'm sorry but I can't help you.

GFY link: gfycat.com/CompassionateAstonishingAlbatross

^(GIF size: 845.41 kiB) ^| ^(GFY size:93.01 kiB) ^| ^(~ About)

GFY link: gfycat.com/ForcefulGreatDiscus

^(GIF size: 4.81 MiB) ^| ^(GFY size:168.01 kiB) ^| ^(~ About)

GFY link: gfycat.com/PastelFirstGenet

^(GIF size: 922.04 kiB) ^| ^(GFY size:142.60 kiB) ^| ^(~ About)

GFY link: gfycat.com/InsecureSilverCaimanlizard

^(GIF size: 995.29 kiB) ^| ^(GFY size:142.26 kiB) ^| ^(~ About)

There was support for it in XP natively, which they took out for Win 7 and onwards, however you can activate Dreamscene with a custom tool. This does take some effort as you need to convert the gif to a video, plus it unfortunately only accepts WMV or MPG files.

There may be a better method for this, but when I looked into it a few months ago this was the only solid solution I stumbled across.

Sorry about the dropbox link but i couldnt get them to upload to Imgur, kept failing, my first attempt is also in the same folder and linked below

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i6mmiwdx5ljcudv/oXgw93Khba?m

Just need to make the loops slightly smoother but im fairly happy for a first go

Depending on the Os of the computer running the projector you could use a .gif player. I've never used one but I have heard good things about this one http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Viewers/GIF-Viewer.shtml

Windows DreamScene. It's pretty great, it just uses a lot of energy to run, so don't use it on a laptop that's unplugged.

search "landlessness"

I bought it at a photo show, the discount brought it down to £50 (that's US$76 today). I bought the pro mac version (the ipad version, which I got originally, isn't nearly as useful: too many compromises). I used the Mac version on some timelapse movies I shot: https://flixel.com/cinemagraph/pxsg7sqt8er4w4i279xh/ and https://flixel.com/cinemagraph/ejr4xd4jojswd4538g47/ Decent software, not entirely sold on their hosting charges though.

Let me see what I can do. I had to clone stamp out the logo in photoshop. Let me see if I can figure out how to get rid of it with a layer mask in AE. If not, I'll just make a slightly cropped version and post it here.

EDIT: Here you go.

Get a pound and throw it in a jar. Usually lasts me like a year or two. Only need ~1-2TBS for a batch of dough (no matter how much you make).

Created from this Unsplash photo using the VIMAGE app.

It's a Vimage, not a Plotagraph, so I hope it can stay.

/r/vimage

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C26PJMP?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9beb-4819111bef9a&amp;pf_rd_r=RGHZXXDV9JVYJGD1Q30A

Get a cheap 'house server' or use your main PC (or even a raspberry pi), set up a webserver, and serve out all the pics to all the tablets in the house. Use a webpage with a meta-refresh tag to go to the next page/image.
That should handle all the cinemagraphs in gif/mp4 formats I think.

And a quick google, looks like can use something like this; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.autostart&amp;hl=en

To start up the browser and default to a fixed webpage that then starts the cycle.

No problem! About to set something up like this too. And as was about to delve into apps/self refreshing html local, found; https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/wjP6s5Q4fH8

Looks like you can set up a slideshow in Google Photos anyway. That /might/ work and for considerably less effort than setting up a webserver with all this stuff on (that I might do anyway as I already have the server and would want a bit more control).

*edit Doh, I'm a muppet. Already got this installed; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.direxar.animgiflivewallpaper2&amp;hl=en

Give that free version a go and see if it'll work for you. Download all your gifs/mp4's to a folder, point that to it, and it'll cycle through them all on the backdrop. Use a custom launcher and have a 'blank' page so you get to see them all, but you'd still be able to (if you want) launch apps over the top of it. Set 'don't turn off if charging' in settings. And that might do it crazy cheap/easy.