Category: gif
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GIFs from Akira, the 1988 video game for Nintendo’s Famicom system
Last night I booted up Akira on an NES emulator and did my best to live-GIF the experience. Akira is one of my all-time favorite films and I remember hearing rumors of a 8-bit videogame version released in 1988, but it was only released in Japan for the Famicom. 25 years later, some volunteers worked…
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WordPress Widget Spinner!
WordPress 4.8 came out last week and it’s full of all sorts of new widgets. I get to make a weekly WordPress comic for Torque Magazine, so this week I drew up a feature request for WordPress version 4.8.1 The WordPress widget spinner post originally appeared on Torque, where you can see my weekly WordPress…
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Fixing DC’s Batman wigglegram gifs
DC made an animated gif to promote an upcoming issue of Batman, which also teases a Watchmen appearance. It’s a nice gif that uses parallax scrolling to create the illusion of depth, but it does two things that bug the crap out of me: The animation only pans from left to right The animation alternates from…
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My process for 2D animations and game art with Hexels Pro.
The folks at 80 Level have recently published an interview with me about my process for creating 2D animations and game art with Hexels Pro. I’ve blogged a lot of my Hexels Pro “trixel art” here before, but this article is the most in depth I’ve ever gotten about the techniques behind that art. If…