I had a couple of interesting gif requests this week. One was of a ferris wheel a client created in Corel Draw, I had to bring it into After Effects, and get everything separated into layers. In order to get the seats to be correct, I had to animate them individually and I tried to give them a slight swing. This is a lower res version, it also doesn't seem to want to post to blogger....
Another was a request for an avatar for a forum. They wanted to have Ryu from Street Fighter shoot a Canadian Goose out of the sky... At first I panicked slightly thinking that I had to figure out to hand draw this. Then I thought wait this is for an avatar... most people use pre-made animations.
Problem: how to remove Ryu from street fight footage
Solution: Find a free gif someone already made
Problem: The hadouken attack only goes vertical
Solutions: Have Ryu appear to jump while doing it
I also found a free online gif of a goose flying
Problem: how to make the goose look dead
Solution: In After Effects, use cc scatterize to turn goose to ash
