This morning’s Daily Create took a little thought and quite a bit more work than the last couple, which were really just “take a photo and upload” DCs. After mulling over ideas on the drive in to work, I settled on creating an animated GIF from a beautiful noseride.
In this day and age, of course, there’s a lot to choose from. One could go classic and dig out a Youtube video from about 1967, with perhaps David Nuuhiwa or Micky Dora. One could pay homage to Joel Tudor, who is arguably the one most responsible for the reemergence of classic longboard style. I settled on Justin Quintal as a phenonemal example of a surfer who can put the board right where it needs to be to hold 200 lbs out on (and over) the tip.
The GIF itself wasn’t that tough. Starting with Quicktime, I grabbed a clip from Youtube.
After I had the video in Quicktime, I trimmed it down to the 4 seconds I wanted and saved the file. I imported it into Photoshop using the “Import > Video Frames to Layers” option. I cut lots of frames out to reduce file size, adjusted the delay between frames, added in the text, and Exported for Web.
It took about 30 minutes to handle it in Photoshop, as I played around with the delays, file size, etc. I’m also a little rusty on making GIFs. I’m reasonably pleased with the result.
I had initially imagined I’d superimpose my face on each frame to put myself on Quintal’s board, but the video didn’t really call for that, as it’s impossible to really tell who’s riding – unless one knows Quintal’s style really well.