Dogsbody.org » GIF http://www.dogsbody.org Diary of a mad man Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:04:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Revolving head http://www.dogsbody.org/2003/04/revolving-head/ http://www.dogsbody.org/2003/04/revolving-head/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Dogsbody Revolving head is a post from: Dogsbody.org

]]> I had this idea ages ago, I have absolutely no idea where it came from but I suddenly realised that instead of the normal picture of me I should do something special. Then I came up with the idea of a rotating head!! Tell me if you like it, I think its rather cool, it certainly took me long enough to do!

For those of you sad enough to want to know how I did it. The effect was done by me repositioning my PC camera to in front of my window, there is plenty of light there and also a lot more room. I then positioned myself on my swivel chair and tried to line my head and back up on the central spindle of the chair (This is a lot harder than you think). I captured a 30 second avi file of me spinning around and around. I then edited the file to pick the best 360 degrees and to try and line up my head position in the start frame with the end frame. Paint Shop Pro v5 has this great utility for converting avi files into animated gifs, then with a bit of trimming and editing of the timing, the file was created!!! Easy as that!!!

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