Halftone Animated Avatar

[LoLBert]

I'm going to attempt a halftone animated avatar. Don't try and stop me. Going to post how I'm doing.

Well enough. How does it look?

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[Fracture]

No! Please stop before its too late!

[LoLBert]

Ok, I finished the first GIF.. 7 frames, so the next one has to be 7 frames too..

[Tetris]

...Can you explain to the more un-knowing and dull characters in this forum

Not me of course

Just

Other people who don't know what you are talking about

[LoLBert]

Ah, you'll see. I think I'm almost done.

Here's the second animation

[LoLBert]

OH HEY it works!
I'll fix that.

Here it is on white background:

(btw, sorry for triple post)

[LoLBert]

Ah, I see what I did wrong.
No wait. I think the program I used to make it a GIF screwed it up.

Yeah... I'm not sure how to fix this.

Anyone know a program that can make GIFs?

[nienhaus1]

Those look pretty awesome, I might use one if you don't mind. Can I use your first one?

[LoLBert]

This was tedious, so sorry no.  :I
Going to be my avatar, was just seeing if it could be done, but

HEY I got it working a bit.

[Tetris]

Oh I get it

[Menen]

This was tedious

how? You fill the black with the blue, and the white with a blue/white checkerboard.

you can do that in paint.net in like, 10 seconds

[LoLBert]

First I had to draw up two animations that were the same length. Then I had to cut out each frame individually and apply the halftone, merge everything for all slides. Had to come up with a way to loop them well enough ran into problems merging them into a GIF, doing all of this at 2:00am.

That's all tedious; and I'm not complaining.  If it wasn't so, I'd like to see other people make some. These seem really cool.

[Katadeus]

What did you use for making the gif?

[LoLBert]

Easytoon. Then Photoshop Elements to apply the halftone.

[Mold]

Can someone PLEASE explain noob-friendly how this works