Thursday, September 4, 2014

Jack-O'-Lantern

I wanted to make sure to get this up and out to you before you start writing all of those Halloween articles.  This one is nice and subtle, but creates a great ambiance.  I almost wish the original clip have a candle flame that flickered a little more, but overall I think the effect here is nice.  Hope you can use it!



This cinemagraph was created using footage from my free stock footage blog, Beachfront B-Roll.
The specific clip used, "Jack-O'-Lantern", can be found in the post "2 Clips for all of you 'Weeners"

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Thin Smoke

One can argue that this "technically" isn't a cinemagraph.  When compressing to an .gif, the other small bands of smoke were lost, so I abandoned then to leave this single thin strand.  I thought I would still include it, because it may be very useful for those of you who write/blog about smoking or health.



This cinemagraph was created using footage from my free stock footage blog, Beachfront B-Roll.
The specific clip used, "Thin Smoke", can be found in the post "2 Stock Footage Clips are Presented Secondhand"

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Power-line Sneakers

This has to me my most subtle animation so far.  If you choose to put this on/in your site/blog/article I'm pretty sure 85-90% of your visitors may not even see the motion.  This was also the HARDEST clip to loop.  I couldn't repeat the motion because I couldn't find a good loopable point with how sporadic the shoe was moving in the wind.  I had to, for the first time, apply a reverse motion at a good downswing point.  It was challenging, but ultimately worth the time.



This cinemagraph was created using footage from my free stock footage blog, Beachfront B-Roll.
The specific clip used, "Power Line Sneakers", can be found in the post "1 Clip is on the Line"

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Active Ethernet Ports

There really is nothing like the cool yet active green LED blink of an active connection, is there?  Great image to use for any PC, Networking or Tech related article.



This cinemagraph was created using footage from my free stock footage blog, Beachfront B-Roll.
The specific clip used, "Ethernet", can be found in the post "4 Clips Crank it to Eleven"

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