Do note that the effect is much stronger (at least for me) if the moving object goes outside of the perceived image bounding box - the http://bit.ly/1bUkBJQ example in the original article.
3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
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Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#12Why specifically GIFs? It's a generic animation technique, works with any video format.
As was pointed out many times, if you have control over your site, don't use GIFs for video and animation. Use proper video formats (WebM and etc.). It will only save space and loading time and improve quality.
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#13Kinda reminds of that other visual effect, where they add circles to a photo and give the illusion of the people in the picture being naked. Won't post the link here cause NSFW, but I can imagine it being a related effect: adding visual markers to change perception.
The interesting effect of bubbling is not so much that people appear naked, but that the original picture, containing clothed people (typically bikinis), appear naked.
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#14Why specifically GIFs? It's a generic animation technique, works with any video format. As was pointed out many times, if you have control over your site, don't use GIFs for video and animation. Use proper video formats (WebM and etc.). It will only save space and loading time and improve quality.
Basically: GIFs autoplay on people's Tumblr dashboards, proper video formats don't, and that's pretty much all people are trying to achieve in the first place.
If we just had some sort of file-extension/media-type (.webg, maybe?) that signalled to a browser "I'm a video container, but treat me like a gif, by defaulting to autoplaying, looping, and muting me", we'd replace gifs instantly.
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#15Why specifically GIFs? It's a generic animation technique, works with any video format. As was pointed out many times, if you have control over your site, don't use GIFs for video and animation. Use proper video formats (WebM and etc.). It will only save space and loading time and improve quality.
Basically: GIFs autoplay on people's Tumblr dashboards, proper video formats don't, and that's pretty much all people are trying to achieve in the first place. If we just had some sort of file-extension/media-type (.webg, maybe?) that signalled to a browser "I'm a video container, but treat me like a gif, by defaulting to autoplaying, looping, and muting me", we'd replace gifs instantly.
Facebook does this for videos uploaded to its services (Facebook, Instagram) and shared on feeds. It works quite well there.
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#16I think this would work without the bars, by just having the object pop out from the boundary box.
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#17Why specifically GIFs? It's a generic animation technique, works with any video format. As was pointed out many times, if you have control over your site, don't use GIFs for video and animation. Use proper video formats (WebM and etc.). It will only save space and loading time and improve quality.
Basically: GIFs autoplay on people's Tumblr dashboards, proper video formats don't, and that's pretty much all people are trying to achieve in the first place. If we just had some sort of file-extension/media-type (.webg, maybe?) that signalled to a browser "I'm a video container, but treat me like a gif, by defaulting to autoplaying, looping, and muting me", we'd replace gifs instantly.
It'd also have to be compatible with all browsers (including primitive versions of IE) to cover the other reason people use gifs.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
In case anyone has trouble searching for this, the term you're looking for is 'bubbling'. Parent poster has already warned you that this could presumably be considered NSFW somewhere (apparently)
TIL There is a subreddit for this. http://www.reddit.com/r/bubbling .
I'm more surprised these days when there isn't a subreddit for something...
Re: 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
#19is it okay to not be impressed with this 'effect'?
Why wouldn't it be?
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#20is it okay to not be impressed with this 'effect'?
Thanks for asking first, we'll get back to you.