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Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by swashboon »

shashashasha wrote: post #9
devindotcom wrote: post #4

10 frames is a little scanty, but I think the idea is great. I'm afraid most of my favorite gifs won't fit, but using this type of display is forehead-slappingly obvious - now that they've done it, of course.

Hi, thanks! 10 frames is a little short right now we agree, and we're working with our manufacturer to get even more. The main constraint is the registration accuracy between the lens and the print, which gets super hard when printing more than a few frames.

Have you tested making "loops" with larger frame counts by example printing out a strip and taping the ends together and spinning it to create a movie effect? Does that make sense?

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by BSeward »

This is super cool. I've looked a little at lenticular printing for 3D prints but sourcing the lenses was a little more effort than I needed. I'd pay well over material cost to have someone else handle assembling. If you add an option meant for that I'd be all over it.

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by AdamTReineke »

swashboon wrote: post #21
shashashasha wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, thanks! 10 frames is a little short right now we agree, and we're working with our manufacturer to get even more. The main constraint is the registration accuracy between the lens and the print, which gets super hard when printing more than a few frames.

Have you tested making "loops" with larger frame counts by example printing out a strip and taping the ends together and spinning it to create a movie effect? Does that make sense?

This wouldn't work smoothly because each image would be, for example, 2 inches wide. You may have several frames per image, but then your eyes would have to jump two inches to the next frame. The old style zoetrope would have a much cleaner effect.

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by shashashasha »

kadjar wrote: post #22

Is there really no way to see the pricing structure before I upload things? That's frustrating.

That's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly!

For now, some price/sizing deets:

$12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card

$12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square

$15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard

$15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by shashashasha »

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #12
shashashasha wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! Yes, we are planning on having a way to integrate with Gifpop. We're talking to a few gif app makers and hopefully will have something put together soon! (for the interested, we're currently built on node and express, which has been really great for prototyping and building out new endpoints that require lots of processing. our previous website, http://meshu.io , was built on python/django)

Awesome! Thanks for your answer. Looking forward to that.

Yes thanks! If you have a specific usecase, please feel free to email omg@gifpop.io and we'll let you know when we have more information!

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by shashashasha »

AdamTReineke wrote: post #25
swashboon wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tested making "loops" with larger frame counts by example printing out a strip and taping the ends together and spinning it to create a movie effect? Does that make sense?

This wouldn't work smoothly because each image would be, for example, 2 inches wide. You may have several frames per image, but then your eyes would have to jump two inches to the next frame. The old style zoetrope would have a much cleaner effect.

That's actually one reason why we're limiting things to up/down rotation also — the spacing of your eyes makes it hard to display lots of frames accurately when you're rotating it left/right. And zoetropes, so cool! We really want to try some of these out too: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/the-first-animated-gif...

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by adamryman »

sarah2079 wrote: post #13

This is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video. My nieces (ages 8 & 10) would love to use this to make prints of themselves in action, but it would be easier for them to be able go straight from a video taken with a phone to a printed product.

This might help http://gifmachine.xwl.me/

Re: Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

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Post by shashashasha »

BSeward wrote: post #24

This is super cool. I've looked a little at lenticular printing for 3D prints but sourcing the lenses was a little more effort than I needed. I'd pay well over material cost to have someone else handle assembling. If you add an option meant for that I'd be all over it.

Thanks! What do you mean about adding an option for 3D prints? Do you mean doing the layering on our end? We could get you viewing angles and such so that you could upload prelayered imagery through the website normally, would that work?
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