Rising Sun Collage

A animated GIF collage of several photos of a sunrise.
Taken in November 2019, in Colorado, USA.

This was somewhat of an experiment and an early attempt at animation. Back in November, I took a photo of a sunrise. The sun kept rising and it kept being beautiful, so I took more photos.

Fast forward to today, where I put the photos together into a little GIF collage, using the animation program Krita. For the record, I really dislike Krita. Some of the tools don’t do what you expect them to (particularly copy-paste), and you have to download a separate hacky program to render animations into GIF files specifically. Still, I’m told it’s better than GIMP, and it’s completely free, so for now it’s what I use.

Unfortunately, this collage isn’t perfect, either. The original photos were of several sizes and several angles, and even re-cutting them didn’t quite get rid of the discrepancies. It creates a bit of a wobble to the picture, which I’m not sure if I like, as in a certain light, it makes it look more 3-D. The resolution of a couple of the frames are another casualty to the re-sizing process, however, which I can’t quite get rid of.

Shiny Things: Gormball Championship

Ah, a blast to the past. I used to be fairly large presence on the online pet game of Neopets… When I was a child, I dreamed of creating a comic series based on two of my Original Characters: Kevaar and Azzir. Or rather…Kevaar and Azzir as they would be if they were Neopets. Ha ha. In the Elder Scrolls universe, they are two Dunmeri. (In Talmenor, two degonti…but more on Talmenor later!)

But why am I telling you this and revealing my childish nerdy side? Well, to further improve my comic-drawing, I indulged myself and finally finished some of those old comics. Unfortunately the originals are lost to the depths of my paper drawer, so this first one I had to redo by memory.

A Darigan Eyrie paint a Gormball a silver color, so that a blue gelert is tricked into holding it too long and losing the Gormball Championship.