GIFs are a form of sharing what is on someone's mind without having to type out what you are feeling, or having to make a whole video. The form is midway between writing and video making as it combines both of those aspects to express someone's feelings/what they are trying to communicate. Personally, I believe that people like to use GIFs because they are a funny/short form expressions of something that they do not feel like typing out. Additionally, GIFs are sometimes more accurate to what someone is trying to express because they can show emotion, unlike texts. People usually share GIFs to translate what they are feeling into an understandable form. The demographic for GIFs is teens/early adult as older people do not really take interest in sharing GIFs as they would rather talk in person, or what have you. Since the demographic is targeted around this adolescent spectrum, GIFs are generally only shared by and for friends, not for someone's grandma. Unless you grandmother loves to share funny cat GIFs or such, she probably does not use them, same for other people such as you boss. When friends want to communicate an idea or get something off their mind, GIFs are a fast and easy way to quickly give someone an insight to their life and how they are doing, in a comedic sense usually. For creating my first GIF I wanted to do something complex, but not out of my capacity for the time I was permitted to finish the project in class. One thing that I can rely on is my name and my opinions on myself, and I am pretty cool so that was why I decided to do this GIF. Additionally, I wanted to use text and the jumping of text out of the GIF by using the three-dimensional shadows to give the letters that pop. I also enjoy color so I decided to make the letters colorful with a cool pattern to how the color was introduced. Lastly, I also wanted this GIF to be infinite instead of stopping then repeating over again, so I made all the letters disappear at the end in the opposite order that they appeared on the screen as to give the effect of them being erased. This GIF is more of an amusing take on the art form showing somebody falling/running forward. This one was less involved to make than the 2D GIF I made (shown above) because all I had to do was sort through the frames, and I did not have to insert letters, or do any drawing of such.
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