{"id":112,"date":"2008-07-15T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=112"},"modified":"2008-07-15T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T19:33:08","slug":"a-major-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/a-major-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"A major milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/alex_gifr.jpg' alt='alex_gifr.jpg' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Looks like they&#8217;ve gotten started on marketing for the <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.madagascarmovie.com\">movie I&#8217;m working on<\/a>.  And they&#8217;re using some of my animation in a bunch of the promo materials.  This is it, man, I&#8217;ve made the big time!  Forget about feature films.  Projected celluloid is so old-media.  Animated GIFs are where it&#8217;s at!  I won&#8217;t hurt your eyes by posting &#8217;em on the front page though.  Click below for the full effect.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here they are in all their glory&#8230; the frame rate isn&#8217;t quite right, and these are just individual characters lifted out of a longer shot, so they don&#8217;t loop correctly either.  But they were nice enough to turn off the motion blur, so you can actually see the poses.  This was literally the first shot I animated on this movie, so it feels like ancient history by now.  If you&#8217;re in the mood for a critique, feel free to pick apart what you see here!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madagascarmovie.com\/downloads\/signature\/alex-sig1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madagascarmovie.com\/downloads\/signature\/gloria-sig1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madagascarmovie.com\/downloads\/signature\/marty-sig1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.madagascarmovie.com\/downloads\/signature\/melman-sig1.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like they&#8217;ve gotten started on marketing for the movie I&#8217;m working on. And they&#8217;re using some of my animation in a bunch of the promo materials. This is it, man, I&#8217;ve made the big time! Forget about feature films. Projected celluloid is so old-media. Animated GIFs are where it&#8217;s at! I won&#8217;t hurt your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/a-major-milestone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A major milestone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-self-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}