So I made a new friend today!
passive_mealy: are you online?
Frigid Drift (Paul): yes
passive_ mealy: Its Awesome getting to no new people. Were are you from?
Frigid Drift (Paul): who is this btw?
passive_ mealy: Great so wut kind of women are you into? Personally i like guys that have a big d--k.. do u have a really hard one?
Frigid Drift (Paul): can you shut up and pay the child support already
Frigid Drift (Paul): my new wife is very abusive
Frigid Drift (Paul): I think I'm also going into labor
passive_ mealy: oh wow.. My profile picture is sorta old. My --s looks much better now and I love putting on sexy clothes. Have you ever had sex with a girl only wearing spandex? I love it!
Frigid Drift (Paul): are you even paying attention to me? ;-;
passive_ mealy: U sound like a really cool guy. I want to show you my cam. wanna see what im wearing now?? I Promise i DONT disapoint!
She’s bald, but not for long!
Patreon Changes - GIFs
Hey everyone, just looking for some feedback. You don’t have to be a patron to reply, but I was considering doing “GIF Bundles” in place of the time I’m using making advanced gifs for Ask Frigid Drift and such instead of for YouTube. Since a GIF post is about 4 seconds long, I’d post a GIF Bundle per 5 animated posts. My previously stated limit for charging for Patreon was a 20-second animation, so 5 gifs at 4 seconds matches that. I’d still charge for full-length animations (if I make any at all), but while I’m devoting my time to GIFs I thought this would be fair. I may also change the reward rates in the future. Any thoughts or comments on this change?
Thank you gift for lost-void for Awesomenauts! Played it for a long while, surprisingly fun MOBA style sidescroller! Add me on Steam if you want to play. Also, if you have Smite, I’m on there as well. Add FrigidDrift to Smite!
Thanks, lost-void, for Awesomenauts ;-; You are a true hero to me, let me know what kind of sketch you want so I can repay you for that!
Anyone know when this game might go on sale?
Paul, your gifs are super high quality and it annoys me because mine always look like virtual poopoo. How do you make gifs without the colour degradation.
Most important thing to know about gifs: they’re based on how many colors you use! Imagine a gif’s colors as a box of crayons, if you can color your picture with 40~80 colors, you have a good gif. Now, gradients use hundreds of colors just to get from one color to another. See our example gradient below:
When you export your gif, you’ll notice it looks more like the example below:
This is because the gif has run out of usable colors (read: “crayons”). So the gif loads based on how many colors you use, and depending on the resolution. A small resolution means more animation, quicker loading time, but fewer color choices. A large resolution means more colors and less animation. Now, with Tumblr’s restrictions, you’re only given 1mB of gif to upload per photo. 1mB gives you about 40~80 colors and < 100 frames of animation, as well as a limit of 500px wide (aka low resolution). Take the example below, this is a highly gradiented picture with over 200+ colors. This would translate very poorly as a gif.
On the other hand, the photo below has exactly 4 colors, making this a very good picture to animate with, and it will load very quickly since each color is reused on so many pixels. The gif doesnt have to “put down and pick up different crayons” as it were, so it draws the frames quicker if there are fewer colors.
I hope this has helped any, and if anyone has any more questions about gifs, please ask me so I can be more clear about a specific topic.
TL;DR - Check the bold section for the optimized gif settings.
I saw several askblogs there with red squares with numbers on their avatars. Can you please enlighten me to their meaning?
Back in the “a few months ago” days of Tumblr, there used to be red numbers instead of pretentious blood orange numbers in the inbox new message notifications. People would put a 1 or infinity sign or 0, depending on how they would act. The 1 represents “please send an ask to me, I’m an ask blog so I’ll answer your question!”. The infinity means “lol send as many questions as you can!” and the 0 means “why isn’t anyone sending questions..?”
