#“credit to the gifmaker 🥰 these are so nice !!”

[kitconnor]

if my gifs get reposted one more time i swear to GOD im quitting

[arcanegifs]

On Gifmaking:

So season 2's coming soon, and I wanna reflect on making gifs ever since I came back to Tumblr. I can't believe it's been 2 years of making gifs for this show!!!!! Look at how large my folder is lmao

And those are JUST gifs lol

Anyways, over time, my style has changed, especially how I color edit Arcane gifs. I kind of strayed away from a stylized filter color into just something that looks a lot more "natural" and works with the original scene.

Initially, I thought I'd save time, but I ended up not using my old arcane preset PSDs and resulted to coloring almost every scene manually. So in the end, it takes even longer to make them HAHAHA. It takes around an hour and a half for me to make a 10 gif set, basically. It also helps that I have a photography background, so coloring/editing is a lot simpler for me.

Here's a lil before and after of a dark scene (hiiiii viiiiiii <3)

Arcane is a REALLY dark show, but it goes for most of TV shows. Many of them are darker and harder to bring up the lights to make stuff look nice as gifs. Some people don't like to color their gifs, and that's okay. I personally just like color edited gifs more.

I've started learning how to upscale scenes myself, so that I have a better resolution and leeway to make things look "HD" more.

If you're wondering why my stuff look so "crisp", it's a combination of the scene's lighting, my sharpening settings on Photoshop and knowing how to upscale everything into 4k resolution. Of course, doing this needs an extremely beefy pc, which I am very lucky to own one.

Here's another before and after of a nicely lit scene. These are much, MUCH easier to do than all the darkly lit scenes because of shadows and lighting (caitlyn kiramman truly the rizzler <3)

I've been very lucky to be able to essentially take a nice, long break for like a month doing nothing after being so damn busy for the last year and a half, so it's nice that I was able to make a ton of gifs and be chronically online for a short while LMAO.

It's been so fun! But it's time to go back to reality lmao. I closed reqs for a bit because I was just so swamped with them the last few days, and I wanted to gif scenes that I like this time. I've done like 2 weeks worth of gifs. And you will see Vi a lot bc she's on my mind a lot heehee 🥰what can I say, she's such a babe <3

Here's a lil sneak peek, just look at herrrrrrr 🥰🥰🥰 and yeah, 4k upscaled resolution really helps making these tight crops, it's why i never went back to 1080p lol. It's how I’m able to make zoomed in gifs look decent (like the kirammountains gifset lol)

Thank you so much for all the support, likes, reblogs, and the nice tags you guys give. Yes, I can see and read all of them (both the nice and nasty ones lmao). If you have nothing good to say about the characters or my editing style, or anything related to the edit, please I beg you, just write a separate text post about it <3 If you have nothing nice to say, don't say it in my edits.

Lastly, thank you to the people who share my stuff outside the site and credit the blog and link them back here. I see you and appreciate you <3 You guys don't know how much I appreciate shoutouts and link backs, because people stealing my gifs is something that I've dealt with after making them for like a decade.

Tumblr is sadly not what it used to be in the 2013-2015 era. There’s definitely less activity as time goes by, so I appreciate all the people who credit and link back to this sideblog. Unfortunately, there’s more people who just repost them and it gets wayyy much more traction in other soc med sites. Yeah, ofc I get a lil jealous, but eh what can you do 😞 can’t really stop em.

I also don’t like putting watermarks because it personally looks tacky to me, but I understand why other people do it.

Anyways, if you reached at the end of this lil rambling of mine, thank you! I sadly might be busy during November because that's usually busy season, but I'll try to make time for making gifs of Season 2! Thank you and enjoy your stay on this lil sideblog :)

[neverbeforeandneversince]

hi again! firstly, apologies for this being so late. it's been such a busy weekend 😔😔 but i'm back (everyone cheers here 😹) i hope you do find more time to edit! as for finding them "basic" i definitely don't think that at all :) they're always wonderfully colored and gifmaking is a tiresome process!! give yourself credit bff, you deserve it! ❤️💚 speaking of giffing, what's your favorite taylor music video to gif? those all sound like such warm and thoughtful gifts aww 🥺 i hope everyone enjoys them!! as for what you could get for your mom - maybe something to keep warm during the cold times right now? like a sweatshirt or leg warmers or one of those slippers that always stay heated? i got something of the sort for my mom last year cause she dislikes the cold a lot haha. (ps super awesome that you want 2 support local businesses ☺️) what would be your ideal gift for christmas? exams have gone well, thank u!!! ahh still slightly nervous about one of them but fingers crossed everything's ok 🥰 i'm currently reading the bronzed beasts!! it's the last of a trilogy of books––and it came out earlier this year but i've only now had the time to get to it haha. i haven't heard of wish you were here, what's it about? malibu rising's on my tbr –– is it good!! as for recs, i do have some!! do you have any genre preferences? again, soo sorry for the delay!! i hope you had a wonderfully warm and relaxing weekend babes ♡ – ☃︎

omg you are completely fine! you are doing so well. aww well thank you so much! oooh that’s a tough one but I think LWYMMD and Blank Space are top contenders.

aww yes!! I was actually thinking of getting my mom nice cozy gifts like that. It’s always a win. how about you? have you gotten any gifts for anyone yet? It’s crazy how quickly the holidays are coming up.

oooh a trilogy! I haven’t actually read a trilogy before because I fear I’d lack the concentration for it 😅 but anyway! I hope you’re enjoying the one you’re reading now! okay well I’ll def have to keep giving Malibu’s Rising a chance then. I don’t dislike it, but so far I haven’t been superrr into it that’s all.

we finally got a Christmas tree this weekend and bought new ornaments! we also ate lots of good food and it was amazing. How was your weekend?!

please update me on the results of your exams! I’m sending you good vibes 💕✨🌿🌼