ClicksyPicsWiggle animations and anything old timey!

I hope you’re not getting sick of the wave animations, I’ve been practicing to get them more realistic.  At first I had the fellow in the boat wave, and that just looked cheesy.  So I settled on moving the oar, but then it was boring, so I added the bird.  I think the main problem with this animation is that it’s limited to 6 frames.  I wanted to try to trim them down (I’m sure load time on this site is already a bear for some people), but in this animation it was just too limiting to make for fluid movement.  I guess the best option would be more frames and a smaller size.  I’m not totally pleased with this animation, but I learned a lot!

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1904 - Willie, "the terrible," under grandma's care for a few days in the country. (Small boy with geese and ducks, with reflection in pond.)

5 sections on the geese were cut out for movement here.  Then they were cut out again in the reflections and lined up to match the animation on the top.  Then my brain exploded.

I would have liked to animate the ducks to the left, but the wiggle is so strong there I don’t think it would have been very realistic.

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1900-1920 - Around the Dead Sea. Man floating with book and umbrella in hands.

I learned a lot creating this image.  Getting water right has been a challenge.  I used two different techniques on the water.  The bottom area is a repeating pattern, the top is just a bit of semi-transparent movement in 3 areas.  Besides the wiggle and water, there are three animated elements in this image, can you find them?

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I believe this is is Trajan’s Kiosk, on Agilkia Island.  Here is the wiki page, which also has a current image. Seems in the 1960′s, they moved this monument from the island of Philae because of high waters due to the construction of a dam on the Nile.  I believe they got the date from existing images of the site.  With a quick search I was able to find another flooded view from 1906 here.

I had trouble dealing with the warping of the kiosk on this image, but wanted to try out the water effect.  I used a free program, Sqirlz Water Reflections, available at CNet here.  The resulting gif was then chopped up so the top is wiggle between the two sides of the stereo, and the bottom was the Sqirlz gif.  I added too many frames, which is why I’ve sized it down a bit.  I would prefer to do the water by hand, but that’s taking some practice.  There just aren’t any tutorials about how to create flowing water in an existing animation, especially with only 2 to 4 frames.  And then taking that water and integrating it into the animation in a way to retain the 3d effect.  There are, however, plenty of tutorials on how to make crappy ugly fake looking water in just a few frames.  Maybe if I figure it out with a simple technique I will post one.  If anyone knows of some good water tutorials, I’d love to get a link.

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Stereograph shows three children on the beach. One wades in the water while two stand in the sand. A woman, sitting on a log, and an older boy, standing beside her, watches.

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Thank goodness for the evolution of cool and comfortable clothing.  Several great old beach images here.  #16 looks suspiciously like bathing machines, but the clothing suggests perhaps a later era.

Another colorized image.

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