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@mothdogsgifs / mothdogsgifs.tumblr.com

gifs and occasional edits by @mothdogs! mostly doctor who with a smattering of other stuff. please do not repost my gifs. using them as headers or reaction images is fine.
Anonymous asked:

hi, sorry to bother! where do you download the hd episodes of tv shows??

No prob! It’s a mix of having pirated a lot of media during my youth, ripping files from DVDs I currently own with a program called MakeMKV, and random shared Google Drives. You can find plenty of links to public drives full of video files if you search the tag (”google drives”) on tumblr and poke around. Good luck! 

 Here’s a little gifmaking challenge! I wasn’t tagged by anyone but I saw it from @tennant originally :’) 

These gifs are all the same frame speed, but the ones on the right are hand-colored, lightened, and sharpened. I never realize how dull the original frames look until I put them side-by-side like this :O 

Gonna tag @carricfisher @notyoujamie @bisexualamy and whoever else wants to! Just say I tagged ya.

I regret only that this gifset can’t capture the way Wilson’s voice slightly catches with desperation when he says “Be there with me,” nor the breathy disbelief of his “Why?”  

Also worth noting that the song that plays over the last scene is A.A. Bondy’s Slow Parade, which includes lyrics wherein the singer’s lover dies, and the singer mourns the loss as “A dream where love was real.” So, y’know, there’s that. 

@bisexualamy tagged me in a gifmaking meme! The challenge is to recolor some of your earlier gifs and see how far you’ve come :o) 

I’ve actually been making gifs since 2015 but a lot of them are on an old computer and specced to Tumblr’s ancient resolution and size parameters. Instead I chose to revisit these gifs from when I picked gifmaking back up again last year! Not only has gifmaking become a lot easier/quicker with practice, but I finally settled on a standard size (540x280), font (Myraid Pro 16pt bold with 2pt black stroke), frame speed (.05 seconds), and I learned how to sharpen! Makes a world of difference I think. 

Give it a shot and let’s see your improvement, if you want! @randomthunk @shadowsweavers  @charlesdances and anyone else~