The pond of colour

fluffybunny · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:33 am **(#1)**

Hi guys,

I recently purchased a time-lapse camera.
I set it up in my garden the other day to try and spot some local visitors.
Here is my first attempt using the output to make a Gimp animation.

I have used 20 frames of the video footage.
I ran each frame through G'mics Black&White->Pencil creating a new layer.
Ran those new pencil layers through G'mics Enhancement->Anisotopic Smoothing
Created a layer mask to exclude the pond area. Applied the mask to the Pencil layers. Then merged them down on to their original coloured layers.

I then scaled them down in size to try and keep the animated files to a small size for posting.

However the animated PNG file was still approx 8Mb.
So I made an AVI video of the animation so I could fit it under the 5Mb file limit.

Hope you enjoy!
fluffybunny

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 1:08 am **(#2)**

Cool effect, fluffybunny :bigthup

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Nice, like the mix between pencil and colour.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Those are really colorful birds...very nice.

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:41 am **(#5)**

fluffybunny: really cool effect and excellent work on the masks. getting parrots in your garden is extremely exotic to a swede, the most exotic animal i've ever had in mine was a swedish moose

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fluffybunny · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 4:35 pm **(#6)**

Thanks for those comments everyone, glad you enjoyed viewing it.

I was a little disappointed with the quality and size of the posted AVI. You should see the original 1280x720 animated PNG!

@Anmal - Exotic for some is Common to others eh?
I have caught on Time-Lapse camera some interesting visitors in the last few days including 1.5m Red Bellied Black Snake and a 'laughing' Kookaburra.
PS I'll keep my eyes peeled for wandering moose. However the 'moose' will likely turn out to be a 'mouse' in my part of the planet. Take care. :hehe

Cheers
fluffybunny

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:04 pm **(#7)**

fluffybunny: hehe, i suppose you don't get much swedish moose in your parts

. personally i'd love to see the kookaburra, i've never seen one on movie, just pictures. wouldn't mind seeing a little of the red bellied black snake either. any chance you'll be making new animations with those?

fluffybunny · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:58 pm **(#8)**

AnMal wrote:

fluffybunny: personally i'd love to see the kookaburra, i've never seen one on movie, just pictures. wouldn't mind seeing a little of the red bellied black snake either. any chance you'll be making new animations with those?

Hi AnMal,
Will have to wait for a better image of the snake, my camera was facing the afternoon sun, and there is a fair bit of lens flare. I'll try and clean the image up, but no promises

As for the Kookaburra, he didn't do much during his time in front of the camera, but I'll make a small AVI for you in the near future...

Today's variations are shorter (10 frames) animations of some green parrots - males & females sharing a bath.
I still had to scale down the images to keep the files < 5 Mb.
The PNG is animated, but I will include a lower quality animated GIF too for Internet Explorer users.

Hope you enjoy.
fluffybunny

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:39 pm **(#9)**

Beautiful Fluffy Bunny. Lucky you to have parrots flying around.

Erisian · **Posted:** Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:46 am **(#10)**

Fascinating stuff fluffybunny. I like the contrast between colour and Greyscale. Those parrots are beautiful.

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:02 am **(#11)**

fluffybunny: great job again! and again very exotic to a swede - parrots flying around in your garden, that's amazing.