A Comprehensive Guide:

asktheboywholived:

To Making GOOD RP gifs:

The kind that people wanna like… look at…. n’stuff. 

Because… y’know… I get a lot of asks about that too. 

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Well…. first off….. 

This is gonna be really fucking long… 

Second off! 

GET A DECENT QUALITY CAMERA!!!

Because no one wants to be looking at this shit.

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and if you don’t have a decent quality camera…. 

Well…. Make sure your acting is on point?

And all might be forgiven.

… Probably.

Now… that aside… how does one know if their gif is decent? 

Well here are a few pointers…

LIGHTING: 

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It’s hard to enjoy a gif with shitty lighting. 

For example… 

The Wash-Out: 

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No one wants to look at your eyeballs and your nostrils floating in a featureless abyss. 

The Phantom: 

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Well… there’s SOMETHING there… I think… ? *twilight zone theme-song plays* 

The Power-Outage: 

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Guess what? No one will want to look at your gifs… if they can’t fucking see you.

So… let’s try this again… 

Hey… It’s daytime… in the sun? No problem. 

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Hey… it’s… like… not as bright out? No problem! 

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Hey… It’s the middle of the night and you’re sneaking out to go… like… shag or something? Cool. 

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That’s my shagging face. 

No it’s not… I’m kidding, I promise… I’m sorry, ignore me

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