check out my photo of Tim Allem

Role play idea:

Everyone is Tim Allen.

Go.

Tim you are tearing me apart here

Role play idea:

Everyone is Tim Allen.

Go.

*a shy young Tim Allen walks into the room. he looks nervous, and is clutching a photograph of his own head&face. he accidentally drops it in the

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edit: whoa it's Ed Helms


second edit:

I am enjoying your databending a lot

I don't know if that's actually an accurate term for what you're doing because I am ignorant, but it seems right and it's cool

now that I've had some time to think about this, I'm not exactly sure what constitutes databending... like turning an image into sound is definitely databending, and that's the only thing I've ever referred to as databending or can distinctly remember being referred to as databending, so I'm tempted to say that databending is turning one kind of data into another very different kind, which would mean that no, the stuff in this thread isn't databending. as I said, it's all just a simple matter of using a filter over and over again and making sure it all holds together as a nice animation. the result probably seems a lot harder to achieve than it actually is!

nooo fish :(
hes restored

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Interesting! Any time I heard the term used, I thought it referred to image manipulation by directly editing the file date of the image in question, usually through intentional corruption. I wonder how I had such an inaccurate idea of what it meant.

No excuse to not notice it was just repeated use of filters though! I like them regardless

That sounds like an equally valid definition, honestly. I'm definitely only an amateur databender! Even so, check this out:

I turned Tim into sound with audacity, applied a sound filter, and exported him as an image again. Now THAT'S databending! I could do it a bunch of times with slight variations and put them together in an animation, but I've got other stuff to do. (Fortunately I've already done that a couple times in the past; here's the best one.)

Well I'm supposed to work on Atlantic Rim today but I made another Tim as a warm-up.

he's gone

gotta go fast.

as an artist, I must always make sure not to get stuck in a rut, which is why I've decided to start using a different medium. here is my first work with a photo of Ed Helms.

quick, somebody get a bucket. We can't lose ed helm too!

stop pulverizing this poor man

Lt. Fish is at the Helm!

Just try to keep those two separate from each other. The world can't handle a Hellam power couple.

How long do these take you to make? they've got like 300 frames per image!

anyway, some databent tims:

Starting off with the relatively tame "Reverse" filter in Audacity. The image is turned 180 degrees, and the red and blue values are switched. Boring.


Hard volume limit.This one didn't do a whole lot either.


"Phaser" effect. Now that's more like it!


"Wahwah" effect. This one is probably my favorite.


"Echo" effect. This could be very, very useful.


edit:

wet reverb effect

Wahwah is my favorite too! That's the one I used above.

As far as the time it takes to create these, look at the timestamps on my last three Helms posts. That's realtime, no backlog occurred whatsoever. Again, the things I'm doing here are probably a lot simpler than you think (though my years of experience with digital art can't hurt!) and the number of frames has almost no significance as a factor since I'm just hitting duplicate layer, then the key command for re-show filter, then inputting 1+ to whatever value the filter uses, over and over again. The only hard part so far has been settling on a way to make the animations loop, and I think I've solved that one for good now. (I get about 100 frames going, then copy every fifth frame back, in reverse.)

Maybe I should make a little tutorial for this?

Ahh, it's probably faster in GIMP. When I do it I have to save a new copy for every frame, which makes it take a lot longer.

Maybe I should make a little tutorial for this?

Yes. This. Absolutely.

Okay, I'll whip something up tomorrow. It's really quite dightful when yall come up with similar or tangentially related stuff in the silly thread, let me just say.

The tutorial has become so nifty that I'm going to make a new thread for it in the Projects subforum. Stay tuned!