Thread by @pinot

Trying to capture Donald Glover’s motion in MacPaint.

MacPaint doesn't have layers for onion skin drawing. But at least it has copy paste \o/

Line test with MacroMind Video Works.

Every single pixel matters. And dances.

Close enough 😬

GIF test.

Examining @donaldglover’s shirtless dance.

Time-lapse on MacPaint.

Synchronizing.

Synchronizing the first 15 seconds.

Don't catch you slippin' up
Look what I'm whippin' up
(high res bitmap)

In-between checking for the first 152 frames in MacroMind VideoWorks/Director 1.0

The workstation.
- Macintosh 128K with MacPaint 1.5 & Summagraphics MacTablet.
- Macintosh SE with MacroMind VideoWorks & Apple 1GB External SCSI hard drive.
- BMOW Floppy Emu for data transfer via SD card.

Entering the next 200 frames. Currently 189 frames

The dancing pixels | music by @iamdicess

With mouse (left). With drawing tablet (right).

Dance like Donald Glover

Close enuff 😅

Pixel art machines:
- Drawing tool: Macintosh 128K + MacPaint
- Animation too: Macintosh SE + MacroMind VideoWork
- Both connected with LocalTalk

315 frames total so far.

To animate the dance properly, I examine from the video of the choreographer herself @SherrieSilver. The #gwaragwara in pixel animation art :)

The sequence. #pixelart

One of the challenge for traditional motion capture: need to create the motion based on the suggestion. In this part, Donald's feet are out frame. Need to suggest where his feet land, spin & stop.

Close enough 🤓

I think I nailed it.

In case you want to create a flipbook animation, go ahead and print the sequence.

I'm so humbled with the positive vibes & reactions. Thank you, everyone!

So far so good. I think. 😁

GIF test

GIF workflow:
- MacroMind Director 1.0 - export as PICT sequence
- Copy to SD card via BMOW’s Floppy Emu
- Open the PICT sequence in MacOS X with Graphic Converter software
- Batch resize & export as GIF animation

A month later: 470 frames, 38 seconds of Donald Glover dance. Timelapse of the actual MacPaint files.