SUN
Created on: October 9th, 2011
SUN
8-bit representation of a dream I had.

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October 9th, 2011
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Were you the green turtle? =|
October 9th, 2011
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Dafuq?
October 9th, 2011
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Now I want to play Mario
October 9th, 2011
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Fucking creepy.
October 9th, 2011
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Chain chomps are everywhere. In your teeth and in your hair.
October 9th, 2011
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It's wierd, I can watch this over and over and when"the moment" happens my heart jumps a little. Well done.
October 10th, 2011
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After the first 2 hours of my nonstop sunsunsun marathon i was struck by a deep and profound insight. The turtle was going to die no matter how many times i watched it. I am sad.
October 10th, 2011
(1)
5 for Caribou
October 10th, 2011
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Fantastic, really fantastic
October 10th, 2011
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the .gif is too big for the browser you fucking dipshit.
October 10th, 2011
(0)
An interpretation of the dream, you are dissatisfied with your life and are desperately seeking a new career path, you should continue to search til you find it or else you will remain dissatisfied.
October 12th, 2011
(1)
i watched for 5 minutes straight
October 12th, 2011
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Love it.
October 12th, 2011
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fuck you sun im invincible and i killed your bitch ass
October 13th, 2011
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you could reduce the size of this site drastically by using an mp3 and doing some background/foreground trickery.

good job none the less
October 13th, 2011
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I thought about both of those options, but:

1. I don't think mp3s can loop seamlessly.
2. Using animated GIFs in the foreground causes certain issues that I don't know how to solve. For instance, If I were to put the sun and the 4 guys with wands in the foreground, the animated pieces would have a thin, white border around them (something to do with the way transparencies in GIFs are processed?). It looks kinda sloppy, so I went with 1 GIF when I realized I could get it all in 1 GIF and under 8MB.

Apparently, APNGs are the solution to problem #2 - how do you make these kinds of files?
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October 13th, 2011
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General questions to YTMND:

1. Can you compress WAV files?
2. How do you make APNGs?
3. Does Sylvester Stallone do his own stunts?

Site sponsorship for the first YTMNDer with all 3 correct answers.
October 13th, 2011
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1. They can. There is a misconception here because YTMND lists the length of mp3 files incorrectly. Now, for shorter sound files I normally use wav's just because, but for a site of this length an mp3 should have no issues. Use audacity and zoom in like a mother fucker to get it exactly the length you want.
See:
chipschallenge.ytmnd.com

2. Animated GIFs don't support partial transparencies. What you most likely saw was your editor doing anti-aliasing, which GIFs don't like on their transparencies, hence white border. Remember that gifs are palette based, so they should have all one color for the transparency. This site has a good explanation for what I just said and also answers number 2 from your next set of questions:
http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/07/4-free-tools-to-create
-animated-png.html
Also see:
connect.ytmnd.com

1. Yes and no. A quick conversion you can do for the wav you've got is make it mono, which will half the file size without much noticeable difference. You can also reduce the sample rate from 44100, which will reduce the size again (but can cause a difference in the way it sounds.) Converting to 22050 and making mono got your wav down to 1.26MB (I used audacity.) Sound files aren't compressible usually, without changing the format.

2. You have to make the PNG frames in a separate editor, but there are several tools available. See this from a previous question.
http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/07/4-free-tools-to-create-
animated-png.html

3. Yes he does, but he is reconsidering after an incident during the filming of The Expendables.
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=18299

on a side note, i noticed your .wav is 29.987 sec long and your gif is 29.84 sec long
October 13th, 2011
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also the mp3 compressed to 469 KB so you know
October 13th, 2011
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Wow. You are a good guy. Thanks keyyek.
October 13th, 2011
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http://ytmnd.com/users/Volume
October 13th, 2011
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this is really well done and the surprise sync was what ean't the 5
October 17th, 2011
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Song title please!!!!???
October 17th, 2011
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NM found it.
October 29th, 2011
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Never thought I'd hear Caribou in a YTMND. Fantastic.
March 29th, 2012
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i'm so so sorry that i missed this