Cinemagraph

At first, I found the idea of making a portraiture gif to be rather daunting. After discovering the greatness of cinemagraphs, however, the project became quite fun. The process involves taking a still video and setting one frame as a static layer and then using the others to add selective motion, like in the hands flipping the pages. As a global ascetic, I tried for a moody feeling by shifting the subject to the right and adding a gradient vignette across the left. This added the negative and positive space I was looking to achieve.