9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | Tommy: Type One (Wing Nine), The Idealist (sometimes called The Optimist)

↳ More information about the Enneagram, Type One: here & here

9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | TK: Type Three, The Achiever (sometimes called The Performer)

↳ More information about the Enneagram, Type Three: here & here

9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | Owen: Type One (Wing Two), The Activist (sometimes called The Advocate)

↳ More information about the Enneagram, Type One: here & here

hi Heather! which of your gif series is your favourite and why? and do you have a favourite gif set?

Oh maaan, this is hard!

it’s like picking a favorite child! amongst a mormon size family of children because I do too many random series lol

My "firstborn" series, the 126 + hobbies/interests has a special place in my heart because it was the first gif series I ever attempted to do. You can tell based on the quality the farther you go back but I did enjoy learning the basics of photoshop while working on that series. (this is my favorite set from that series)

My most successful child is definitely the tk/carlos + touch series. I think I gained a good majority of my 911ls followers specifically because of that. I do love making those and I think they're some of my more aesthetically pleasing sets... (this is my favorite set from that series... or maybe this one because of episode bias lol)

but the real answer is probably... the enneagram series… it really showcases the level of absolute unhinged hyper-fixation I was experiencing at the time… I was really out here researching and psychoanalyzing these fictional characters, for multiple hours of my life, enough to assign them all an enneagram type?? What was I doing with my time??? didn't I have a full time job?? (yes, I did. lol)

but I do think I absolutely nailed their types. 😂

(this is my favorite set from that series)

Thank you for the ask!

It was a fun little exercise to look back on some different gif series I've done. I’ve thought about making a post to pin the top of my blog that links all the weird little series I’ve done but… do people do that? Idk this is the first fandom I’ve ever made gifs for so I’m not sure what is typical for gif makers, I just make shit up as I go along.

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. I really want to start making my own gifs but I can't figure out if there's a way to do it without paying for some kind of app. I love your gifs and I was wondering if you could tell me how you make your gifs. Also, do you use a screen recording app?

Thank you for liking my gifs, first off, that’s very nice to hear! 💜

I personally do pay monthly for Adobe Creative Cloud and use Photoshop to make my gifs. I’m not familiar with how to use other free programs/sites that people use to make gifs from, but I do know it's fully possible to have amazing gifs made from them. Here's two posts I've seen that talk about using those free software: here and here.

I taught myself how to make gifs via a variety of random gif tutorials here on tumblr that I found by google searching. I wish I could tell you there was one easy tutorial I followed and just immediately could make them, but I really pieced things together from a bunch of different ones and then used trial and error to figure out the basics. I think this blog may have been one I used as reference, but it's been about a year so I couldn't be 100% sure. I will say that once I did figure out the basics, the blog @clubgif has been a really helpful resource for trying out different experimental things on top of that. It's been awhile since I've done anything like that (just because of time and real life), but my 911 Lone Star Enneagram series came as a result of wanting to try out different font effects I saw through different posts on there.

As far as screen recording goes - I do use screen recording just on my laptop (by using Windows+ALT+R) on occasion for things outside of 911LS episodes. For example, this Brian podcast set and this Ronen set were from screen records. 99% of the gifs I make from the episodes though are done from downloads of the episodes. I've been downloading them from this folder that @3416 is fucking amazing for uploading the episodes to. The gif quality will depend on how good the video quality is that you get the frames from, so screen recording is never the best tbh, but sometimes it's the easiest or only option.

I hope this helps at least a little bit. If you really want to learn to make them, I say go for it! Mess around with some of the free software and see how you feel about it. But also don't expect your gifs to immediately look perfect. This is one of the first gifs I ever made:

compared to one I just made recently:

I hope think you can tell that there was improvement between the two. Just be patient with yourself and don't be afraid to post things!

I think I’m just tipsy enough to finally finish the Owen gifset for my 911LS + Enneagram series. I feel like I’m forging a new path here making a set entirely for Owen ngl. It will probably get about 2 notes lmaoooo

9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | Carlos: Type Two, The Helper (sometimes called The Giver)

↳ More information about the Enneagram, Type Two: here & here

9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | Paul: Type Five, The Investigator

↳ More information about the enneagram system here & source of Type Five specific information: here & here

9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | Mateo: Type Seven, The Enthusiast

↳ More information about the Enneagram, Type Seven: here & here

9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | Grace: Type Nine, The Peacemaker (sometimes called The Mediator)

↳ More information about the Enneagram, Type Nine: here & here

9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | Marjan: Type Eight, The Challenger

↳ More information about the enneagram system here & source of Type Eight specific information: here & here

9-1-1: Lone Star & The Enneagram | Judd: Type Six, The Loyalist (sometimes called The Skeptic)

↳ More information about the enneagram system here  & source of Type Six specific information: here & here