The hardest way to make a GIF

# Summary The author created a GIF using an intentionally complicated method involving a vintage plastic camera, home film development, manual scanning with a digital camera and LED panel, frame-by-frame alignment in photo editing software, and command-line tools to combine the images. The process transformed 36 exposures of black-and-white film shot on a 1990s Lomo ActionSampler camera into a final animated GIF through multiple manual steps rather than using standard digital methods.