By invitation from 
https://steemit.com/art/@everlove/invitation-collaborative-art-journey-rejuvenation-this-is-your-invitation-to-collaborate-whatever-your-expression-bring-it-on
to use this image
and do our stuff.
In this case I started finding various creatures that inhabited the original image and pulled them out of the crowd using photoshop and image ready to create the animated gif.