Category: art gifs

The Ascension of Man

Artist Unknown, (The Ascension of Man), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“We must try to remember everything, every movement, every stretch, every convulsion that made us how we move as we readily grow in our outer body that encompasses the planets, the suns and the moons in every other body that we touch, in every other mouth that we kissed, in every other language that we try to comprehend; for they are not the outside of a stranger, nor are they just images of our psyche, but the very being of ourselves, the dimensional levels of our very existence weaving colours in the tapestry of creation, yet the very non-existence of the template is proof of consciousness, of ascension, of Life.”
― AainaA-Ridtz, The Sacred Key — Transcending Humanity

Kevin Weir

Kevin Weir, “Jacob”, Computer Graphics, Vintage Photograph Gifs

 

Art director and designer Kevin Weir uses historical black and white photographs forgotten to time as the basis for his quirky—and slightly disturbing—animated GIFs. Having mastered Photoshop in high school, he found himself five years later “making black and white GIFs as a way to occupy myself during the downtime of an internship I had during grad school.” He shared the images on his Tumblr “Flux Machine” where they quickly went viral.

Weir makes use of photographs found in the Library of Congress online archive, and is deeply drawn to what he calls “unknowable places and persons,” images with little connection to present day, that he can use as blank canvas for his weird ideas. The tinted nature of the medium’s limited frames of animation and the creepiness factor add to the strangeness of the gifs.

Weir is now an art director at Droga5 in NYC, he also also animates music videos and sassy birds.

D. Baretto

D. Baretto, “Cycling Trivialities”, Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

D. Baretto graduated from the School of Fine Arts/ Tufts in Boston in 2016 with a BFA concentrating in illustration, animation and digital installation. He works from his studio, “Studio Barro”, locatied in Guadalajara, Mexico. Baretto has been directing several animation videos for musicians and brand-name commissions.