Category: art gifs

Dave Whyte

Animate Gif by Dave Whyte, “Drops on a Pond”

Dave Whyte is a physicist by occupation and lives in Dublin, Ireland. His first geometric gifs riffed on computational modules he was exploring while in undergrad. His Tumblr, Bees & Bombs, is updated regularly with new animations created with Processing, an open-source programming language.

The artist’s tumblr site address is https://beesandbombs.tumblr.com.

Florian de Looij

Moving Through Eternity: Four Gifs by Florian de Looij

Florian de Looij first sat down with a copy of Photoshop when he was 12 years old and apparently he never got up. The Netherlands-based designer has been exploring digital animation and illustration ever since, and late last year started sharing his animation experiments on a Tumblr called FLRN GIF. Florian says he’s always been inspired by the likes of M.C. Escher and other artists working with optical illusions, something that has clearly influenced the direction of his design practice. He tries to make a new GIF each day.

Two Elements

Artist Unknown, (Two Elements: Water and Fire), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

Water
水 Sui or mizu, meaning “Water”, represents the fluid, flowing, formless things in the world. Outside of the obvious example of rivers and the lake, plants are also categorized under sui, as they adapt to their environment, growing and changing according to the direction of the sun and the changing seasons. Blood and other bodily fluids are represented by sui, as are mental or emotional tendencies towards adaptation and change. Sui can be associated with emotion, defensiveness, adaptability, flexibility, suppleness, and magnetism.

Fire
火 Ka or Hi, “Fire”, represents the energetic, forceful, moving things in the world. Animals, capable of movement and full of forceful energy, are primary examples of ka objects. Bodily, ka represents our metabolism and body heat, and in the mental and emotional realms, it represents drive and passion. Ka can be associated with security, motivation, desire, intention, and an outgoing spirit.

Neil Sanders

Neil Sanders, “Blobba, Blob Blob!!”, LoopdeLoop’s, July 2011 Edition

Neil Sanders is a Melbourne, Australia based Illustrator and Animator. He teaches illustration at Melbourne Polytechnic and is a co-founder of and contributor to LoopdeLoop, a blog and monthly screening dedicated to animated loops. He loves to make up characters and then bring them to life through animation, and he has a lot of fun working with other creative people on their ideas too.

Carl Burton

Four Gifs by Carl Burton

“Digital artist and animator Carl Burton creates quick atmospheric GIFs that blend elements of science fiction and surrealism. Glittering illuminated tentacles appear to twist through the dark while neon lasers emerge from deep pools of water. Much of what you see here represents Burton’s personal experiments, but the NYC-based creative also lends his illustrative style to images for long-form publications around the web. He works primarily with Cinema 4D, Photoshop, and After Effects, spending several hours or even days on a single GIF depending on its complexity.” – Christopher Jobson, Colossal

Nicolas Menard

Four Gifs by Nicolas Menard

Nicolas is a French Canadian graphic artist working and living in London. He makes drawings, prints, animations, books and interactive. His work has been exhibited and recognized by the Art Director’s Club (Young Guns 12), the Adobe Achievement Awards, Pictoplasma and Grafika. His films have been screened and awarded in festivals around the world, including Ottawa, Annecy and Anima.

His clients include The New York Times, Ray-Ban, Vanity Fair, the Harvard Business Review, Universal, Google Play, ARTV & la Cinémathèque Québécoise.

Ygor Marotta and Ceci Soloaga

Ygor Marotta and Ceci Soloaga, Projected Animation

Artists Ygor Marotta and Ceci Soloaga of VJ Suave were recently invited to participate in the Walk&Talk art residency on São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. The duo transformed their projected street art animations to happily dance across the trees, cliffs, and shores of the the island including the Lagoa das Empadadas, Porto da Ribeirinha, Cachoeira do Cabrito and Lagoa das Sete Cidades. Using long exposure, VJ Suave captured their interventions with nature, creating the two GIFs seen here.

Micael Reynaud

Animation Gif by Micael Reynaud

Freelance designer and stop-motion animator Micaël Reynaud creates animated GIFs. His process involves the use of video techniques like slit-scanning, time-lapse, and various forms of masking to create what he refers to as “hypnotic very short films.” Indeed many of these animations are pulled from fully realized videos which you can watch on his Vimeo channel.

Reynaud’s work has not gone unnoticed in the art world. His pigeon GIF was a finalist in the first Saatchi Gallery Motion Photography competition, and he recently won the 2014 Giphoscope International Art GIF contest.