Tag: digital art

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.

Bill Domonkos

More Animated Gifs by Bill Domonkos

Bill Domonkos is a filmmaker, GIF maker and stereoscopist. His work combines 2D and 3D computer animation, special effects, photography and manipulated archive film footage. His work has been shown internationally in cinemas, film festivals, galleries and museums.

“I view my work as a collision and recombination of ideas. My process unfolds gradually and spontaneously—using found materials such as archive film footage, photographs, and the internet. I experiment by combining, altering, editing and reassembling using digital technology, special effects and animation to create a new kind of experience. I am interested in the poetics of time and space—to renew and transform materials, experiences and ideas. The extraordinary thing about cinema is its ability to suggest the ineffable—it is this elusive, dreamlike quality that informs my work.” -Bill Domonkos

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.

Robin Davey

Animated Gifs by Robin Davey

Based in London, Robin Davey works as a freelance illustrator, animator, designer and director. Recently he’s been working with Wired Italy,

“Warring Godzillas from this month’s Wired Italia. For a column discussing the shifting symbolism of the franchise from its roots in post-Hiroshima nuclear fears, to the environmental allegory of its current big-budget incarnation.”

– Robin Davey

Daniel Borreto

Daniel Borreto, Unttled, ( Creatures in the Basement ), Photographic Gif Loops

Daniel Borreto is an accomplished photographer and artist. He often uses his art and combines much of his personal art with photography to create some stunning images (photography and illustration). Daniel also creates fascinating Motion Graphics through simple Giff loops. Borreto uses a Canon EOS REBEL T2i for many of his photos. He will typically take the photo and then using Photoshop, create Giff images making a fascinating,visual loop.

Matthew Lucas

Four Endless Loop Animation Gifs by Matthew Lucas

Some of the great looping gif animations bY Matthew Lucas.  “The original version of the GIF format was called 87a. In 1989, CompuServe devised an enhanced version, called 89a, which added support for animation delays (multiple images in a stream were already supported in 87a), transparent background colors, and storage of application-specific metadata.“

Many thanks to Andrew Davidson at http://littlelimpstiff14u2.tumblr.com

Matthew Lucas’s site:  http://mathewlucasdesign.tumblr.com