Similar to the bright Hadeko fashion style in Tokyo (selecting a few basic colors and repeating them throughout the ensemble) is Karan Singh’s illustrations of repeated colors and patterns. The Aussie known for his “playful interpretation of minimalism” moved to the metropolitan prefecture of Japan and has continued working with international clients like Appy Fizz […]
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Subtly-Animated GIFs of Landscape Scenes by Nancy Liang
Sydney-based illustrator Nancy Liang uses dark, nearly abandoned landscapes to tell intriguing stories. Using textured papers and mixed media, she draws out social, cultural, and personal narratives. Each scene contains subtle movements like a flickering light, billowing chimney smoke, and even a floating van. These small animated details, shown in the moonlight, add a sense […]
Celebrating 31 Days of Horror with Animated GIFs
Graphic designers Sylvain Rogé and Simon Lagneau are working on the next animated GIF to mark the 27th of October. Every day of this Halloween month they’ve created motion loops with iconic movie characters, including some of our favorite villains. We see Michael Myers trick-or-treating and Hannibal Lecter thinking of tasty human organs as he wiggles […]
The 80s Rule: Animated GIFs by Kidmograph
Although he calls himself the “90s Kid,” he clearly got influenced from the 80s too. Sci-fi, cyberspace and tons of neon parade his animated GIFs and video work. Kidmograph (Gustavo Torres) effortlessly creates futuristic worlds that resemble many 80s sci-fi and fantasy-themed album covers and movies like the original “Tron” and “Blade Runner.” Images © […]
The Vintage Animated GIFs of Bill Domonkos
Imagine one of those 20th century hunting paintings, but instead of the hunter aiming at a duck, he is pointing his rifle at a UPS box floating in the air. That’s a surreal and strange scenario, but perfectly in line with the mind-set of Bill Domonkos who manipulates archive film footage and photos and adds […]
Swirly Fun Animated GIFs by Ni Fong
If you look attentively at Ni Fong’s zoetrope-style animated GIFs, you can see technicality in it. It isn’t just skulls and butterflies dancing around randomly, each shape connects with the other and other—metamorphosing like an insect life cycle. It is incredibly made by this Brussels-based illustrator who also animated and directed this music video for […]
Animated GIFs in Bubble Gum Colors
Animated GIFs are often visually addictive, and for those of you constantly on Tumblr, you may have seen plenty there. But as I have mentioned before in past posts (here, here and here), there is an art to making these motion loops; some artists are really going the extra step. Zolloc is another name to […]
Wacky Animated GIFs by Romain Laurent
The first image would look funnier if accompanied by Michael Bublé’s song “Feeling Good” (“Birds flying high, You know how I feel, Sun in the sky, You know how I feel..”). That guy looks really happy flapping his “wings.” These animated GIFs were created by photographer Romain Laurent who is becoming internationally famous for them. […]
Getting High on Animated GIFs – Part 2
As crazy as the title of this post sounds out loud, Part 1 actually received a great number of visits (precisely 100,000 and counting), so it leads me to believe a lot of readers love animated GIFs! That’s a good thing, because I have another assorted selection by artists who take animation loops to a […]
GIF Artist A. L. Crego Makes Graffiti Pieces Come to Life
In collaboration with design studio Mutante Creativo, videographer A. L. Crego created a promotional trailer for the annual outdoor art festival Rexenera in Spain. Footage included the making of massive murals by international graffiti stars Dulk, Pixel Pancho, Aryz, Bordalo II and Nómada. Not being content with just a video, Crego (also a GIF maker) […]