What is a gif?Short for Graphics Interchange Format, the GIF was originally developed as a data compressor to help images download faster. As with Stop Motion Animation, it works in frames that are compressed to create small files that play in a repetitive loop. Industry level software used to design gifs are After Effects, Photoshop & Flash.
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Digital artist Paolo Čerić is currently studying information processing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Croatia where his experiments with processing and digital art have resulted in a steady stream of fascinating animations which he publishes on his blog Patakk. Čerić tells me that he began about two years ago knowing very little about digital art or animation, but was fascinated watching other coders create art with code. For a while he simply tried to mimic other animations he’d seen, but lately has truly developed his own personal style that varies from pulsating geometric patterns to glitch art and everything in between.
Skip Hursh
Skip is a Designer, Animator and Artist from the midwestern USA, based in Brooklyn, NY. He works as a Designer at Tumblr and was previously an On-Air Designer & Animator for Nickelodeon. In 2014 he was named as part of ADC Young Guns 12. His designs are largely made up of simple geometric patterns.
Laurene Boglio
Laurene Boglio is a French graphic designer and illustrator based in London. She graduated from the Lycée de Sèvres in Paris and then got a master's degree at the École Superieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg in 2010. Her gif designs are largely illustrative and monochromatic; black and white.