A little over a year ago, Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck mashed up fine-art photography with animated GIFs, and the “cinemagraph” was born. Since then, a cottage app-industry has sprung up around this ...

This past summer, I sat down to think how I might incorporate more technology into my Art 1 classroom. My students had already created digital portfolios, but I wanted something more hands on, ...

Creating moving pictures no longer requires a dedicated app. Giphy, the online GIF database and search engine, recently launched GIF Maker, a graphics tool that only ...

What does the history of GIF art look like? This is a tricky question to answer because while there has been no shortage of animated GIF exhibitions, there is a dearth of documentation. Bond Street, a ...

Though there's no built-in fire animation for text in PowerPoint, you can use clip art to simulate the effect. Microsoft Office PowerPoint supports the use of animated picture files in the GIF format ...

Animated GIFs have been around for almost two decades, allowing users to create and share simple animations online. The file format has persevered despite its shortcomings (e.g., no sound), and in ...

GIFs are widely used in social media, messaging apps, marketing, and web design. They are simple, lightweight, and expressive ...

Forget naff YouTube pratfalls, Harry Potter or Ru Paul’s Drag Race loops – artists today are drawn to the dynamism and fun of the animated digital medium. And now, thanks to Pi-Slices, there’s a new ...

The period from 2006 to 2010 was marked by the rise of self-started social networks. Artists were sharing GIFs on Myspace before many migrated to their own collaboratively run blogs. These sites ...