MetaFilter posts tagged with gifs

Three Frames

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:57:54 -0800

Three frames. And then three frames again. And repeat. See also by presumably the same person or persons: keggers of yore and aloha friday, which are completely different, but also very much fun.

The Dance of the Galilean Satellites

dkg — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:43:11 -0800

Time lapse animations of planets and satellites. See what an amateur digital astrophotographer could do a decade ago. This is what the animated gif was designed to do.

Liberating Images Since 2004

castironskillet — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:16:30 -0800

There are many picture blogs, but there is only one SidewaysPony. As one regular user so aptly put it, this ingeneously simple site is "the most repulsively, exquisitely, disastrously, wonderfully addictive little corner of the internet." [poss. nsfw]

Cyriak

fungible — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:08:27 -0800

Cyriak's animation mix an excellent montage of animated gifs by a true master of the form. (youtube)

A Monty Python art lover, perhaps?

taz — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:41:10 -0800

(Danger! Danger! Silly .gif images ahead!) A little something to file under "wacky web": ballOOns Museum German web site, featuring classic paintings and sculpture with a dollop of goofy animation thrown in for fun. After you enter, click "Gemälde" and "Skulpturen" in the new window to view the galleries.

Time for Space Jiggle

bluedaniel — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:13:16 -0800

Experimenting with images using animated .gifs, Jim Gaspernini presents stereo images on the screen by simply putting the right and left images in an animated .gif. (more inside)

Su — Mon, 01 Jul 2002 18:42:37 -0800

Pixeljam is a "celebration of the pixel." Tiny GIF animations are resized to fill your browser window, resulting in giant blocky washes of color. Make sure to read the info, as there are some potentially important notes in there.

TiggleTaggleTiger — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:40:47 -0800

A short Japanese action cartoon rendered entirely in animated gifs. Really impressive stuff.
Would someone please translate the 'little match girl' one at the very bottom?
So many instances recently where I've wished I spoke Japanese...

mathowie — Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:14:32 -0800

Unisys has spoken. They've finally admitted that most creators of web graphics will not be held liable for their silly $5,000 licenses. I guess it's not time to burn all gifs yet.