Animated GIFs

 

    Animated GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) file is a graphic image on a web page that moves. They are most frequently used in web page ad banners. There are three different ways of creating an animated GIF. You can get multiple still images you created yourself and animate them. You can use a video you already own. You can get a video that is already on the web.

Here are some examples of what they look like.

SOURCE:http://www.kizoa.com/img/e8nZC.gif

SOURCE:http://www.christophniemann.com/media/2014/04/05rifle.gif

SOURCE:https://media.giphy.com/media/4aBQ9oNjgEQ2k/giphy.gif

SOURCE:https://media.giphy.com/media/buPZOJrHxDQqI/giphy.gif

SOURCE:http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/inline-1-batman-google-gifs.gif

SOURCE:http://25.media.tumblr.com/9db41ea6c7a4a27a8f8a608cf725ef8c/tumblr_mu3jof44Yv1stmjkwo1_500.gif

 

SOURCE:https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/80/c2/0f/80c20ff75ff81491101bf3f2adeedead.gif

SOURCE:https://media.giphy.com/media/10wSULrWN2iC88/giphy.gif

SOURCE:https://media.giphy.com/media/9sSrddsom3yb6/giphy.gif

SOURCE:http://www.opengeek.net/images/ogeek/omg/funny-cartoon-network.gif

     Here are some examples created by famous GIF artists.

Skip Hursh

SOURCE:http://payload191.cargocollective.com/1/4/140568/6138703/GIF_COLLAB_CINDY_12.gif

INSA 

SOURCE:http://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/tumblr_nfln0j8vwS1sqatlgo1_1280.gif

Dain Fagerholm

SOURCE:http://amusily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/14364860278647-hand-drawn-animated-gifs-dain-fagerholm-5.gif