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Pixel art games aren’t retro, they’re the future
It’s clear that there’s more going on with most of these games than simple revivalism. “Our goals are never to rely on nostalgia as a way to create positive reactions to our art,” says Nathan Vella, co-founder and president of Super Time Force and Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP (above) developer Capybara Games. “Certainly, nostalgia is a factor with pixel art, but it isn’t the beginning nor the end of the style. We believe that pixel art is just that — an art style, no different than realistic 3D or traditional 2D. It can be interpreted and manipulated differently by every artist, resulting in wildly different aesthetics under the same general umbrella.”
Two years ago, artist Rafael Varona caught the world’s attention with a series of animated GIFs that depicted magical worlds trapped inside tiny glass bottles. The success of the “Impossible Bottles” series led to a number of new illustration gigs, and Varona eventually moved from Berlin to Amsterdam to focus on animation. But he never stopped thinking about those tiny glass bottles.
“It was clear that I always had to do a second part,” he says. “In between jobs I finally sat down and took some weeks off to concentrate on what I want to put into my bottles this time. Out came an insane robot and a naked giant golden goddess.”
GIFs in slow motion, GIFs in beautiful black and white, GIFs that zoom in on the action. What’s the better way to describe a “Pak salto to a stalder Shaposhnikova half” — words, or a moving image?
25 wonderful years. Thank you, Animated GIF.
Messages supports animated GIFs | The Verge Forums
Oh yes. This changes everything.
Tumblr assembles a team to create live animated GIFs from the 2012 presidential debates
Tumblr says it’s hired a “crack team of GIF artists” that will provide “instant animations of the best debate moments, from zingers, to gaffes, to awkward silences.”
The latest episode in PBS’s excellent Off Book series explores the explosion of animated GIFs as a creative medium some 25 years after the invention of the GIF format itself. Previous episodes have explored typography, papercraft, product design, and generative art, among other creative disciplines.
More Fez gifs!
So I wrote a review of Fez this week, and decided to use some animated GIFs in an attempt to express things in a supplemental way. Also, everyone loves gifs. So here they are.
Google adds animated GIF filter to image search
A boon for those of us with private animated GIF collections, and it will be sure to come in handy even for those who just want a quick way to let someone know how much their forum post has crashed and burned.
In the age of YouTube and cameraphones and TiVo, we’re increasingly inundated with moving images. But the animated GIF lets us stop and ponder a single moment in the stream, to resee something that otherwise would zip by unnoticed.
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