Mesmerizing Animated Masterpieces

For the 50th anniversary of the Edward Hopper’s death, a British digital agency, Verve Search for Orbitz chose to make the most famous masterpiece of the artist, by creating beautiful GIFs.

Daily Life Realistic Animated Illustrations

The New York-based graphic designer Leland Foster takes us in his visual universe where pictorial scenes subtly come to life.

Poetic GIFs of Starry Nights

In South Korea, the artist Hajin Bae, a.k.a Soulist Aurora, creates illustrations for numerous international brands. Here is a small fraction of his work

Poetic and Absorbing Wavy Animated GIFs

Illustrator James R. Eads collaborated with an animator: Chris McDaniel aka The Glitch, in order to push the concept even further. As McDaniel felt a real connection with the painter, he therefore contacted him to create this visual project.

Op Art GIFs

Abstract at a glance, the black and white lines animated by Prague-based artist Adam Pizurny vibrate to form sultry portraits of the female form. This series, entitled Black and White, incorporates work with 3D human models.

Handmade Kraft Paper Animations

From time to time we love to stop and marvel at the mathematical wizardry of artists and designers who make GIFs with code, but Sydney-based illustrator Nancy Liang takes an old-school approach with her imaginative scenes made almost entirely by hand. There isn’t a single element in her animations that doesn’t begin as a physical drawing or object. Liang works mostly with kraft paper cutouts and pencil drawings, all of which is carefully planned in copious sketches before each element is scanned and animated in photoshop.