![]() Published via the Guardian News Feed plugin for WordPress. That day will be sooner that we think – and worth the hype. But one day a real artist will follow in the footsteps of today’s pioneers and create a digital masterpiece that is profound and true. The art of this century is headed into uncharted territories that will have as little to do with Turner-prize conceptualism as with traditional painting.Īt the moment, the technology defines what is possible, and gif art is more interesting for how it is made than for what people are making. Where will this lead? Somewhere totally new. It is natural that visually gifted young artists today will take this veteran’s lead and want to draw on a screen as well as on paper, to play about with gifs and experiment in gif-iti. It is therefore fascinating that he finds the iPad such a useful instrument. Hockney is a real artist whose craft skills are beyond doubt. Are they masterpieces? That’s not the point. His iPad drawings are joyous responses to a new medium. No artist has been quicker or more successful than Hockney in using digital media. If you get sick of all the endless hype for silly animated gifs and other online “art” – the quotation marks really are required for a lot of this stuff – just close your eyes and think of David Hockney. The amazing opportunities offered by new technology are hardly something artists can or should ignore. It was this or another vodka-fountain ice sculpture.īut I haven’t the heart to get too angry about gif-iti. This is the kind of bollocks PR companies think is art. The giant cosmic gif was sponsored by a drinks company and has the feeling of a contrived publicity stunt invented by marketing folk. Whatever, the real record here is for the World’s Daftest Hyping of Digital Art. Rather the process of making it involved a colossal image. It seems inaccurate to call the gif gigantic. He has painted a repetitive horizontal graphic image large enough to be seen from space, which was filmed over two days from a satellite to create an animated gif. Just click the download button and the GIF from the and hype collection will be downloaded to your device. You can choose the most popular free hype GIFs to your phone or computer. We regularly add new GIF animations about and. Now the British street artist (virtual street artist?) Insa, who specialises in gif-iti, has made media waves by creating “the world’s largest gif” in Brazil. The best GIFs of hype on the GIFER website. And it’s now become a hugely popular “art form”.Ĭartoon dogs, flying babies, op art abstractions – all are being touted as the latest cool art in gif form. It allows brief pieces of animation to be easily shared online. ![]() ![]() The technology behind gifs – which stands for graphic interchange format – has been around since 1987. And because communication is at the heart of this historical leap, it instantly and constantly creates new opportunities and challenges for artists. The industrial revolution was a meandering process compared with today’s acceleration. We must be experiencing the fastest rate of technological change in human history. ![]() So where is art headed in the digital age? Can we see the future yet? If you can't achieve the file size you require with these methods, consider resizing the image to smaller dimensions or cutting the animation duration.This article titled “The world’s biggest gif? Art’s biggest hype more like” was written by Jonathan Jones, for on Monday 26th January 2015 15.04 UTC The fuzz factor represents how similar colors can be considered as equal. It will give poor results for converted videos or photo slide shows, where most pixels between each frame are significantly different. It may give huge file size reduction in some cases when images have large, static areas, e.g., a recorded screen capture of some program. ![]() The results heavily depend on the nature of the image. This option keeps the first frame in the background and makes unchanged parts of the following frames transparent. This will not do anything for most GIFs but can be useful in some special cases. This method will search for identical or very similar consecutive frames, remove them and merge their display duration. Useful for long gifs with a high frame rate.Īnother option is to remove only duplicate frames. The frame drop option can remove every second, third, or fourth frame to reduce frame rate and, therefore, file size. It makes multiple variations of your input image, and you can choose the one with the best size/quality ratio for your needs. This tool shrinks the GIF file size by reducing the number of colors in each frame.Įach GIF frame can use up to 256 unique colors, and by reducing this number, you can achieve a smaller file size. This is the default method and should work for any GIF. You can adjust the compression level with a simple slider to get the best result for your use case. It can reduce the animated GIF file size by 30%-50% at the cost of some dithering/noise. GIF compressor optimizes GIFs using Gifsicle and Lossy GIF encoder, which implements lossy LZW compression. ![]()
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