Animated Illustrated GIF Research

Contextual Research

Maori Sakai

Maori's work is something I have only just found when completing this task but it is truly beautiful. Her use of pencil, detail and delicate colour mean her illustrated GIF's are something so pleasant and mesmerising to watch - I really feel as though I am in her world. Maori is no animator, and uses frame by frame hand-drawn imagery, later complied, to make her simple yet beautiful GIF's.








I honestly think I am in love! Check out more of Maori's work at her website here

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INSA!

I have been following the works of fine artist, designer and graffiti artist Insa for years now, loving and hating work along the way to his now very big success. In researching illustrated animated GIF's I stumbled upon his "GIF-ITI" works and found them to be pretty awesome and such a cool idea (why didn't I come up with this!?)






Creating live GIF's is clearly a painstaking process and there is no way of cutting corners for hand painted artwork on this scale.

For Rockslide Festival 2014, Insa created a GIF for his up and coming GIF-ITI website and app by hand painting 8 individual works onto the designated space (below)

Once each painting was complete, he took a photo and complied the images afterwards resulting in this animated GIF:




I really like the use of colour, boldness and shape in a lot Insa's graffiti and what I like about these GIF's is that these qualities have not been lost in the overall product.





Check out more of Insa's work at his website here
...and his GIF-ITI website here

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Also whilst having a dig around for illustrated GIF's, I came across the absolutely mind bogglingly amazing work of Belgian animator Nicolas Fong (Ni Fong). His work has just recently been featured on the Juxtapose website.

The below GIF's are created using Adobe Flash software and the thought, colour and use of considered movement that has gone into these animations is staggering. Each GIF displays a character or series of characters from the depth of Fong's mind, with no particular message other than to shock, confuse and hypnotise as far as I can see.

I personally haven't ever come across any animated GIF's as detailed and complex as these and that seems to be the overall consensus as Fong's work is becoming more popular and recognised.

Check out more of his trippy work here









Fong has made a few pretty cool videos incorporating his animation and GIF techniques, one of these being a music video for band Arun Tazief:



Arun Tazieff - Those Visions Have No End from Nicolas Fong on Vimeo.


Also I couldn't go without posting this video - so awesome!



Forever Pavot - Green Nap from Nicolas Fong on Vimeo.