35 Beautifully Animated Photographs a.k.a. Cinemagraphs
What do you get when you mix a fashion photographer, and a master of animation? If you said beautiful gifs, then you are 110% correct! Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg have teamed up to bring us beautiful animated photographs, a.k.a Cinemagraph. These Cinemagraphs are more than a picture, but not quite a video. Their main goal is to visually illustrate a short story. To give you a comparison, think of the magical newspaper from the movie Harry Potter.
Now you are probably scratching your head and thinking how in the word are these different from a GIF(Graphics Interchange Format)? An animated .gif is usually a sequence of stills pulled from a video, combined together and repurposed into a .gif. Cinemagraphs are different because Jamie and Kevin use a single photograph while adding a living moment within it. The process takes many hours of manual editing. If you wish to know how it’s done, check out the following articles:
- How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects
- Cinemagraph Tutorial
- How I Made a Cinemagraph
- Cinemagraph/Subtle GIF Tutorial
- How To Make Your Own Cinemagraphs: A New Take on GIFs
- How jamie beck and kevin burg create their popular animated gifs
These gifs have been attracting attention like crazy in the last few weeks, we respect this art form and would love to share it with the world! Today we have collected some of the best gifs that Jamie and Kevin have created! For more inspiration visit Jamie’s Tumblog Fromme-toyou.tumblr.com.
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In fact, ‘The shining’ one is from that site!
The way that only certain elements in each cinemagraph were selected to be moving, they force your eye to focus on those few things. It’s like in poetry when a few words are repeated over and over throughout the poem, or in music when a chorus is repeated. LOVE it!
this is Harry Potter papernews? xD
15 Examples of gorgeous cinemagraphs and not one of them is based on Kubrick:
http://www.rawthemes.com/?cat=47
These are just stunning, feeling inspired we made our own here:
http://www.ciconline.co.uk/blog_mod/the-future-of-animated-gifs/
What do you think? Has any one found a commercial use for these?
Hello!
I just made my own gif. but I can’t figure out how to upload it to anything and my computer won’t play it when I open it. The only thing that works is when I save it as a html but then I can’t upload that to any website. I was wondering how you uploaded these gifs on here? Thanks!
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Yeah, cinemagraphs are definitely on the up, Beck & Burg did a great job (re)introducing them and adding a contemporary twist to photos..
In fact some of us have been inspired to start a collection of our own over at http://www.funnyfarmmedia.com/tags/cinemagraph ..
Yeah, cinemagraphs are definitely on the up, Beck & Burg did a great job (re)introducing them and adding a contemporary twist to photos..
In fact some of us have been inspired to start a collection of our own over at http://www.funnyfarmmedia.com/tags/cinemagraph ..
Turns out they take a lot of work to get right, but it really is worth the effort in the end, when they end up looking amazing!
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Love love love this!
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Amazing.. I love the last gif image of Jack Nicholson
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