Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...

Ade Olonoh, the founder of the anonymous Q&A site Formspring, is setting his sights on animated GIFs. Loop is an iOS app for sending text updates to all of your friends at once — à la Twitter — but ...

Creating cool animations doesn't have to be a tedious endeavor that consumes your life as you draw frame after painstaking frame until your fingers have been into twisted in arthritic claws. No, it's ...

Tired of your usual rotation of looping animations? Convert Live Photos and videos to GIFs in just a few taps with the iPhone's Shortcuts app. I've written for various publications, such as Gay Cities ...

The Pikachu character comes fourth in the top 10 most popular GIFs on Giphy in 2021. Image: The Official Pokémon YouTube channel Do you use GIFs when replying to your friends" messages? These little ...

Chrome: I love a good GIF party as much as anyone, but if I’m on a page with a constantly looping animation, it gets on my nerves pretty quickly. Google just released a Chrome extension that allows ...

Do you use GIFs when replying to your friends’ messages? These little looping animated graphics have grown steadily in popularity on social networks. As the end of the year approaches, Giphy, the ...

An animated image - the animated GIF being the most popular format - is more than a static image, but not quite a video. It's typically used for short animation sequences, and used to capture and ...

Gifs lit up Web 1.0 like Las Vegas—the torches, crystal balls, humping muppets, dancing babies, mailboxes opening and closing to indicate that you’ve got mail—all signaling that crimson castles, their ...

Nickelodeon Animation Studio has teamed with LoopDeLoop, the bi-monthly animation challenge organization, to bring the ever-growing ranks of talented animators and artists contributing to LoopDeLoop ...