The emergence of the animated GIF over the last few years has made short visual loops a regular part of our media diet, but the phenomenon is not an entirely new one. As Chris Baraniuk points out in ...

Your Facebook News Feed will soon become much more animated. Facebook has decided to begin supporting animated GIF images. An animated GIF is a graphic image that moves in a loop -- which is created ...

Recently my editor alerted me to the existence of a MetaFilter thread called “Gif that’s what’s for dinner.” (A-plus pun idea, C-minus execution.) In it, users shared and discussed their favorite ...

Gfycat, the startup that recently raised a whopping $10 million for its user-generated content platform that lets you creating silent, looping animations and videos, has now launched its first mobile ...

If you’ve been on the internet long, you’re likely familiar with GIFs. An acronym for the abstruse Graphics Interchange Format, they’re animated, looping images which feature cute animals and ...

Meet Orbo. He’s one of the most prolific and talented GIF artists on the Internet. His specialty is making GIFs that never end because they’re stuck in an infinite loop. I can stare at them all day.

When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

Honda is promoting its annual Summer Spectacular Event with animated GIFs that resemble the video clips people share on social media and in text messages, per a statement shared with Mobile Marketer.

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 ...