Illustration and GIF Creation on Procreate
GIF history
A course by Natalia Rojas , Designer and Founder
About the video: GIF history
Overview
“In this lesson we will learn about the history of the GIF, what it is and why it is so popular.”
In this video lesson Natalia Rojas addresses the topic: GIF history, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and GIF Creation on Procreate. Turn your illustrated characters into animated GIFs step by step with your iPad Pro.
Partial transcription of the video
“HISTORY OF THE GIF Welcome to this unit. Here, I'll show you the steps you need to know before starting our final project. In this lesson, I'll explain the history of the GIF, how and when it was created and the way it's used nowadays. Let's see. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, or in Spanish, formato de intercambio gráfico. The GIF was created in 1987 during the Super Mario Bros. boom. The idea of this format was to transfer moving images with less weight than a video and in color. The first GIF we know in history is this plane that seems to fly in an infinite loop. Originally, ...”
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Course summary for: Illustration and GIF Creation on Procreate
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Software
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Areas
2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Character Animation, Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Natalia Rojas
A course by Natalia Rojas
Natalia Rojas is the director of the graphics collective Los Naked, a group of designers that like to draw, dance, cook, and tell stories. Los Naked emerged almost seven years ago, while Natalia was still studying Visual Arts. Once she finished her studies, Natalia took a course in traditional animation using pencil and paper. From then on, her work focuses on the moving image, another form of telling a story.
She has worked with clients like Revista Semana, Avianca, El Malpensante, Sad Magazine, Editorial Santillana, Shock, Fondo de turismo, Colombian design brands like Breathe and Tuá e Muá, and social and educational platforms like Sentiido and Usted mismo.
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