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 ...

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 ...

Skip Dolphin Hursh works as a designer and animator for Nickelodeon in New York. Skip uses his free time to create personal work that includes handsomely designed looping animated GIFs that invoke ...

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease on life ...

Prepare to drive your mates mad with the social network's new DIY GIF feature YOU can now make yourself into a looping “GIF” picture and share it on Facebook. The social network has quietly started ...

How to create animated images that are safe and accessible for all. Contributors An animated image - the animated GIF being the most popular format - is more than a static image, but not quite a video ...

Opinions on animated GIFs range from pure hatred to unabashed overuse. “Hide your eyes,” wrote one reporter on CNET. Meanwhile, Tumblr, which is the undisputed platform for animated GIF enthusiasts, ...