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JERRY BECK (LA)
AMID AMIDI (NY)
Animated GIFS by Zach Cohen
October 23, 2011 7:40 am


Tel Aviv-based animator Zach Cohen posts one new animated GIF loop every week on his Tumblr Ye Animated Git. There aren’t a whole lot of them posted yet, but the ones he has made are creative and fun.

spitandspiteDotcom says:
10/23/11  12:35pm

wow. this gives me a great idea.

also, how cool is the immediacy of vision that technology allows us nowadays? So guessing he did this in flash w/ a gif export? anyone know?

Jonah says:
10/23/11  1:49pm

What’s your great idea? You can just go and say that and not tell us.

And what do you mean by “immediacy of vision”?

Tim Drage says:
10/24/11  3:46am

if you have a good idea you should execute it not tell people about it :)

 
spitandspiteDotcom says:
10/24/11  11:20am

Ah you’re right, I guess I was just typing out loud and thinking “duh, you should do that too, it looks neat and fun”, “great” was definitely a verbal mistep. Apologies.

Oh, and immediacy of vision is basically a doodle can turn into a cool animation real quick nowadays which I find super awesome. No buying expensive equipment and such like back in the day. For instance, I’m screen printing shirts. I have an idea (or vision) and print it up almost immediately and it’s done and out there you know? Not a lot of hurdles other than the $10 it cost to rent out the studio space and a couple bucks for shirts and such, neat right?

Another way is like if you have a cartoon idea (or vision) and draw it up and it’s done almost immediately. Maybe I should’ve phrased it as “Excited!!! Do thing fast that in head! Cool!!!”

For example:

http://www.spitandspite.com/justforagoof/

See, so like that drawing/idea is silly at best, then, some minimal effort (5 mins, it took 2 mins just to get my voice memo right) and BAM!!! Extra silliness :D

 
 
 
amy says:
10/23/11  2:36pm

thanks for posting these, Amid! It’s a really great reminder of how good a simple, short, hand-drawn animation can be.

 
Trevour says:
10/23/11  5:42pm

They’re all pretty fun over on his Tumblr. Followed! These would go great with some tempo-appropriate music loops. Of course then they’d have to be something other than GIFs!

 
Dagan says:
10/25/11  6:27am

Really fun, great style.

Nice thinking to have one a week… I’ll be tuning in
to check out each one. :)

 
Mic says:
10/26/11  7:39pm

LOVE this. Thank you.

 
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