Meta Sells Giphy To Shutterstock For $53M After Purchasing It For $400M In 2020
Meta had to offload Giphy after U.K. authorities ruled the original sale “could allow Meta to limit other social media platforms’ access to gifs.”
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Making Bread With Alex Boya: How The Canadian Artist Is Worldbuilding In Reverse With ‘The Mill’
Using Giphy, Boya is baking up an expanded universe called ‘The Mill’ to generate interest in a short film and/or series.
Enter A Film Festival Where Every Film Is Under 18 Seconds
This event gives new meaning to ‘short film festival.’
7 Can’t-Miss Events At Ottawa International Animation Festival 2017
From a Synesthetic Pub Crawl to a GIF-making workshop, here’s 7 events you shouldn’t miss at this year’s Ottawa festival
Artist of the Day: Skip Dolphin Hursh
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 thoughts of toy machinery and strange cellular activity. He explains more about how he arrived at this ongoing project in an interview with Giphy.
How Giphy Plans to Transform Animated GIFs Into An Artform
When Jace Cooke and Alex Chung founded Giphy, they simply wanted a convenient platform for sharing and searching GIFs. But