Vivian Wu: Snowflake Generator
walk cycles
Rotoscoped animations of walk cycles from video games.
i love the way they move through space
Taras Skytskyi: The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX
A lot of rules and diagrams.
Paul Robertson GIFs
Pixel artist supreme.
Anime Rain GIFs
Only Anime & Pixelart Rain
Chris Coyier: CSS Animation Libraries (CSS-Tricks)
There are an awful lot of libraries that want to help you animate things on the web. These aren't really libraries that help you with the syntax or the technology of animations, but rather are grab-and-use as-is libraries. Want to apply a class like "animate-flip-up" and watch an element, uhhh, flip up? These are the kind of libraries to look at.
I wholeheartedly think you should both 1) learn how to animate things in CSS by learning the syntax yourself and 2) customize animations to tailor the feel to your site. Still, poking around libraries like this helps foster ideas, gets you started with code examples, and might form a foundation for your own projects.
Back to Bits
Back to Bits, a curated animation project featuring the collective works of more than 40 artists from around the world, showcases a series of animated GIFs inspired by retro video games. This second round, or “level,” in the Back to Bits series is called Super 16, and is a tribute to retro 80s and 90s SNES games.
Back to Bits was channeled by the nostalgic desire to go 'back to the bit era' when games were measured in bits, NES 8-bit and SNES 16-bit.
The project serves as a lighthearted creative outlet to bring like-minded artists together to share work, celebrate their love for these games and inspire the next generation of gamers.
Back to Bits contributors are professional artists from various creative industries including illustrators, animators, comic book artists, concept artists, directors and designers who share a passion for video games. Artists were asked to reinterpret and create a seamless looping animated short GIF inspired by an NES game of their choice.
vivus.js - svg animation
Vivus is a lightweight JavaScript class (with no dependencies) that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearence of being drawn. There are a variety of different animations available, as well as the option to create a custom script to draw your SVG in whatever way you like.
Ori Toor GIFs
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
Yule Log 2.015
Yule Log 2.015 is a collection of short films created by various artists that are bringing the yule log tradition into the digital age. Warm up your next holiday party and play the films on loop, or pick ‘n choose your faves and enjoy them at your leisure.
Paul Irish: Why moving elements with translate() is better than pos:abs top/left
8 Mind-Bending Animated GIFs By Micaël Reynaud (Co.Design)
Famous GIFs.
Codrops: Original Hover Effects with CSS3
Awesome.
netpoetic.com: unicode
“i made video called “unicode”. it shows all displayable characters in the unicode range 0 – 65536 (49571 characters). one character per frame.”
From Me to You: GIFs
Jamie creates animated GIFs by selectively animating a portion of a photograph. These are wonderful and a little creepy.
NYTimes.com: 'The Simpsons' Explains Its Provocative Banksy Opening
Interesting interview. I would disagree, however, that the sequence is funny.
Blingee.com
"Make your own Glitter Graphics."
Raphaël
"Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library."
Vimeo: Animal Collective — My Girls
This video is my favorite thing ever. This song is my favorite thing ever. I am not joking at the moment.
Leonard Cheshire Disability: Creature Discomforts
Cute video, good message.
Kings of Power 4 Billion %
Spectacularly awesome homespun sprite-anime disco gore apocalypse. With happy metal hardcore soundtrack to boot.
Fat-Pie: Health Reminder (by David Firth)
A great bit of absurdist animated satire from the man who brought you "Salad Fingers."
"airport" by Iain Anderson
A short film made entirely with public domain ISO symbols.
Blue Ball Machine
Awesome.
"Ryan"
The story of an artist. Absolutely outstanding.
Netdisaster
Destroy any website in a number of ways.
Instructoart by Matthew Vescovo
Informative and creative pieces of art: commercials and more.
I Love Foxes
I can't stop laughing at this.
Newgrounds: Prowlies at the River
A very cute cartoon.
Something Awful: The Game Genie Music Contest
A fantastic Flash animation featuring music made entirely of the sounds from the Game Genie startup screen.