This is my favourite Gif artwork from my archive. The best gif artworks are mesmerising; watchable for a while, satisfying, inspiring, and craftily squeezes the most out of every frame, pixel, and colour that the format can offer!

.GIF archive

It is hard to pinpoint the origin of my interest in Gif Art as it converged from multiple points. I started making stop motion animation and playing flash videos and games around 2006. Around this time we also got a copy of photoshop on the family computer -I was obsessed and started clicking every button I could find! I posted my first gif to the internet in 2013 using pixel art software and soon discovered After Effects and Cinema4D through various online communities including the Glitch Artists' Collective..

Uploading frequently to Tumblr, I found that I was free to explore my interests, and experiment with different techniques and mediums whilst tapping into online interest groups- growing my own community of fans and fellow artists. My Gif animations bridge themes and of mathematics, spiritualism, digital cultures, and glitch- embracing the Gif format as a medium and aesthetic.

I Signed as Giphy's 27th official artist in 2015 giving me the opportunity to be one of the first artists avaliable on the gif stickers feature of instagram stories. I used this to create immersive, multilayered events branding where audience members could digitally superimpose visuals from the event into their experience. My gifs have amassed over 5 Billion views through Giphy.

I have always wanted to be able to sell Gif art in the same way that you might buy a print, postcard, or book in a gallery shop. Because of this I signed to the first NFT marketplace (now defunct) and released a few of my animations in alternate colourways. I wanted them to be accessible so priced them at $7 worth of Etherium (as low as the platform would allow). I didn't sell tons, but the wee stash of Etherium certainly helped a starving artist through some tough times.

A swarm of cursors. Using Dan Ebberts' wonderful looping noise script for After Effects.

This animation has featured on many websites and youtube videos. I learned about logarithmic scaling to animate faux 3D motion in 2D.

A concept Vaporwave album artwork. I gave myself the challenge to make an animation using no assets- only with effects.

I am fascinated with mathematical concepts. This is a 3D shadow of the 120 Cell 4D shape.

I love using environment texture maps to create iridescence. Using identical clones can save multitudes of frames (in this case 6x less)

I was inspired by the structure of playground equipment to investigate nesting Octahedra.

Extracting SVGs from popular websites to extrude and animate in 3D. Unsurprisingly, this animation makes up ~85% of my total views on Giphy.

There was a lot of things going on in 2016- Trump was running for president, and facebook added the reactions feature.

My final major project in College was about the ways social media has changed our interaction with others, the world and ourselves.

Amongst other tools, I had discovered processing- an intuitive coding language that excelled in making visuals. I was inspired by wave interference and the dramatic lighting in black and white films.

Playing with focus and dithering.

I was also very interested in video feedback - which I dubbed 'Pixel Surfing'. This was generated using that process.

This animation was made unexpectedly.

A fractal I designed in Illustrator then animated in After Effects. This is before I discovered logarithmic scaling, but I quite like the feeling that we are swimming into it.