Sometimes, the best response to a group chat or email is a strong GIF—a small animation that can express your feelings much better than you can type them. While you can find plenty of GIFs for every ...

GIFs are pretty much an inescapable form of internet communication now, and it’s never been easier to make your own. Giphy’s online GIF maker lets you pull short YouTube clips and add captions, and ...

A moving picture in GIF format, which comprises a series of frames. When displayed, they provide an animated sequence that cycles over and over without stopping. Although popular on the Web, animated ...

Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008” and ...

Allison happily embraces being a geek. In between snuggles with her dog and writing, you can find her watching Disney movies, enjoying a good gritty docuseries, singing along to musical show tunes, or ...

Tumblr is a popular blog site that allows users to post text, videos, audio files and pictures. Like all computer files, photo files come in a few different types. One type of photo file is the GIF, ...

With Shrek the Third, the latest film in DreamWorks Animation's CG ogre comedy franchise, hitting theaters everywhere this weekend, we thought we'd take a look at the history of computer-animated ...

Of the many social networks present on the internet, Twitter is one of the most lively, telling, and communicative platforms of all. A large part of this has to do with the interactive behavior that ...