Oobject - Daily User Ranked Lists. How To Make Your Own Cinemagraphs: A New Take on GIFs. We hate to break it to you, but it doesn't look as if GIFs are disappearing anytime soon. Those ancient animated images — once limited to gaudy "under construction" signs and chain-mail fodder — are receiving a new lease on life as of late, thanks to a little something called cinemagraphs. This is actually just a fancy name for an animated GIF, but specially designed with a purposeful artistic goal. One photographer, Fernando J Baez, describes the technique as "more than a photo, but not quite a video.
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Paper isn’t the first medium most people think of when they imagine sculpture, but it has qualities that help papercraft artists create some of the most incredibly intricate 3D art ever seen. Master paper sculptors like Richard Sweeney, Brian Dettmer and Ingrid Siliakus cut, fold, glue and otherwise transform sheets of paper in various colors, sizes and textures into complex creations that mimic architecture, nature, the human form and subjects that are purely the products of their own fertile imaginations. Bert Simons – Incredibly Lifelike Portrait Sculptures (images via: BertSimons.com) Eerie, faceted 3-D paper heads float on a wall like grotesque hunting trophies. Haruki Nakamura – Moving Parts Paper Sculptures (images via: Paper Engineering Kamikara) Haruki Nakamura’s papercraft does more than just sit there and look pretty.
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