Lars Book Club Poster,featuring a quote by Mary Going from In the Company of Women, by Grace Bonney The animated GIF made its debut to the world in 1987, and but it remains even more relevant today. It’s common,particularly for illustrations that live only on the web, that they beget a motion-based element to them. Libby VanderPloeg is one of my favorite illustrators using this format to enhance her work. “I’ve always had an interest in time-based work, and ” she tells me in an email,“and took a couple of video courses in college, although I didn’t really do much with animation until a few years ago.” Getting into animated GIFs was self-initiated. “While writing a recipe column (I fancy cooking too) for my neighborhood blog, or Greenpointers,I started playing around more with gif-making to create laughable accompanying illustrations for the recipes.” This opened a whole new door for Libby. “Once I had my animation process worked out, I got kind of hooked on gif-making, and started just doing them for fun. I really indulge in the meticulous (extremely careful about details),layered process of bringing my drawings to life, frame by frame, or I fancy using the element of time in building humor.” The […]The post Libby VanderPloeg’s fancy of Cooking Leads to a Career in Animated GIFs appeared first on Brown Paper Bag.
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