The term became widely used, and you’ll find it everywhere, associated with apps for Smartphones, or even a specific software for macOS and iOS, Cinemagraph Pro, from Flixel. Cinemagraph, which is closely related to Cinema – the art of moving images – seemed perfect. While animated GIFS are normally associated with fast, frenetic, sometimes irritating non-stop animation, Cinemagraphs go the opposite way, creating a cool effect that puzzles people.īecause Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg’s technique and body of work was, felt the authors, more than “animated photographs”, they looked for a term to reflect that experience. The term “cinemagraph”, which was first used, in 2011, by photographer Jamie Beck and digital artist Kevin Burg, represents one still image from which a section shows movement, sometimes so subtle that’s almost imperceptible. Cinemagraphs are a hybrid, a photograph with a section that is animated, a puzzling effect that attracts the attention of people, divided between two options: is it a photograph or a video? It’s none and it may well be both, as you’re about to discover, if you keep reading.Īlthough being an animated GIF at heart, the modern Cinemagraph is much more than a sequence of clipart with motion, so popular on websites during the early days of the Internet. Only Cliplets…Ĭinemagraphs are, let’s admit it, the old animated GIF from the early days of the Internet, adapted to modern times and created, usually, with photographs.
Windows users have to look elsewhere, as there is no commercial solution available to animate photographs. If you’re a Mac user, Cinemagraphs may be something you’re familiar with, as there is a software to create them.
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