P2 Digital techniques

Gifs

A Gif Is a digital form of artwork. the technology for the animated GIF has become more and more advanced through the years. After 2010, a new generation of artists focused on experimenting with its potential for presenting creativity on the World Wide Web. Mass access to the interest allowed their GIFs to travel rapidly and virally online, through social media such as Tumblr and Giphy, unrecognizable as a new form of art, people on these social media sites can share these gifs worldwide through the web, there are thousands of different types of gifs.

Digital Painting

Digital painting is the method of (painting) digitally and/or a technique for making digital art on the computer. As a method of creating an art object, it adapts traditional painting mediums such as; acrylic, oils, inks and watercolor and applies to materials such as canvas, cloth and paper. As a digital technique, it refers to a computer graphics software program that uses a virtual canvas and virtual painting box of brushes, colors and other supplies. The computer software contains different instruments that do not exist outside the computer which give digital artwork a different look and feel from artwork that is made the traditional way.

Motion Graphics

Motion graphics are digital footage and/or animation technology to create an illusion of motion or rotation, and are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects. Motion graphics extend beyond the most commonly used methods of frame-by-frame footage and animation. Computers are capable of calculating and randomizing changes in imagery to create the illusion of motion and transformation.