Technically, youTube eclipsed Quicktime. (and it is a fucking improvement due to standard compression rates so that the damn things now play reliably)
You have to compare gifs to flash animation capabilities. gif making software is dirt cheap compared to Flash. Flash has a huge learning curve and until recently flash players would not run automatically in a browser. I make bags of money off the more difficult software, however I'm on the side of cheap shareware for getting art projects done.
My one other point of disagreement bill, is your assertion that that gif animations are romantic relics, especially because the technology is so old. I consider it a highly successful technology, and I'm not interested in any nostalgic aspect. (In fact I'm really fucking tired of curators & writers taking that position whenever an exhibition of gif based work opens.)
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You have to compare gifs to flash animation capabilities. gif making software is dirt cheap compared to Flash. Flash has a huge learning curve and until recently flash players would not run automatically in a browser. I make bags of money off the more difficult software, however I'm on the side of cheap shareware for getting art projects done.
My one other point of disagreement bill, is your assertion that that gif animations are romantic relics, especially because the technology is so old. I consider it a highly successful technology, and I'm not interested in any nostalgic aspect. (In fact I'm really fucking tired of curators & writers taking that position whenever an exhibition of gif based work opens.)
- L.M. 10-01-2010 3:07 pm