100 gifs in 100 days.
It started as a small project, just to try a set up in After Effects.
But it grew and probably outgrown out of my best expectations.
But it grew and probably outgrown out of my best expectations.
Great things came thanks to this project!
Here are my Gastaloops, a 100 daily project, one looping animated gif every day.
concept.
Browsing on internet I found a few people that are keeping themselves busy with personal projects on a daily basis. Every day they’re able to post something online.
Looking at them I always thought I couldn’t make it: too busy with my daily job in the studio, too busy at home with my family.
But I tried.
But I tried.
I just had to work against the clock
limits.
In order to fuel the creativity, I wanted to limit myself. Limits always work great with my mindset: playing between boundaries makes me feel more comfortable and relaxes me.
I started setting the palette. Just three colours. I picked a red, an off white and a black. But in order to choose the actual colours I took codes easy to remember, day after day.
So the white is R255 B255 G230, the red is R255 B100 G100 and the black is black, simply enough.
Every gif had to be optimised for Dribbble, so the resolution had to be 800×600.
In order to keep the size down, I chose to use just 50 frames and to have it looping.
freedom.
Having set all these technical limits, I also wanted to be free to create whatever I wanted. Ultimately, I know I had to create one gif everyday in about 1 hour, so I wanted to set up one last rule that would have allowed me not to be stuck, by any means, failing my project.
The last rule is not to have any rule about the tools used or the style created.
Every gif could be done in a 3d program, in After Effects, Photoshop, hand drawn, shot, Houdini, Real Flow, particles or fluid simulations, whatever.
A tool is just a tool and it shouldn’t matter what you use when you create something.
Also, sometimes is even more interesting creating an animation stepping out from our comfort zone. And this is what I did in a lot of the gifs.
achievements.
Creating these gifs it’s been an amazing journey. I can remember clearly where I was and what I did that day of my life just looking at every one of those.
Every day I was posting them online on few social networks: dribbble, imgur, facebook and twitter.
After few weeks, the Gastaloops started to get more and more attention.
In total, now, the Gastaloops have been viewed more than a million times just on imgur, some gifs on Giphy have gone viral, reaching more than 10 million views. And I managed to get interviews and features on some amazing magazines and websites. And, yes, more work!
In total, now, the Gastaloops have been viewed more than a million times just on imgur, some gifs on Giphy have gone viral, reaching more than 10 million views. And I managed to get interviews and features on some amazing magazines and websites. And, yes, more work!
music promo.
After 100 Gastaloops, I put them together creating a music promo for the song Out, by IISO. We have been featured on Wired and has been awarded of the precious Vimeo Staff Picks!
awards and interviews.
Winner of Creativepool Annual 2017, Animation / Individual category.
Part of a documentary about GIFs, created by Konstrastfilm for German / French channel Arte. You can watch it online!
Have been exhibited at the International GIF Festival “Y a des GIFs qui se perdent!” in Saint-Etienne (France), on October 2016.
Won third prize at The Gifers festival in Turin, November 2016.
Official Selection of Caostica 15 (Bilbao, Spain, June 2017)
Official Selection of Art at Night, Trenton, NJ, USA, May 2017.
Official Selection of 60 seconds or Less Festival.
Official Selection of Art at Night, Trenton, NJ, USA, May 2017.
Official Selection of 60 seconds or Less Festival.
Feature on Fubiz
Interview on Timeout + Block Shot page on Dribbble
Interview on GIF Magazine
Feature on CreativeBoom
Feature on We and the color
Editor’s pick on Mu.zli (17/02/2017)
Feature on Freepik
Feature on InspirationGrid
Interview on Gif Porn with 150K views.
Featured artist on Giphy
Interview and exclusive feature on Wired Italia
Published on Repubblica, one of the major newspapers in Italy!
