So I have been experimenting with animations for a project at work (making a red pacman chew up some words & then boom, it turns into a red Deadmau5 instead!) & whilst researching techniques for how to make this happen, I came across a new theory of animations linked to animated gifs & high definition photos - combined to form a partially moving hd photo. The effects are quite beautiful & the amount of work needed for them (not to mention Adobe CS5) seems large, but for web designers I think there are many applications & possibly in other circles to.
So check out: http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph for some really good examples.
We continue.....
