30 Amazing Stanley Kubrick Cinemagraphs
Stanley Kubrick was devoted to images, telling his stories as visually as possible. His images have an arresting power that few if any other directors can match. Dublin-based film critic Paul Lynch may have summed it up best speaking on A Clockwork Orange:
With colour, Kubrick found an alacrity and an arrest in his images that began to transcend the subject material of his stories…Those widescreen shots seem to push the natural boundaries of the screen, to absorb every photon of light. Kubrick wanted to do to his audiences what he did to Alex in A Clockwork Orange: to peel back our eyelids until we are forced to see every beam from the projector. He did not want us to blink.
There is a cold pedantry to his work, an unfeeling, ivory-tower vantage that, when married to the analytical care he took with his craft, can leave you feeling a little cold towards his films.
What is a Cinemagraph?
Cinemagraphs are still photographs in which a minor and repeated movement action occurs. The term “cinemagraph” was coined by U.S. photographers Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck, who used the technique to animate their fashion and news photographs beginning in early 2011.
They are produced by taking a series of photographs or a video recording, and, using image editing software, compositing the photographs or the video frames into an animated GIF file in such a manner that motion in part of the subject between exposures (for example, a person’s dangling leg) is perceived as a repeating or continued motion. (See Tutorial Links at the end of this Article.)
Watch carefully some a very subtle.
IMAGES VIA: If we don’t, remember me.
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
*A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Cinemagraph Tutorials:
- Cinemagraph Tutorial
- Cinemagraphs – Still Photographs Turned into Animated GIFs
- How To Make Your Own Cinemagraphs: A New Take on GIFs
- Cinemagraph/Subtle GIF Tutorial
- How to Make Cinemagraph GIFs with Photoshop – Video Tutorial
why are you talking about Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck from 2011 when you posting almost every cinemagraph from http://iwdrm.tumblr.com who made most of them in 2010?
This website is just leaking iwdrm.tumblr.com works with a small “IMAGES VIA” and no other link to it. Every image should have a link to the original source.
Why, if they all come from the same place, should one go through all of the trouble to put the same source link with every image? Especially when that link comes directly after the blurb and before all of the images.
The term “cinemagraph” is silly, and the needlessly convoluted description of how they’re put together doesn’t make it any less silly.
It was a good enough title to get you to click on it.
All cinemagraphs are animated gifs, but not all animated gifs are cinemagraphs. Just like all Bourbon is Whiskey, but not all Whiskey is Bourbon.
Well, if you buy into the word ‘photograph,’ then cinemagraph isn’t much of a stretch; take -graph to mean image as in photograph (light image) and throw on cinema-, meaning motion, and you get a word meaning motion within an image — the ‘within’ coming from the fact that most all that I have seen are not entirely animated, only certain areas. Indeed, the effect desired seems to be for the viewer to momentarily see these as still images.
Agreed with Robin. How this is any different from making simple gifs with GIFfun is beyond me. That said, they’re cool gifs.
It seems pretty obvious to me; these are done to highlight the movement by keeping everything else static. I would hope the effect that that gives is pretty obvious
The difference is that in these there are certain parts that are deliberately static. Only one (or very few) elements of the image are actually animated. They’re still GIFs, but can capture magical moments in a movie
What still amazes me is the quality of the picture, considering this is all GIF as usual. I mean, most animated GIFs have that 256-color limit very clear, but these look like JPEGs.
Gifs can contain millions of colors and high resolution. You’re just not used to seeing it because most animated gifs that you’ve ever seen were automatically created in a simple frame conversion process. These are manually assembled frame by frame, the first high resolution frame being the entire picture, then all the subsequent frames are only updates to the areas affected by the action in the picture. The silliness of the term “cinemagraph” is debatable, since this process has been around since the beginning of animated gifs in the early ’90s, but the fact is that the vast majority of people never bothered the hands-on approach used by these guys here. An improvement, yes… but still nothing new. Good job on these though!
Well, according to the wikipedia GIFs entry: «[…] The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel thus allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors. […] There are at least two rarely-used methods that can generate a GIF that, if decoded according to the GIF89a standard, will produce an animation that ends with a 24-bit RGB truecolor image. […]»
Mesmerizing… But what, no Barry Lyndon?
If you can find some I’ll add them.
Its amazing
Grea post! This is really amazing. I have to look more into this kind of things.
I looooove cinemagraphs. They’re beautiful to look at, and very different from gifs.
You asked why the transparency option saves so much space, well that’s because of the way GIF works.
A GIF animations works not in discrete frames like a movie, but in layers like a photoshop file.
With transparency disabled the background has to be copied into each and every animated layer, which is more like a movie with discrete frames but it takes up a lot of space because most of the background frame is saved multiple times.
With transparency enabled you’ve got a single background layer which fills the complete frame (the static building) and each additional layer only adds the small animated window cleaners while the space around the cleaners is left transparent, which is extremely easy to compress.
15 Examples of gorgeous cinemagraphs and not one of them is based on Kubrick:
http://www.rawthemes.com/?cat=47
Love the ‘A Clockwork Orange’ images. I’ve only just recently watched this film. Your post is correct. In the images selected here, each tells a tale. If anyone remembers anyone of these films after viewing will be instantly taken to that specific moment in the film. Brilliant and animated captures. Well done!
This is kinda stupid. I mean, they are just animated gifs. I don’t understand what makes these so unique or interesting. I also don’t like how there was a whole term coined for this. And now this guy is gonna get major credit for creating this “concept.”
How is this stupid? It’s just like anything else in this world where someone has improved upon something simple. Sort of like people putting presets on images and calling themselves professional photographers.
I think these are better examples: http://cinemagraphs.com/
When they are done right they are a concept that many people will view as new and cool.
Wassamatta? Jealous?
It’s not stupid. It requires skill and craftsmanship. If anything, your comment is stupid. Why do you dislike new terms? What a peculiar observation to make.
You don’t have to be the first person to paint a picture to be a great artist. They are quite unique and beautiful to watch, they have an almost serene quality.
Animated gifs are traditionally crass and uncouth. This is not something that people do every day.
Suggestions for Barry Lyndon: Barry overlooking the water from the bridge after his explosive fight with Bullingdon. The card party seduction scene: when Lady Lyndon makes that quirky, lip twisting smirk-siren glance. There are many others. Nora Brady looking down at Barry at the onset of the film…the film lends itself well to many. If only I could do these!
very cool, I gave it a try…
I can’t figure out how they got the .gifs to be such good quality.. any suggestions?
thanks for the inspiration!
About the tutorial:
with a proper tripod you just shoot a video that seems a cinemagraph !
There are no other freezed objects in the scene that can show the difference between a video and a still image with cinemagraph behavior.
After this automatic opinion, the tutorial is a good quality and good speech.
http://www.cinemagraph.pro
AWESOME!
I think this in a way was a terrible gif to start with for your animation. If I was to do a shoot and a tutorial, I’d want better results for myself before going through with all of this.
Good try but in my opinion, you wasted lots of time with it.
Please do shoot a tutorial so we can post it.
He tweeted one. http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/create-awesome-cinemagraph-photoshop
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I like a lot of these but it strikes me that changing the original aspect ratio removes the ‘cinemagraph’ from Kubrick’s original vision of the frame.
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