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Gifflips Turns Your Favorite GIFs Into Flipbooks

Don’t worry if you need to leave your computer, now you can take your GIFs anywhere.

What is it about web-based art projects invading the physical space lately? Recently, we posted about generative artists Marius Watz & Jer Thorp working within a more traditional medium where they took their computer based art and created screen prints based on those designs. Now, French media artist Jérôme Saint-Clair aka 01010101 has taken a similar path in creating flip books out of popular GIFs.

In a humorous video explaining the work, Saint-Clair offers a solution to the problem GIF lovers must face when they inevitably leave their computers and thus abandon their beloved GIFs. Using Processing he has engineered a program he calls Gifflip that allows users to create what he calls “Takeaway GIFs.” It’s as simple as dragging and dropping the animated files into the program, printing them out, and cutting out the series of images it creates. Not only is it a clever method of translating an internet-exclusive animation into a physical manifestation, it also highlights similarities between these two seemingly different mediums (are flip books a kind of precursor to the GIF?).

No longer will there be any fear or concern that someone will be left without dancing cats or animated movie stills.