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Dave Dempsey

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25. 3. 2014 - 12:01

Today's Webtip: Poster GIFs

Putting the move into movie posters.

In 2012 Looper was promoted with an animated GIF version of the movie poster. Something that caught online headlines and the attention of graphic geeks.

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It's something that hasn't taken off online, and the movie bosses don't seem too keen on making it so, but quite a few people have decided to take issues into their own hand and make what wasn't made. Giphy has quite a selection of movie themed GIFs, some faithful representations of the classic poster, some completely new concepts. Neon posters anyone?

These modernized versions of the Star Wars flicks are pretty fine.

Star Wars Animated Posters from Caleb Knueven on Vimeo.

As is this Wolverine poster:

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