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Seeing that motion-blurred animated GIF banner at the bottom gave me an intense nostalgia rush, I made a good living making those banners for a year or 2 back i
by sen 5y ago
Seeing that motion-blurred animated GIF banner at the bottom gave me an intense nostalgia rush, I made a good living making those banners for a year or 2 back in the late 90s. $50-150 per banner ($25/frame), doing a few each evening, with a month or 2 backlog in the queue.
It was a fun and easily-profitable era if you knew even the basics of web/graphics.
- 101008 5y agoThat motion-blurred animate GIF also remind me of some videogames from that era. Anyone with more knowledge can explain why that style was used in the late 90s? Was it about low resolution and small palettes?
- dwighttk 5y agoBandwidth and storage were more constrained.
- harrylepotter 5y agoMy take- Photoshop was relatively novel at the time, and motion blur was one of the earliest filters. Do this at varying levels for a few frames and you’ve got yourself an eye-catching animated gif with minimal effort.
- sen 5y agoEach frame of the GIF in the banners took a noticeable amount of time to load back then, so the motion blur added to the movement effect, as well as signalling to the viewer that it was actually movement and not a static slideshow (which was also a common style of banner animation). I distinctly remember playing with different amounts of motion blur to see which one looked most appropriate for that animation, and simulating acceleration/etc by having the motion blur increase/decrease.