Readers and viewers of the Harry Potter novels and movies are familiar with certain features in the wizard world that muggles (non-wizards) don’t have, such as Potter’s invisibility cloak and animated photos and paintings in which people and objects are not still but instead move.
Like a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format).
Well, we don’t need wizardry because our muggle ingenuity and technology are realizing some of J. K. Rowling’s fantasies.
Just as scientists have invented an invisibility cloak, now an Italian animator named Rino Stefano Tagliafierro has brought classic paintings to life. Using the 2.5D or “animated photo” effect with software such as After Effects or Final Cut, he transforms classic works of art into GIFs.
Tagliafierro calls his animated works “art paintings.”
Here’s Tagliafierro’s animated version of Caravaggio’s David slays Goliath painting, Davide con la testa di Golia:
Here’s William Adolphe Bouguereaus’ The Nut Gatherers:
And here’s my favorite: Ivan Shishkin’s Forest Edge. Watch the birds fly from behind the trees!
Source: Daily Mail
To see the list of Tagliafierro’s art paintings, go to his website
H/t FOTM’s swampygirl
~Eowyn