Welcome to the avant-garde of the GIF revival. It's called the Reanimator Lab, most recently on display at the Museum of the Moving Image.
To work, it needs a crowd of people and an animation, like this rotating buckyball. From there, the three-person Reanimator team breaks the clip into a string of frames, then sets up the frames on screens so any aspiring artists in the crowd can trace over them. "It works best with sharp lines and enough motion in the frame for it to make sense," according to Jason Eppink, the programmer of the group. Once all the frames are traced over, they're photographed and a PHP script collects them into a single GIF, ready to be projected above the party or dropped onto Tumblr. The result looks like this (the...
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