Animated GIF – Lewis Moten

May 28, 2026

Tiny Pockets Press

A tiny bookmaking experiment became a deeper dive into vibe coding, browser storage, signatures, covers, QR codes, image exports, and the strange joy of turning 100-word stories into printable miniature books. Read More

March 6, 2001

New York

Using one of the early public webcams, I captured still frames as the sun set over New York and stitched them into an animation. At a time when webcams were rare, this experiment turned live internet imagery into motion. Read More

March 6, 2001

Rotating Moon

Created for a moon-phase calendar, this rotating moon animation repurposed NASA imagery into a seamless visual loop. Though Earth always sees the same lunar face, the orbiting perspective and careful GIF optimization made it a technical and creative experiment. Read More

March 6, 2001

Lewie’s WWW Gallery

Created in 1997 using 3D Studio Release 4, this early animated GIF served as the basis for one of my first. With gold navigation buttons and a blue noise background, the spinning Earth—later corrected—remains the only surviving artifact. Read More

October 12, 1999

w w w . l e w i s . m o t e n . c o m

The first iteration of lewis.moten.com had a sphere that linked to my email, as well as a binary ASCII message with the website url. Read More