Gabriela Perez is an Illustrator/Designer/Animator originally from Miami, Florida🌴 now working out of the Northeast🌲

Illustration | Motion Design

Senior editor Gregg Valentine from Giphy reached out to me to create a GIF for UFO Day this June. Additionally, Giphy featured my work in their "Guest Animators & Creators" Collection on their GIPHY Studios 2024 page. I had a lot of creative liberty on this project and presented several concepts to their team. Below you can check out the sketches and the mood boards I shared with their team.

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For the initial presentation with all the concepts, I also provided some rough animation for each option. You can see the full presentation here or check out the rough animation below.

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The team went forward with option 1 and before jumping into the final version I created a refined version of the rough animation for reference (above). Below are the two final deliverables.