Free Chinese animations. Original animated gifs

Lanterns with a flickering flame

butterfly with shadowThe Chinese animated lanterns can be used on a dark background or a light background.
Two animated versions available with a transparent background. On this web page I have used a dark blue and a light blue background. Normally my animations are made for a light background but I think a lantern needs to be displayed as if it was night time. The full Chinese Zodiac and Yin Yang gif animations are available on another page, you can see these by clicking on the links at the bottom of the page.

Chinese lantern for dark background

butterfly frame

Chinese alphabet

Chinese lantern for a light background

Another experiment

The lanterns were a very interesting experiment because I wanted to give a flickering light effect at the same time the lantern spun. To top it all I have made a version for a light and a dark background. When tested on a dark coloured web page we thought that the lantern looked spectacular. The spinning dragon Chinese animation, a lot of work again was originally created for the Wallop social networking web site originally started by Microsoft (No longer with us) who used to have a lot of Chinese members. Maybe Google+ will have a little more success.