40 looping clips for Halloween, Christmas, snow, New Year, Valentine’s Day and barcode scenes. Every one as MP4 and GIF, free for personal and commercial use.
A crooked house on a misty hill under the full moon, with flickering windows and bats flitting past. The greeting sits in the open sky.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Five carved pumpkins glow and flicker in a straw-covered patch at dusk while autumn leaves drift down. No text.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
A quiet village under slowly falling snow, warm light in the windows and stars over the hills. The greeting pops in once and then holds.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
A decorated tree by the fireplace with twinkling lights and soft bokeh. Warm and calm, made for greetings and newsletters.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Dense snowfall around a lone mountain cabin at dusk, with large, soft flakes close to the camera.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Gentle snow over rolling hills and a twinkling night sky. Calm enough for a website header.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Fireworks burst over a city skyline at night and reflect in the river below.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Gold New Year lettering with fireworks bursting behind it. The text pops in once and holds.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Soft hearts in three depths rise and sway over a pink-to-violet gradient while the greeting pops in. A card in one loop.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Red roses and two flickering candles on a linen table, with petals drifting down through warm bokeh.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
A red laser sweeps across a clean barcode and flashes at each turn. Decorative, not a real product code.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Barcode bars grow one after another from the bottom, hold, and fade before the loop restarts.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no attribution required.
Free animations always cost something. Sometimes the price is a license condition, sometimes an attribution line, sometimes an afternoon of your own time. Once you know what you can afford, picking a source takes minutes.
Four routes are common: GIF platforms, stock libraries, building your own in an online tool, and a ready collection such as this gallery. Each one is the best choice for some jobs, which is why combining more than one often makes sense. The comparison below sets them side by side on rights, file types, quality and effort.
| Route | Rights you get | File types | Quality | Effort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIF platforms | Depends on who uploaded each clip. Many clips come out of films, shows or sports, so commercial purposes are often outside the terms. | GIF, embed code, sometimes video | Varies by upload | Low: search, embed or share |
| Stock libraries (Lottie collections, free videos) | Set per item. Some allow any project, some ask for attribution, some sit behind a paid plan. | Lottie JSON, dotLottie, MP4, GIF | Often by professional motion designers | Medium: read terms, often an account |
| Build it yourself online | Yours, as long as the images and fonts belong to you | GIF, MP4, WebM, HTML5 | As good as the material | High: roughly 10 to 60 minutes per loop |
| This gallery (Amara Software) | Personal and business use, no credit line | MP4 and GIF plus a preview image | Seamless 4 to 6 second loops | Low: click, download, no account |
These sites exist for sharing. You search, copy an embed code or send a reaction in a chat. For personal messages no other option is faster.
A business website or an ad is a different case. A clip cut out of a film belongs to the studio, and a platform cannot pass on rights its uploader never had. Before a clip goes on a product page, check where it came from. Read the site’s own terms on downloads too, since they are often written with embedding in mind.
Stock libraries hold work by professional animators. LottieFiles, for example, has a large library of Lottie animations as Lottie JSON or dotLottie, and many items export to video or GIF. Paid plans there give access to extra features, and many libraries also offer templates you adapt before export. Sites for free stock videos add animated backgrounds and short videos you can loop.
The catch is the mix of terms in more than one place. On one site, every item in the free collection is cleared for commercial use. On the next, those items ask for a link back, or a clean version without a watermark is only available on a plan. Royalty free means you pay nothing per use once you meet the conditions, so the conditions still matter.
A short routine helps:
Lottie is the strongest choice for interface work, such as a loading spinner in an app or an icon on a landing screen, because a JSON animation scales without blur. Slides, emails or social media usually call for a GIF or a clip anyway.
If a loop has to match brand colours and your own text, build it. Our tools run in the browser, so you install nothing and the images stay on your machine. You can preview every change before export. The GIF maker turns a set of pictures into an animated GIF. The banner maker exports GIF, MP4 and an HTML5 package for ad slots, and suits a loop built around a headline.
Size, speed and wording are up to you, and the result belongs to you. The cost is time. One holiday greeting is a pleasant half hour. A dozen design projects a month is real work, and ready loops earn their place there.
The gallery holds 40 loops in six categories. We rendered all of them with our own canvas animation engine, and the illustrated backgrounds some scenes use were generated for us, so no third party holds rights to them.
| Category | Loops | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Halloween | 6 | Haunted house under the full moon, glowing pumpkins, bats over the moon, friendly ghosts, spider on its web, bats on black for overlays |
| Christmas | 10 | Snowy village at night, fairy lights on a tree, snow globe, Santa in front of the moon, golden greeting in English and German |
| Snow | 6 | Light snow in a forest, snowstorm, snowfall on dark for overlays, all without text |
| Fireworks and New Year | 8 | Golden fireworks, skyline, 3-2-1-2027 countdown, champagne glasses, fireworks on black |
| Valentine’s Day | 6 | Rising hearts, roses by candlelight, beating heart, love letter, park bench at dusk, hearts on black for overlays |
| Barcode | 4 | Scanning laser, growing bars, pulsing QR code, SALE tag, all 800×450 |
Each loop comes as MP4 and GIF. The H.264 clip is 600×600 or 800×450 pixels, 4 to 6 seconds long and about 0.15 to 2 MB. The GIF is 400 px on the long edge, 8 frames per second, 96 colours and about 0.2 to 4.3 MB. Downloads need no account or newsletter sign-up, and the files carry no watermark.
Use the loops on websites, in social posts, slides, streams and newsletters, for yourself or for clients. Reselling the files as such is the one thing ruled out. The full wording sits in the Licence section further down.
Some history: between 2004 and 2016 this domain carried a collection of Flash animations on Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, fireworks and barcode themes. The new gallery continues that idea. We are not the original company.
Download both if in doubt. Then go by the job:
<video autoplay muted loop playsinline> tag. It looks sharper and loads faster than a GIF of the same scene.Video wins on the web because the GIF format is old. It dates back to 1987, gained animation with GIF89a in 1989, allows 256 colours per frame and compresses changes between frames poorly. H.264 stores those changes efficiently and keeps full colour, so a snowfall scene ends up smaller and cleaner.
Decide where the loop will run, then pick the route. For a quick seasonal loop on clear terms, open a category above and download what you need. For brand colours or your own text, start in one of our tools. For interface work, a Lottie animation out of a library is usually the better fit.
We made every animation in this gallery ourselves. You may use them for free, privately and commercially: on websites, social media, presentations, videos, streams and newsletters. No attribution is required. The only thing not allowed is reselling the files themselves or offering them as your own collection.