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Fireworks over the city
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.
Fireworks & New Year animations
Every animation as MP4 and GIF, looping, free for personal and commercial use.
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Happy New Year
Gold New Year lettering with fireworks bursting behind it. The text pops in once and holds.
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Countdown to 2027
A 3-2-1 countdown that lands on 2027 with fireworks and confetti, then fades for a clean restart.
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Golden fireworks
Golden fireworks over a starry night sky, elegant and without text.
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Grand finale 2027
A dense grand finale of shells with sparkles and a quiet 2027 at the bottom.
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Champagne cheers
Two glasses clink while bubbles rise and sparkles drift: a toast for the turn of the year.
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Confetti party
Colourful confetti rains over a violet-to-pink gradient with a big New Year wish.
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Fireworks loop (black)
Pure fireworks on black, made as an overlay for streams and videos. Use the Screen blend mode.
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December 30, 6 pm: a bar owner needs a countdown by tomorrow
Picture Marco. He runs a small cocktail bar with a flat screen behind the counter, which usually shows the drinks menu. On December 30 a regular asks whether the screen will “do anything” at midnight. Marco has nothing ready, and the designer he would normally ask is already on holiday.
He starts a search for a fireworks gif, finds a few that loop badly or carry a watermark, and lands on a gallery like this. Twenty minutes later, using nothing but his browser, he has three files on a USB stick: the 3-2-1-2027 countdown, a golden fireworks loop and a Happy New Year scene. The TV plays the MP4 versions, the greeting goes into the bar’s WhatsApp status, and the fireworks run over the party photos he posts the next morning.
That evening is the whole use case in small. Nobody needs a thirty-second film for the celebration. You need a few short loops that play on any screen your guests look at, without an account, a license form or a conversion step.
Why a short loop beats a long video
On a screen in a bar, in a story or in a stream, a fireworks animation is background. A loop of four to six seconds does the job because it repeats without a visible cut. All eight animations here work that way: the last frame leads straight back into the first, so a party playlist can be a single file on repeat.
Each animation comes in two formats, and the choice is clear once you know where the file will play:
| Format | Size and specs | Where it fits |
|---|---|---|
| MP4 (H.264) | 600×600 or 800×450 pixels, 4 to 6 seconds, about 0.9 to 1.7 MB | Website, Instagram, TikTok, PowerPoint, OBS, TV via USB stick |
| GIF | 400 pixels on the long edge, 8 frames per second, 96 colors, about 0.2 to 1.8 MB | WhatsApp, Slack, email signatures, older systems |
The MP4 is smaller and sharper at the same time. A video codec stores only what changes between frames, while a GIF keeps every frame as a full picture with at most 256 colors. The GIF still has its place because it plays almost everywhere, even where video autoplay is blocked. Download both and keep them side by side on your computer.
Which fireworks animation does which job?
Sort the eight loops by purpose instead of by look and you skip a lot of trial and error.
- Countdown: the 3-2-1-2027 clip is the only animation with a built-in moment. Show it just before midnight, use it as a stream opener, or post it in a story at 11:55 pm.
- Overlay: the pure fireworks on black have no text and no horizon. Place them on top of a photo or video, set the blend mode to “Screen” or “Add”, and the black disappears while the colorful sparks stay.
- Greeting: “Happy New Year” (also in German as “Frohes neues Jahr”), champagne glasses with “Prost Neujahr!”, confetti with “Guten Rutsch” and a finale with a large “2027”. They carry your message to friends, family and clients.
- Atmosphere: golden fireworks and fireworks over a city skyline show no text at all. They are the safest choice behind a menu, a price list or a slideshow.
Marco needed a file from each of the first three groups. A photographer posting a review of the past months needs only the overlay, and a company sending wishes to clients may only want the text-free golden loop with its logo and design on top.
How to use the files on each channel
Social media and messengers
Instagram and TikTok take the MP4. If you upload a GIF, both platforms convert it to video anyway and you lose quality for nothing. For a celebration greeting in WhatsApp or Slack, send the GIF: both apps show animated GIFs inline and loop them.
Website and newsletter
On a web page, a GIF of up to 2 MB is often the heaviest file of all. Embed the MP4 with a video tag set to autoplay, muted, loop and playsinline instead. MDN’s reference for the HTML video element notes that modern browsers block autoplay for videos with an unmuted audio track, which is why the muted attribute matters. Newsletters are the exception: most email clients cannot play video, so use the animated file as a picture there.
Stream and video editing
In OBS Studio, add the MP4 as a media source, tick the loop option in its settings and place it above your camera or game capture. With the blend mode set to “Screen”, the sparks appear over the picture and the black background vanishes. DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro offer the same through the clip’s composite or blend mode.
PowerPoint and Google Slides
In PowerPoint, click Insert, then Video, then This Device, and pick the MP4 on your device. Under playback, set it to start automatically and loop until stopped. An animated file can go in as an ordinary image and moves in slideshow mode. Google Slides takes video stored in Google Drive, so put the MP4 there first, open the Drive tab and insert it.
Free for any project, with one limit
The animations are our own content, rendered with our own canvas animation engine; a few scenes use illustrated backgrounds we generated for them. You can download them free and use them privately or commercially on websites, social media, presentations, videos, streams and newsletters. No attribution is required. The single thing not allowed is reselling the files as such, for example in a stock pack.
Want to create a version with your own date, wording or brand colors? The banner maker exports GIF, MP4 and HTML5, so you can customize the text of a New Year scene and save it in the format you need. It runs in the browser, and nothing leaves your computer.
A note on history: this domain hosted free Flash animations from 2004 to 2016, fireworks among them. The gallery picks that idea up in today’s formats. We are not the original company, and no Flash is needed.
New Year’s Eve checklist
Go through this list on December 30, or earlier if you plan better than Marco.
- Decide which screens need something: venue TV, site header, stream overlay, story, newsletter, slides.
- Download a countdown, an overlay and a greeting, each as MP4 and GIF.
- Check the date. The countdown and the finale show 2027; to create a different one, build your own in the banner maker.
- Match format to channel: MP4 for Instagram, TikTok, web pages, OBS and PowerPoint; GIF for WhatsApp, Slack and email.
- Test the loop on the actual screen. Some TVs pause briefly between repeats when playing off a USB stick; a playlist with the same clip several times in a row can run smoother.
- Schedule the posts: countdown at 11:55 pm, greeting right after midnight, fireworks over your recap of the celebration the next day.
- Keep the files. The overlays and golden fireworks show no date, so each file works again next December. To clear the screen for winter afterwards, the snow animations loop the same way.
Licence
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.