Systems and methods for providing pixelation and depixelation animations for media content

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:

• determining variable durations, including at least a first duration and a second duration different from the first duration, for presenting a set of pixelated images, including at least a first pixelated image and a second pixelated image, based on an accelerated interpolation process causing the first pixelated image to be presented for the first duration and the second pixelated image to be presented for the second duration;
• and
• presenting the set of pixelated images based on the variable durations as an animation, wherein the first duration is greater than the second duration and the animation corresponds with a pixelation animation or the first duration is less than the second duration and the animation corresponds with a depixelation animation.