Gif Animation

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Hey guyes

Im having some problems creating a gif animation, i have rendered 59 jpeg files in blender. And want to merge them into one gif animation. I’ve tried to follow this guide http://www.yorku.ca/facs2930/w07/imagereadygifanim.html in imageready. Only problem is the last point where it say’s save optimised as gif. But i cant save it in :confused:

So, do you guyes how i save it? or else how i get a decent free gif animator?

  • Sandalphon
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I don’t see why you would have trouble with imageready the instructions in the tutorial seem very clear.

You could try the GIMP Animation Package (GAP) it is powerful (gif) animator.

If you use GNU/Linux you can use the convert (imagemagick) command.

$ convert -delay 20 *.jpg output.gif
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ten years ago there was a free Microsoft GIF Animator applet. Nowadays, GIMP.

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Not sure what version of ImageReady you’ve got.

I just did a test in ImageReady CS (v. 8)

Here’s what I did:

File > Import > Folder as Frames
File > Save Optimized

done.

Obviously you could add more steps if you wanted to tweak stuff (like delay between frames, etc.)

What version of ImageReady do you have? What exactly is happening? From your first post, it sounds like the ‘Save Optimized’ command wasn’t even in the file menu. Can you post a screenshot?

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You can use Gimp without GAP. Tested with Gimp 2.3.16, so some of the options may be in different places.

  1. On the main toolbar, Go to File --> New
  2. Create a new image the size of your frames
  3. On the image window toolbar, go to File --> Open Image as Layers
  4. Select the layers you want to use and open them
  5. Delete the first layer (Background)
  6. On the image window toolbar, go to Layer --> Stack --> Reverse Layer Order
  7. Go to File --> Save As --> <your_file_name>.gif
  8. Choose the Save as Animation option
  9. Export
  10. Choose your settings

I hope this makes sense.

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If you can find the old Microsoft one anywhere - Use it. It’s the simplest, fastest and cleanest interface I’ve ever used for Gifs and the colour optimisation is really effective.

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First thx for all the replies.

Im using Adobe Imageready CS2 ( made in 2005 ), and yes, the option seems to be missing… So i’ve included a screenshot, along with the error message that comes when i click ok. Ammunist are you referring to Microsoft Gif animator, as found here http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=288 ? because i tried that, and it was complete rubbish. The screenshot includes its attempts to create it.

I’ll try the gimp and GAP when i get home.

  • Sandalphon

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You need to open the views that show the optimizations, and choose a version of the file, not the original file. Usually I open a 4 Up view, and select the best color for the file size. The reason it’s not working is beacuse you’re telling it to save the original file you have open, with out selecting an ‘optimization’, so it’s bringing up the picture format your images are in. Check the Window or View header to open a 2 up or 4 up, and this will get you started. I have the same program, so I know it works very well - people at my job like to see the animations I make with blender that I convert from quicktime to gif with imageready.
:slight_smile: Hope that helps!!

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You were right. Thanks a lot, it helped :smiley:

… now to make some cool animations… :cool: