Make gif animations in Blender

Create and upload gif animations of your own for mobile or internet platforms instead of picking from hundreds of near-miss messages when you have something to say. While the tool I use makes ANY animation a gif, ...
EDIT a week later... I've been losing the .gif output with large file sizes. 1250 frames disappears. No real idea what the frame limit might be. ???
I borrow Eevee's power to create and animate an example of short, written message gifs since Valentine's Day is so near. It's a loving act and Bligify is the Blender addon that makes it possible. It's free, is way more capable than what I've done here, and could make a new gif artist out of you!

[@trygvij1604]

Okay. I've got to say this. You have a wonderful voice!

[@HelloHiHola]

I'm glad you spoke up! Thank you 😃

[@yvesmolina]

Thank you very much, I just needed to do this for a project but in addition to doing it with Blender ... it's perfect!

[@HelloHiHola]

Are you gonna share? :D I'd love to see the project!

[@yvesmolina]

@@HelloHiHola Hello, I made animated GIFs of very specific rugby sequences (scrum, ruck...) for a friend who was taking his rugby coach diploma so that he could integrate them in his power point presentation. He got his diploma!🏉

[@HelloHiHola]

@@yvesmolina Incredibly thoughtful and super good application of it. Thanks for getting back to me! Best to you 🖖

[@cloudPvP]

holy fck, you sound so happy that i liked only for ur voice and your delighted attitude

[@DARamosYT]

6:05 For those who have an animation and have already installed the addon. Thanks for the tutorial! Doesn't seem to work with the latest version for me.

[@HelloHiHola]

Thanks for helping to keep it focused too! I think the addon maker let it age out.

[@bhuvaneshwaranm5798]

With Blender 3.6 the addon seems to be working fine, I use this addon every day to convert PNG image sequences into GIF

[@GgggGggg-mm7ci]

Thanks very much! I'm working on a neocities site and this is very helpful! Awesome voice btw

[@user-sy6wp1pw1l]

you are so freakin cool and awesome man

[@teotti8019]

very good explanation of basic concept and the use of the addon thank you

[@mickyr171]

Cheers mate, been trying to figure out how to use it, this helped immensely

[@DiegoPerez-us8el]

Hey! i love how u present things, very useful keep going!

[@josonlchui7884]

I love this add-on, it makes my life easy. Thx.

[@cslavov]

Actually very useful little addon.

[@funrevival2]

Hey, I love the idea, but would love it more if it worked in Blender 2.9. For some reason the ImageMagick and Gifsicle are not installing.

[@S5R_0005]

it starts at 6:00

[@James4TheWynne]

you are a legend my man!

[@rafaelramires5883]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@delrye7785]

THANK YOU

[@HelloHiHola]

My pleasure!

[@82delighted]

hello.. i have a problem .. the PNG folder is created but the GIF file is not created.. i thought it may take some times to convert the PNG files to GIF but it never happened... do u have any idea what should i do? i am using blender 2.82a

[@HelloHiHola]

Although inconvenient, can you test with fewer total frames (shorter gif) - this might be like a problem I had too...

[@spsvt6471]

HelloHiHola Same problem here. I tried to export .gif with only 5 frames but the file of .png frame appeared instead but the .gif file is missing. The frame size is 1440*1080px. Not sure why it doesn’t work.

[@comfijoshi6043]

Thank you man, very well done.

[@heutoonstudio5122]

muito boa a explicação, consegui resolver aqui e aprendi muita coisa sobre os balanço da camera, faltou um Olá bem brasileiro kkk

[@searchingforcoconuts2248]

thanks for the great tutorial... can you or anyone else explain why a 5 second timeline on blender, result in a 11 second gif..? Tried to frame adjust, maybe i'm doing it wrong..? dunno please help

[@antondingir884]

im doing same thing but for some reason i get a folder with png frames not a .gif animation..

[@oKieran]

have you managed to solve this? I have the same issue

[@Nomadjackalope]

@@oKieran I had to try less frames. Then it worked.

[@alessandrodicesare2970]

Hello! I don't know why the "Render GIF" button is disabled. can you help me?

[@tobiasrappo]

so gooood

[@444traper]

Ive tried using it but for some reason every time it just makes a folder rendering every frame individualy instead of a single gif anyone knows what could this be?

[@maydaymaydayletsplay1893]

You have to wait First png then gif then it is added together. Blender 3.0 works.

[@Night44509]

@@maydaymaydayletsplay1893 ive done the same thing but theres no gif only pngs

[@chxrryyyyy]

thank you so much !!

[@HelloHiHola]

Bligify in good health.

[@km1310]

thanks a lot very useful

[@SaxaphoneMan42]

have you explored much more on what the frame limit could be? what was the longest animation you were able to make into a gif?

[@HelloHiHola]

Very awkward for me - broken computer won't run Blender. Prior, I hadn't found that sweetspot in length nor tracked down any help from the Bligify maker. Sorry.

[@SaxaphoneMan42]

@@HelloHiHola all good, found out that most longer gifs have issues posting to various platforms, in my case bligify was certainly not the bottleneck

[@reisaki18]

it doesn't make sense if you want long animated gifs. But maybe the longest is 8 secs in order to properly use on the web. If you want more than that, you should not use gifs instead but mp4.

[@vintprox]

I LOVE TACOS! 😁😂

[@talaonce]

I cant convert it into a gif, it just stops after it's done rendering, it just makes a black box on my cursor and nothing happens.

[@drchriswilmer]

Do you do voice acting or voice over work? I could listen to this tutorial all day!

[@HelloHiHola]

I'm available! Honestly, I'd like to help fellow animators who are looking for a voice like mine :) Maybe you'll hear me more often!

[@Abdullah_Al-Aqidi]

great !!!!!

[@zerack]

Does it works with Cycles rendering... Personally, the whole folder disappears at the end of the render... I don’t know why...

[@Ponlets]

why did you not link to it in the description :

[@HelloHiHola]

To make you work. Links can get high jacked. Video descriptions for search engines even years later seemed enough. It's a valid question though.

[@Ponlets]

@@HelloHiHola i have never on youtube had a link get hijacked

[@mattarmstrong6478]

Hi, thanks for the video. I have been doing GIFs using Dimension and Photoshop but I want to now use Blender instead of photoshop. Do u have any videos on how to do a 3D GIF with a rotating 3d object? I can tell its going to be simple but just curious if you've Done one.

[@HelloHiHola]

I haven't but it would be elementary. There's a school of practice on Twitter with folks making "hologram" animations - 3D objects in 80's neon colors looping through some attractive cycles.

[@mattarmstrong6478]

@@HelloHiHola do you know how I'd find this group if like to follow them and learn it

[@ernestorodriguez4742]

It exports PNG files sequence instead of one GIF image. Could you please explain how to get one gif file? Thanks

[@HelloHiHola]

I checked it out soon as I could - seems new Blender won't play nice without explicit placement of gifsicle and imagemagick which ARE shipped with the 15MB big "bligify_windows.zip." (Get that, then copy/paste) Typical operation creates the folder of png's, then coverts them and deletes the folder. Without the two exe files, only that folder and its contents are created.

[@user-be1ek7fp7i]

Полезная инфа, а просмотров мало.

[@HelloHiHola]

Finally looked this up. Agreed. Thank you.

[@osmanof9209]

согласен, спасибо автору

[@johntoledo8965]

Hi,HelloHiHola, Love the tutorial. But somehow Bligify doesn't install on the latest Blender 2.91.0 release? Any idea? Thanks.

[@HelloHiHola]

2.8 to 2.9 was a big jump but there should be some error code you could reference on forums for any assistance. I'm afraid I can't do much else at this point.

[@johntoledo8965]

@@HelloHiHola Thanks man. ​ @HelloHiHola Thanks man. And man your voice, Jesus ! I could listen to you read the phone directory ( if you're old enough to know what that is ) all day.

[@furkanemin4145]

idk of you still react but, can i call this add on gif exporter be called via python?

[@HelloHiHola]

it's a good question but not something I have any experience with :( I hope the documentation can get you where you want to go.

[@vlusky_husky]

Would be VERY helpful if you just give the download link in the description. Also I'm here for the add-on, not how to make the loop itself. So an additional timestamp would also be helpful. Anyway, good tutorial! Just some minor nitpicks. Thanks.

[@markm0559]

An that would be at about 6.:36 minutes

[@BLACKICEXlV]

i dont understand i press render gif and it gives me pngs? what am i supposed to do

[@HelloHiHola]

It's been a while but if I remember correctly it's a two-step process. The png files are just part 1 - after the gif animation is put together the program goes back and deletes the PNGs

[@BLACKICEXlV]

but theres no gif unless i cant find it somehow @@HelloHiHola

[@javierherrera8021]

Is that really your voice? :O :O :O :O

[@Zallad97]

*epilepsy warning*

[@strukitru]

1:08 I dont know what u did there ... whats Shift + Accent or Brave .. I am crying of stupidness

[@HelloHiHola]

No sweat! Shift + Grave (so I've heard it called) is that button, Tilda, maybe, top-left beneath the Escape key typically on standard Windows keyboards.It's the new "Fly" method enabling WASD controls.

[@strukitru]

@@HelloHiHola Found out how to work with the camera, thanks a lot!

[@scroptels]

how to make seizure gif.... should put a warning ar least

[@alexandreducrocq3786]

8 minutes video, 6 minutes useless. PLease stay focus on the plugin :(