Sites like Dribbble, that focus on sharing small bits of content from designers have made animated GIFs a common thing to see. Behance too allows designers to upload animated GIFs.īut, even though these GIF’s are so popular and important for many designers to be able to share their work, there hasn’t been an easy way to create them. Commonly, an artist will have to render out an image sequence from After Effects, then load those images into Photoshop, crop them, and save an animated GIF. There are many other ways to achieve this, including online tools, but nothing perhaps as simple for an After Effects user than the newly released GifGun plug-in for After Effects. GifGun has a very simple idea really, make animated GIF creation super simple right out of After Effects. Let’s take a look at how it works and if it delivers on its promise of easy animated GIF-making. On the MAC, users can simply click the installer to set up the plug-in. On Windows, users need to first move the files to the proper AE subfolder before installing.Īdditionally, on either OS, it’s important to first open After Effects and within the general preferences, turn on “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network” if not already checked. Once you have the script installed, you can reopen AE, click on the Window tab and open the script. It should also be noted that the GifGun team built the plug-in with compatibility for After Effects CC 2015, CC 2014, and CC. The makers claim that it also works with CS6 and CS5, but that they didn’t do much testing on those platforms.
Note as well that older versions of After Effects have a GIF-making tool, but it’s been removed from new versions, so GifGun is for those with more up to date versions of AE. For the first release, the team said they wanted to make it easy and intuitive. There is basically one button that says “Make Gif”. Push that button and your comp will render a gif around your in and out points. You do have a few control options as well. You can set up a folder for your GIF’s to render to. You can set the GIF width, and the height will adjust to match. You can set frame rate, and also save a video file. This does mean, that there are some limitations of course. There is only one compression algorithm right now.
According to comments on the AE Scripts page for the product, they are already working on incorporating other compression algorithms and adding more control panel options.Ĭheck out the result that GifGun put out from our project above.
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