We import the movie 'Spring' with Add > MovieĪnd load it into the channels of the Video Sequencer. We start Blender and create with File > New> Video Editing a new project with the 'Video Editing' workspace already selected You can get a gif from both a movie and a sequence of images, which can contain for example an animation created with Blender (therefore indirectly we also answer the question 'how to render animations created in Blender in gif format'), in our case we will save in gif format a piece (any one, without any particular meaning) of the short film Spring, made by the Blender Animation Studio (in our case the resolution of the movie is 1280x536 with 24 frames per second). With the advent of social networks, chats, and advanced messaging (Whatsapp, Telegram, Messenger etc.) and the spread of MEME fashion, however, the importance of spreading animated graphic files that were light and readable by all players, thus causing the revival of the GIF format. The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) was invented many years ago, in 1987, and in the 1990s it was one of the few methods to insert an animation into an html page, but later fell into disuse due to the emergence of new technologies, such as Flash and HTML5. In this tutorial we will see how to create an animated gif in Blender (updated to Blender 2.8) using the Bligify addon.

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