To create an animation in gif format, starting from a movie or a sequence of images, you can usually either use specialized software for this function or generic applications for 2D graphics, such as GIMP or Krita.īlender cannot export directly to the gif format, however the Bligify addon can be used, which can be downloaded from For vertical Y coordinates, a bottom and y: 0.04 alignment was chosen
Has been added to the text field "Cute!", loaded the Arial font (from the Windows "Fonts" directory), the text has been enlarged up to 195 for the writing the central horizontal alignment was chosen and then positioned not in the center (0.5) but slightly out of phase to the right (x: 0.53). We can move the text trace to frame number 8, dragging it with the mouse, and use the property window on the right (activated by pressing the "N" key) to customize it appropriately To create a Meme you may need an inscription, which we will add from the VSE menu with Add > TextĪnd a new track will be added to channel number three The total animation lasts longer than the movie, which is long (considering the values calculated before) 7848-7776 = 72 frames, therefore we write 72 in the "End" field of the Timeline, thus adapting the animation to the movie. Let's now bring the movie to the beginning of the channel: we had calculated that the interesting portion started after 7776 frames, so just select the audio and video track and move them to the left, pressing G and X (horizontal movement), writing -7776 + 1 = - 7775, because the frames are displayed by the number 1, and confirming with the ENTER key. We select the video track and the audio track, with the left mouse button keeping the SHIFT key pressed, and we press the SHIFT+K keys to cut
We position the cursor at the end of the movie we want to cut, that is to say 5: 27 + 00, or we calculate its frames (5 * 60 = 300 + 27 = 327 * 24 = 7848) With the left mouse button we select the video and audio track (when selecting a track, always click in the center, otherwise the side handles are selected), holding down the SHIFT button, and we press the SHIFT+K keys to cut Or calculate the position directly, obtaining the number of seconds (5 * 60 = 300 + 24 = 324) and multiplying them by the number of frames per second (324 * 24 frames per second = 7776), writing the result in the timeline and pressing ENTER Let us now cut out the portion of the movie that we want to convert into a gif: we can position the cursor, which is located above the channels, corresponding to the value 5:24+00 Select the video strip and press "." in the numeric keypad to adapt its view to the window (you can use the mouse wheel later to better resize it)
In this tutorial we will see how to create an animated gif in Blender (updated to Blender 2.8) using the Bligify addon.