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https://github.com/doakey3/Bligify

Blender addon for exporting and importing animated GIF sequences
https://github.com/doakey3/Bligify

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Blender addon for exporting and importing animated GIF sequences

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Bligify

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Installation

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Use the correct release for your Blender version. Add-ons for Blender 2.80 and above will not work for Blender 2.79



You will need to download the appropriate zip file for your system,

navigate in Blender to File > User Preferences > Add-ons > Install

Add-on from File... and install the zip file you downloaded.



If you are using an operating system other than Windows, you will also

need to install ImageMagick and Gifsicle.



You'll find the Bligify tool in the "Tools Tab."



Windows

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Install using the "Bligify_Windows.zip" file from the `latest release`_.



This zip file contains the necessary executables from ImageMagick and

Gifsicle for Windows 64 bit operating systems.



Mac

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Install using the "Bligify.zip" file from the `latest release`_.



You can install both ImageMagick and Gifsicle using Homebrew_



.. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/



To install Homebrew, open a terminal and paste this command into the

terminal and press enter:



    `/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"`



To install ImageMagick, enter this into the terminal



    `brew install ImageMagick`



To install Gifsicle, enter this into the terminal



    `brew install gifsicle`



Linux

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Install using the "Bligify.zip" file from the `latest release`_.



Installation of Gifsicle and ImageMagick is dependent on your system.



If you're using Arch linux, this addon is available on the Arch User

Repository as blender-plugin-bligify_



.. _blender-plugin-bligify: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blender-plugin-bligify/



Usage

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A `Tutorial Video`_ is available for an early version of the addon.



.. _Tutorial Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJ_ToZFKmY



If you want to export gifs with transparency, set the "Shading" Alpha to Transparent and change the PNG type to RGBA in the render settings.



.. image:: https://i.imgur.com/qSKNCZQ.jpg



GIF Quality

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.. image:: http://i.imgur.com/LEpKMXP.png



You can adjust the settings to fine-tune the quality of your animated

GIF (and it's filesize). For most situations, the default settings

should give good results. You can learn more about each of the settings

by hovering your mouse over them or by reading the `Gifsicle Manpage`_



.. _Gifsicle Manpage: https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/man.html



FPS Adjustment

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High frame rates will make output filesize much larger. You can easily

adjust a video's frame rate with the FPS adjust tool. It changes the

scene FPS value and adds a speed modifier to selected clips to maintain

playback speed.



.. image:: http://i.imgur.com/njWvf7S.gif



I recommend you try setting the Dither to "Floyd-Stienberg" and checking

the box that says "Dither Conversion". These 2 properties typically make

good quality GIFs that are also small. They can cause artifacts, so they

are not enabled by default.



Render GIF

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Render the animation to PNG files. Convert those PNGs to GIFs. Finally,

convert the GIFs to an animated GIF.



.. image:: http://i.imgur.com/pvydLO8.gif



Import GIF

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Separate an animated GIF into it's frames. Convert those GIFs to PNGs

and import the PNGs into the sequencer.



.. image:: http://i.imgur.com/lhjCOCG.gif



.. _ImageMagick: https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

.. _Gifsicle: https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/



.. _latest release: https://github.com/doakey3/Bligify/releases