hey, i was wondering if there is some easy way to export a flipbook and/or render as an animated gif… because, the internet.

are there any handy dandy scripts or can you use cops for this? Otherwise, i was thinking write something in python, maybe?

otherwise otherwise, can somebody recommend a good tool for turning a frame sequence into gifs… gimp maybe?

YES YES YES. GIF ALL THE THINGS.

I've written up some notes on various gif tricks:

http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=GeneralUtilties#Gifs [tokeru.com]

It just occurred to me I could/should wrap up ffmpeg with a unix (shell) rop. Hmm.

oh, thanks! that's a nice lil' reference. I re-found image magick already. I used to use that with Perl back in the day. I can't believe it has been gone from my life for so long!

GIF all the things! GIF all the things!!!

Yeah you gotta love a gif!
It's just a million times easier to view Than any other option. Thanks for the links Mestela.

So have you found a good tool?

This occurred to me few times in the last few months.

Some great reference there between ffmpeg and imagemagik for this,
but I thought it would be nice if there was a python api out there.

looks like there is:
https://ikrima.github.io/houdini_additional_python_docs/images2gif.html [ikrima.github.io]