Making animated Gifs with Blender

Making animated Gifs with Blender
1. Install imagemagick with this command -

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

2. Set Blender up to render animations to png images (or similar) instead of a video format.

3. Make sure the colour is set to RGB not RGBA.

4. Press Animate.

5. Go to the default render directory (this will be /tmp in linux) where you should find a lot of png files.

6. Type this command to create your gif from those pngs -

convert -delay 4 -loop 0 *.png animated.gif

7. Enjoy your new animated gif.

Note - the delay setting refers to 1/100ths of a second. so in the example above 4/100th = 25fps.