Then finally, I went back and added color – this is the final result. On the next pass, I cleaned up the lineart. Here’s a tutorial on Inbetweening by the next pass, I refined the lineart, shapes and expressions a bit on each frame.

I did frame-by-frame animation in FireAlpaca first, starting with an incredibly, roughly drawn animation for the first pass to get the initial timing down.Īt this stage, you start with keyframes and then just keep drawing inbetween frames until you get the movement you want. In Photoshop, I made simple animations using the frame animation tool as shown in this helpful tutorial by for the Sanders Sides animation, I used a combination of FireAlpaca and Krita, both of which are free programs. Well-timed sequence of still drawings is actually showing movement – it’s all a big illusion~ So any program you use to draw could potentially help you make gifs. But while it might take a little leg work to find a process you can afford that works best for you, don’t get too bogged down trying to find the best program – that’s kind of what I did after I had to cancel my Photoshop subscription and it just made me waste time that I could’ve spent animating.Īnimation is simply the art of tricking people into thinking that a There’s plenty of programs you can use to make gifs, and some of them (especially the ones you have to pay for) make the process much easier. To start, for me, the best way to make gifs is first to just think of them as animations (don’t think about it being a gif).

This will be a pretty in-depth answer, so I’m sorry in advance for the length! Someone asked how I make GIF animations after I posted the Sanders Sides animation I did for I wanted to share my answer with others!

How to make gifs in firealpaca