Exporting animation to GIF

AnPan

Hi there,

I'm fairly new to Spine, I've transferred over from Live2D. Whenever I try to render out a GIF in Spine, the file size is huge (36,000 KB+). I'm looking for the best way to render an animation out with a small file size (under 3MB in size for Steam), is this something that is possible to do, and if so, how? Just to clarify, the file size needs to be a GIF format and it needs to be under 3MB. Thanks in advance!

Nate

Spine generates the highest quality GIFs that are possible, but it doesn't try to optimize for a small file size.

What is your GIF dimensions? Smaller dimensions and lower frame rate are the easiest ways to make the file smaller, especially for a long GIF. Otherwise you could post process the GIF with other software to make a smaller GIF, but it will wreck the quality.

GIF is actually a very old (30+ years!) and pretty terrible format. Video is likely a better option, if possible.

AnPan

Hey thanks for the quick reply.

The dimensions are 800x450. I'm not entirely sure why this is the only format Steam will accept when posting a video like this, but unfortunately it is the only format accepted. 🙁 I've also tried rendering through premiere pro/after affects with the same large file results. Any other recommendations for programs?

Nate

Sorry, I don't know which GIF tool is the best, only that there are many out there. I'd start by Googling gif smaller size and trying one of the many websites that do it. Ideally the tool provides some control over the quality reduction, like maybe this one:
https://www.onlineconverter.com/compress-gif

stikkanimate

Hi AnPan, you mention you have Adobe products so if you have Photoshop, I can recommend you import your render into Photoshop and use Export > Save for Web (Legacy)

From there you can see in real time how things will get crunched and you can choose which colors to exclude or compression settings for best result.