• the script showcased in this guide is not free.
  
• This guide serves above all to showcase a nice alternative allowing to render gifs directly inside After effect.
  
• This guide is intended to artists who whants to improve their workflow, at the cost of 30$
  
• Each gifs presented in this guide as been rendered with the Script

GifGun is a simple 1-click tool that brought After Effects and GIFs together. With GifGun you can make a .gif right within After Effects and in one click.

The 30$ script is compatible with:

• After Effects CC 2018
  
• After Effects CC 2017
  
• After Effects CC 2015.3
  
• After Effects CC 2015
  
• After Effects CC 2014
  
• After Effects CC

With the most recent version, it's possible to Batch Render ( Render multiple compositions in 1 click )

Since the version 1.6, it's possible to render with Alpha channel.

Set default gif folder
• Possibility to set a default folder, ideal for Dropbox, other cloud sync or saving into a project folder
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  Resize gif
• Possibility to resize GIFs and keep their width/height ratio
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  Adjust color paletter
• Possibility to adjust the color Paletter to 256,128,64,32 or 8
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  Set framerate
• Possibilty to adjust the framerate to 30,25,20,15,12 or 10
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  create Backup
• Possibility to backup the project into a video files when creating a GIFs
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  Loop
• Possibility to not loop the GIFs
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• It small interface make it dockable pretty much every where.
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• The script write files way faster than photoshop
  
  
• Once rendered, the GIFs are similar to what photoshop can produce
  see an exemple here : https://imgur.com/a/T23eS
  
  
• GIFs are always lighter than those produced in photoshop

• features can be a bit limitative. For exemple, thanks to the user Timo making me notice, diffusion and color matte are not possible with GifGun. In a case where you use gradients or motion blur,as exemple, GifGun will not be able to render out nice files.
  
  
  • here's the difference using an extreme case: https://imgur.com/a/Aj03l
    
    • photoshop gives a way better result, as expected
  
  
• The script is a bit overpriced, but the result are here. Most of the time, In 10sec I have what I would normaly get in 10min within photoshop.

GifGun allows us to work a bit faster. It remove the pain of jumping from After Effect to Photoshop and again from Photoshop to After Effect. GifGun make our workflow much more simpler, and in my case, after 8 months, I still get extremely good results. Wheter it is complex compositing or simple animation, with what i'm doing, GIFs are always on the same quality level of photoshop.

The Script is not given, I know, but it's a nice tool to have. Yes, sometime you'll need to render your files in photoshop. But, 99% of the time, GifGun will make an awesome job.

The product is on sale at https://aescripts.com/gifgun/ for 30$

30$ seems expensives, and that's quite true. But, with that price, if you take artwork request anf get paid for your work, saved time quickly makes the money profitable.

https://aescripts.com/gifgun/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKRKvhxLfg
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• this video showcase an old version of the script and miss some feature
  
  • Still, it's a good exemple of what the script is able to deliver