First of all, thank you for even being willing to share and take the time to put together a list of tutorials! <33 I don’t think I’d ever be able to make such crisp and high quality gifs as you but I’d love to learn where to start! Thank you again! 🥹 <3
Aww anon of course!! I'm always happy to see people getting into gifmaking, especially in our fandom!
As promised here is my list of tutorials. These were crucial for me when I was first starting out, but there are so many tutorials that you can find by just searching "gif tutorial". The gif maker community does a great job of sharing information.
List under the cut to save space
What I used when first starting out:
This tutorial is the one I used to help me set up mpv on my computer. This is the best tutorial on how to set up mpv and how to use it to make gifs.
This tutorial by cal-kestis was the first I used in learning how to make gifs, it was an excellent guide and really helped me learn how to make gifs.
The blog Usergif is probably the best resource for all things gif. It has literally every tutorial known to man, from basic gif making to complex blending, you name it they've got it. It's my go to blog when I want to learn something. This is the link to the directory for all of their tutorials, I use it so much I actually have this page bookmarked
The following tutorials I looked at after I learned how to make gifs and was trying to see what other cool things I could do:
redbelles - full gifmaking tutorial, from getting footage to coloring to posting, really great tutorial. This is a 10/10 guide for learning how to gif, I put it down here because I didn't come across it until after I had learned how to gif.
thorodinsson - gifmaking tutorial, this focuses more on cropping, sharpening, and basic coloring techniques. Its really good for beginners.
haleths - sharpening tutorial, this was key to helping me when I was first starting
magnusedom - coloring tutorial, I used this a lot when I was first learning how to color. Does a great job of explaining how you can use curve layers to really change the coloring of a scene. Once I learned that it really changed how I colored
usergif - coloring tutorial, I used this a lot when I was first trying to learn how to do more complex coloring manipulation
aubrey-plaza - channel mixer tutorial, this does a really great job of explaining how to use the channel mixer. It does take time to figure it out but its super powerful once you do
And that concludes my list. There are definitely more tutorials that I have used, but the ones I've mentioned are without a doubt the ones that have been key in learning how to gif. If you have any questions feel free to send another ask or you can dm me directly :)
I'm trying to make a list of tutorials/websites on how to make GIFS so if you know any good ones please contact me c: These are the only ones I know of right now.
