artifacts in animated GIFs

Question

I created a composition in Illustrator and animated some elements in After Effects. There is an expression to ghet a flicker effect and some animated fire works. When I export as an Animated GIF from AE, I get lots of artifacts across the entire image. Before you say, "do it in Photoshop", a lot of work and many layers went into the original Illustrator composition. Any suggestions? When I export the same clip an Mp4, there is no artifact issue.

Thanks

Rick Gerard · Answer

Try rendering a movie, not an MP4, using the High-Quality Output Module preset in the Render Queue, then open the Movie in Photoshop, change the workspace to motion, remove any duplicate frames, adjust the timing of each frame if needed, then have Photoshop render the animated GIF. You have a lot more color options and control than you can get trying to render a GIF in After Effects.

If you want to be completely efficient when creating an animated give, make sure that there are no duplicate frames in the AE comp. You can set any single frame to any length in Photoshop and dramatically reduce the file size.

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