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Tech wizards, I need your help (Patreon)

Published:
2023-05-02 19:02:32
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2023-05

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Or anyone who knows, really.

Some of my animations are stupidly big. I uh, don't really know what makes some bigger than others. Like, one Frankie one was like 20 MBs a file. It makes my whole page slow as shit. Why is it so big? I'd have to consult our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because I have absolutely no clue.

I tried everything to fix this, which was trying to make the canvas dimensions smaller, which didn't really work, and then also trying to make the canvas dimensions even smaller, which still didn't really work. I also tried flattening all my layers before rendering, but Krita already does that in the rendering process, so I really just wasted my time. 

My question to you all, is what format would be better to render these out in? I can render as MP4s, which makes the file size tiny. But would these still automatically loop? I'm also trying to keep my mobile user bros in mind, how can they blast ropes to something they can't even open easily? I can render in WEBMs, but iPhone can't open those. If you know how to (hopefully easily) make gifs smaller, lemme know. Y'all should think of me as like, someone's grandpa. That's the tech level I'm at. 

My other question is, how do real animators store all their work? One really cool guy told me about making a Google Drive, and even offered to make it for me, but this cross should be mine to bear, I don't want to force anyone to do work for me. What kind of format do people use for this? And how exactly would I keep the free and exclusive stuff separate? How would my exclusive buds even have access to the exclusive stuff? Would there be like... a code or a password? I have no idea about any of this stuff, I honestly didn't even think I'd get as far as I have, thanks to all of your support.

So, any advice would be appreciated, if you know of any ways that other lewd animators render, present, and store their work for easy access. Or, shit, if you just have a good idea that no one has done, lemme know. I want to get this all set up so it's easier for you guys to download these stupidly big animations. Hell, any other advice would be appreciated too, if I'm being a moron in other areas, which I know for sure I am. DM me or leave a comment, and I'll get around to reading them.

Thanks!

- KOIDE

Comments

Anonymous

I personally have a NAS I store my photography on its a out 8tb and in the 3 years I've had it I've used about 60-70% of it?

Mark

I was able to drastically reduce the size of your gifs using ffmpeg to split them up into individual frames and then gifski to stitch them back together into a gif. For instance, FOS_03_CE_VAR_01.gif went from 22.7mb down to 6.84mb with minimal loss in quality. If you wanted, I'd be happy to put together a batch or bash script for you to automate this process. Another option would be to upload multiple file types for different users. Big .gifs for desktop users, small .mp4 files for mobile users. As for storage, either Mega or Google Drive would be a good idea. Create one folder for the public/free stuff and another for the exclusive/paid stuff and share the links separately, perhaps?

KYDE
>>107675899

Sick, I'll look into that. 8tb is massive, my master file I keep all the final renders, Krita core files, and backups for every animation I've done is only 19 gigs so far. I don't think I have enough lifespan to fill 8tb.

KYDE
>>107676032

Awesome, this is real detailed. A script would be super cool, though I have no idea how I'd make it work. I barely passed Intro to Computer Science in university. This is all cool though, I'll write it all down and look into these

Androo Gnoix

Ezgif.com I use to downsize

Anonymous

Mega.nz for sharing exclusives. You can make the links password protected. (Put the variations in 7zip files to save storage space)

Undead

https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/ would get you half way there, allowing for you to access Google Drive from the CMDLine. If you set a NAS up, you could use that as a server and automate the process of posting entirely.

Mark
>>107676032

I've thrown together a batch script that runs through every gif file in an input folder, converts them, and spits out the smaller versions into an output folder. Ran it against 100 of the largest gifs you've posted on here, and it reduced the file size from 1.41gb to 750mb. I'll put together a quick readme and put it up on github shortly

Acornzzz

I don't know what programs you use so it's hard to tell you exactly what to do. Everyone is saying what to do but not why and how. I haven't looked into it too much but it sounds like you should try compressing your files or lowering your bitrate. When you save/export your files look for options that says bitrate and/or compression. What it does is basically says that if this pixel is exactly the same as the pixel in the next frame, then don't save that information. Lower bitrate and/or higher compression results in smaller file size but it will affect quality (arteacts may form on the animation). If you find those options try to lower bitrate and/or increase compression to your liking.

Anonymous
>>107675899

Yeah I shoot alot of HDR so every photo has the 5 brackets, the rendered image, the photoshoped image and the compressed web friendly version

FranFantasma (edited)

Comment edits

2023-05-05 02:21:59 After you click "Render Animation" and the little window pops up, look for "Render as: [gif image ]" and click the button with three dots "[...]" right next to it. On the little pop up, uncheck "Transparency Difference". Be advised, if you want the final GIF to have transparency, this will probably remove it. On Patreon, I would recommend uploading only one GIF, then uploading the rest in a ZIP file, in the attachments section of the post (To create ZIP: select images, right click, Send to... >, Compressed (zipped) folder).
2023-05-03 15:09:28 After you click "Render Animation" and the little window pops up, look for "Render as: [gif image ]" and click the button with three dots "[...]" right next to it. On the little pop up, uncheck "Transparency Difference". Be advised, if you want the final GIF to have transparency, this will probably remove it. On Patreon, I would recommend uploading only one GIF, then uploading the rest in a ZIP file, in the attachments section of the post (To create ZIP: select images, right click, Send to... >, Compressed (zipped) folder).

After you click "Render Animation" and the little window pops up, look for "Render as: [gif image ]" and click the button with three dots "[...]" right next to it. On the little pop up, uncheck "Transparency Difference". Be advised, if you want the final GIF to have transparency, this will probably remove it. On Patreon, I would recommend uploading only one GIF, then uploading the rest in a ZIP file, in the attachments section of the post (To create ZIP: select images, right click, Send to... >, Compressed (zipped) folder).

Azathoughtless

Have you tried drawing smaller