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Have you wondered how you can make your own gifs?

Now, certainly, this is not the easiest way, but it is a fun project for learning, and heck, it might come in useful one day ;)

[You may remember that I already covered how to create a movie from time-lapse photographs](https://steemit.com/linux/@makerhacks/converting-videos-and-creating-timelapse-from-photographs-in-linux), this is similar and takes the technique a couple of steps further.


### Code

#### [Full Code Gist Here](https://gist.github.com/omiq/159e042339d3d27f2e6a490924d881fd)

First, we need some modules.

OS and Shutil are for shell operations, because we need to call tools and create/delete folders.

```
import os
import shutil
from PIL import ImageFont
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageDraw

```
Next, we create the folder if it does not already exist, nuking the contents if it does. 

We also create our image, loading in a background first.

```
if os.path.exists('frames'):
    shutil.rmtree('frames')
os.mkdir('frames')
img_background = Image.open('background.png')
img = Image.new("RGBA", img_background.size, (0, 0, 0, 255))
```

We need three colours, and a nice font.

```
x = 10
y = 10
silver = (100, 100, 100, 255)
purple = (100, 0, 200, 255)
white = (255, 255, 255, 255)
text = '''Boing!'''
font = ImageFont.truetype("/home/chrisg/Ubuntu-B.ttf", 75)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
```


Now we create the frames of animation, 24 frames for 1 second. All I am doing here is adding text to each frame in a different location, you can get wild in yours!

```
for N in range(0, 24):
    y += N
    img.paste(img_background, (0, 0))
    draw.text((x+4, y+4), text, purple, font=font)
    draw.text((x+2, y+2), text, silver, font=font)
    draw.text((x, y), text, white, font=font)
    img.save("./frames/{}.png".format(str(N).zfill(3)))
```

All that is left is to generate an AVI then convert to gif.

For higher quality we can come back and [optimize the palette](https://steemit.com/programming/@makerhacks/how-to-get-higher-quality-gifs-with-ffmpeg), but for simplicity this is sufficient for now!

```
os.system('ffmpeg -framerate 24 -i frames/%03d.png -c:v ffv1 -r 24 -y out.avi')
os.system('ffmpeg -y -i out.avi out.gif')
shutil.rmtree('frames')
```

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