Im not sure whats going on i render my animation as a gif and i get the same result
Im unsure whats going on as the pngs look fine is it the ffmpeg?
Hello @BoneTiger and welcome to the forum 
Do you mean, e.g. the black streak that appears on the cat’s tongue as it licks the screen?
I’ve opened your animated .gif in GIMP and there is no smearing on the imported frames.
Your animation shows a strange moving colour curtain and that is not present in the recovered frames in GIMP.
There is colour dithering though and that is to be expected when krita exports as .gif.
When I exported from GIMP as an animated .gif then that also showed exactly the same ‘smearing’.
This might be a general problem with making an animated .gif or it may be a browser playback problem or a combination of the two.
It’s 256 x 256 pixels, 12 frames at 10 fps.
Can you Render it as a .png image sequence, zip them all up then make them available using a file sharing service or website?
I’d like to try using the original .png images in GIMP instead of recovering the colour dithered frames from your animation here.
Edit:Add:
I got that wrong. Krita is exporting as .png then the .png images are passed over to ffmpeg to make an animated .gif.
So, it must be ffmpeg that’s dithering the colours.
I would like to see how GIMP’s animated output deals with this so please make the .png frames available.
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There seem to be two issues here.
- Looking in GIMP, seems like Frame 4 should be combine and Frame 8 should be replace. This issue seems to be somehow fixed by going in Krita’s gif render options (the
...button next to Render as) and turning off “Transparency Difference”. (I tested with a reconstructed version of the gif.) - The transparent parts are not getting replaced (blanked) correctly. I don’t know how to fix that issue.
I’m not sure what the cause of either issue is.
As a side note, dithering is another option in the render options. But since gif is kind of an outdated format not designed for more than 255 colors, it’s recommended to use dithering or a small palette.
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The animation shown does have a limited palette so disabling dithering in the render options might take care of the problem.
Maybe @BoneTiger can try that and report on the result.
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no my colors are like not staying in the lines so yur saying its a browser thing?
its not a browser thing i look at it on my phone and its the same exact way. the colors arent staying where they’re supposed to stay it looks glitched
@BoneTiger Can you please provide the rendered .png sequence, or even better you could provide the original .kra file?
Many people here are capable of recreating this by hand painting over your animated .gif frames but I see no point in doing that when you have the original .kra file and could easily share it by using a file downloading service/website.
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I’m not sure, but do you possibly mean the colors look different if you load the animation into other apps or watch it on a different display like your phone, tablet, desktop, whatever?
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