I’ve used a number of different GIF creation tools, and many of them don’t really strike that balance of ease of use and functionality. Some I’ve seen don’t even actually create the GIF, you need to do some extra legwork for that. But Loop? It’s as easy as can be, and sports a few helpful tools to boot.
Naturally the first thing I wanted to make was a short video of a toy, so I grabbed Reaper from the videogame Overwatch and had at it. With a few stop-motion movements he was moving across my desk, facing the camera, and then falling down comically. I’m a regular Ray Harryhausen. It was all incredibly easy to do, and I had full control over each frame at all times with an easy to read interface that allows users to swap the active camera, enable borders, and of course, snap each shot.
After the creation is complete, it’s up to you to speed it up from 1-10 frames per second, which depending on your project can either make it more or less comical. There’s options for 12 filters (including a few artsy ones like a black and white trace or nonsensical choices like extreme pixelation—even the 4% slider, which thankfully exists, is a little too strong), and nine options to split the image up and duplicate it.
