# Animation?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/animation/77484>\
**Category:** Grasshopper\
**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/animation/77484 "2019-01-17T13:31:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Sukey\_Thomas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/sukey_thomas/32/46186_2.png) [@Sukey\_Thomas](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Sukey_Thomas)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/animation/77484/21 "2021-04-05T14:50:39Z")

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Aha! That is super helpful, thanks!

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**Author:** ![Jonish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/jonish/32/474849_2.png) [@Jonish](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Jonish)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/animation/77484/22 "2021-04-07T09:45:02Z")

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It’s still super annoying. Currently all formats work but:  
JPG has horrid compression which cannot be adjusted.  
PNG works incorrectly with transparency so the only format that’s usable is…  
BMP. O\_O Haven’t used BMP since 1999 or so until now. A simple animation is 5 GBs however.

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**Author:** ![diff-arch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/diff-arch/32/528268_2.png) [@diff-arch](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/diff-arch)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 10:09am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/animation/77484/23 "2021-04-07T10:09:27Z")

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A work around would be to export BMPs and transcode to JPG with the [Tapeworm](https://www.food4rhino.com/app/tapeworm) plugin.

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**Author:** ![stephen.andrew.benne](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/stephen.andrew.benne/32/480738_2.png) [@stephen.andrew.benne](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/stephen.andrew.benne)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/animation/77484/26 "2024-05-10T16:33:05Z")

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I use photoshop to combine them! just tick the box that says “image sequence” in the open prompt window above the filepath input

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