Any advice on easy way to make my own custom gif?

Some of the guys on here use GIMP which is free IIRC, but most of us use Photoshop which makes it pretty simple to pull in .gifs which you can then save as an animation after you're finished editing it.

After Effects would be your best bet, but there is a stiff learning curve that comes with it.

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Or is there an easy way to do it that I'm missing?

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You're looking to automate the process and unfortunately, there is nothing to my knowledge which will do that.

One thing which I do for my gifs is to use the cut out head and put it as the last layer. That way it's in every layer already, but you just have to move it around depending on their motion.

This one for example:


The "head" is actually Ken Bone's sweater in this case and is adjusted to each frame to create the motion of the dropping sweater.

Or this one:



It's simple once you get the hang of it. Problem with 450 frames + .gifs is that the size will be fricking huge more than likely. Might want to upload it as a video instead.

Here's a better representation of the moving heads



All about layering.

Appreciate the help but I gave up. Tried messing around with it for a while, but with no experience in photo editing, trying to edit a whole gif just for a quick troll isn't worth this much trouble. Thought it would be fairly easy to figure out but I was wrong