>>23586326Tumblr gifs are kept below 1 MB, which invariably leads to:
Less colours, leading to dithering and artifacting.
Banding means the background is a bunch of coloured stripes instead of a gradient, like it should be.
Bad looping. Usually you'd want to capture the whole scene as a gif (in this case the entire flying sequence), tumblr gifs are usually a few seconds long at most because of their size restrictions.
Retarded resolution, downscaled from the original resolution (probably 640x480) to fit Tumblr's max horizontal resolution of 500 pixels (so it fits in better on their grid style layout). If you HAVE to scale down to get a reasonable filesize, it should be scaled to an integer, e.g. a 1280x720 video should be scaled down to 640x360 or even 320x180. Non-integer downscaling leads to artifacting, which increases filesize as it's harder to compress, compounding the WHOLE FUCKING SHITSHOW.
Here's an example of a good gif that accomplishes much more with a SMALLER filesize, made by someone competent. Almost the same exact resolution, too! It compresses well because (to my knowledge) it was made for this resolution.
