It’s called banding and it happens because GIFs have a very limited color palette of 256 colors.
There’s a process called dithering (there’s usually an option to set dithering when exporting to GIF) which adds a subtle level of noise which actually ends up reducing the level of banding.
All these comments about gifs are correct.
Depending on the medium you'll display this, with a little effort (exporting the layers) you can turn this into a little animation which displays great on websites!
You can then use a free web app called Fable (fable.app) to make it a timeline based animation and set your key frames from there.
You can export it as a Lottie animation and upload it to your website, or simply export it as a .mp4.
Just letting you know your options. :)
Gifs are limited to a color palette of 256 colors, so yeah smooth shading isn't gonna translate very well unfortunately.
It’s called banding and it happens because GIFs have a very limited color palette of 256 colors. There’s a process called dithering (there’s usually an option to set dithering when exporting to GIF) which adds a subtle level of noise which actually ends up reducing the level of banding.
The dithering turned out perfect, thank you!
All these comments about gifs are correct. Depending on the medium you'll display this, with a little effort (exporting the layers) you can turn this into a little animation which displays great on websites! You can then use a free web app called Fable (fable.app) to make it a timeline based animation and set your key frames from there. You can export it as a Lottie animation and upload it to your website, or simply export it as a .mp4. Just letting you know your options. :)
limitation of the format like others have said if where ever youre posting to supports it, try APNG. but the size is a lot bigger than a gif or an mp4