# Animated GIFs possible **URL:** \ **Category:** ETC\ **Created:** [January 25, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/animated-gifs-possible/2341 "2018-01-25T10:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fanwander](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/fanwander/32/5076_2.png) [@fanwander](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/fanwander)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/animated-gifs-possible/2341/1 "2018-01-25T10:54:40Z")
Just an idea out of a talk with a colleague (and I don’t have the ETC here, so I can’t test): Can I use animated GIF files? It might be a replacement for video scrubbing ([ETC Video scrubber](http://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/etc-video-scrubber/1996)) ---
**Author:** ![LyingDalai](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/lyingdalai/32/1247_2.png) [@LyingDalai](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/LyingDalai)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/animated-gifs-possible/2341/2 "2018-01-25T11:24:03Z")
😱 Eeek, memes in ETC ! 😭 (interesting idea, still) ---
**Author:** ![fanwander](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/fanwander/32/5076_2.png) [@fanwander](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/fanwander)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/animated-gifs-possible/2341/3 "2018-01-25T11:32:04Z")
![NoAnimatedGIfs](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/critterandguitari/original/2X/8/847c67793910a4af575d160c941038ca4e60a172.jpg) (SCNR 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![thetechnobear](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/thetechnobear/32/42_2.png) [@thetechnobear](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/thetechnobear)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/animated-gifs-possible/2341/4 "2018-01-25T14:41:05Z")
> [@fanwander](#): > > Can I use animated GIF files? pygame doesn’t support animated gifs, you’d have to use something like PIL to pull them apart, and display each frame separately. as I mentioned on the other thread i did get moviepy working, but really it starting opening up questions about cpu/resources … basically pygame/python i think is pretty inefficient. ---
**Author:** ![fanwander](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/fanwander/32/5076_2.png) [@fanwander](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/fanwander)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/animated-gifs-possible/2341/5 "2018-01-25T14:54:04Z")
> [@thetechnobear](#): > > pygame doesn’t support animated gifs Thanks, I feared it alread. ---
**Author:** ![Wannop](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/wannop/32/328_2.png) [@Wannop](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/Wannop)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/animated-gifs-possible/2341/6 "2018-01-25T15:47:44Z")
No difference though really is there? The animated element can be made in python no? Disassemble GIF and throw pictures into patch - they change on a pulse from midi note or sound input… or a knob control speed of ‘playback’? The patch could continuously drive playback itself. ---
**Author:** ![mkunoff](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/mkunoff/32/991_2.png) [@mkunoff](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/mkunoff)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/animated-gifs-possible/2341/7 "2018-01-25T16:56:59Z")
Not exactly an animated GIF, but you can use a phenakistoscope [Examples](https://www.google.com/search?q=phenakistoscope&client=firefox-b-1-ab&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiC1or8yPPYAhUDRa0KHaIxDo8Q_AUICigB&biw=1449&bih=821) with the new [SpinningDiscs](https://patchstorage.com/spinning-discs-640/) mode. @thetechnobear did a proof of concept using the SpinningDisccs mode with some phenakistoscopes here: [https://www.instagram.com/p/BdApf2aBywS/?taken-by=thetechnobear](https://www.instagram.com/p/BdApf2aBywS/?taken-by=thetechnobear) At some point, I’ll create a set of original phenakistoscopes for the ETC. I have other ideas for motion/animation using more “vintage” techniques, which in my view fits the ETC aesthetic.