this is what one of the individual frames looked like before being made into a gif.
tbh i cannot seem to figure out if gimp will let me create GIFS or if it only optimizes images for it, so if anyone could help with that i'd greatly appreciate it. the only thing ive been able to make with it so far is sphere/ripple animations which dont allow for stop motion because they are just one image with an effect over it.
i really hate losing this much quality, and i had found a site that allowed me to create and download pretty hq GIFS, but it doesnt seem to support anything but very lossy formats now