Glitch GIF Maker

Your image breaks into shifted bands and wrong colors, snaps back clean, then glitches again.

Example Gifs
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About the Glitch animation

Your picture is corrupted a little more on every frame, so bands of it slide sideways, blocks turn magenta, yellow or cyan and parts smear, then it snaps back to the clean image every ten frames and starts falling apart again. It suits vaporwave and cyberpunk styles, album art, stream overlays and edgy profile pictures, and the Extra Glitchiness slider sets how fast it degrades. Colorful photos glitch best.
Good for: Vaporwave edits, Stream overlays, Datamosh style art
Example Glitch GIF
A Glitch GIF made from the sample image.

How to make a Glitch GIF

  1. Upload an image above (JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP), or start with the sample image that is already loaded.
  2. The Glitch animation is selected for you. Adjust the size, speed and total frames, and add filters if you want them.
  3. Click Download Gif. The GIF is made in your browser and saved to your device.

Best Glitch settings

  • Extra Glitchiness: 20 to 45. The default of 0 is a subtle shimmer; this range gets visible RGB tearing while the image stays readable. Past 70 the source is gone.
  • Frames: 20 to 30. Glitches loop convincingly short; long loops repeat their tells.
  • Speed: 25 fps or more. Corruption reads as electrical at speed.

Works best on: text, logos, and neon or high-contrast art. The tearing needs edges to grab.

Watch out: Pairing it with the Pixelate filter at low resolution leaves nothing recognizable to glitch.

Glitch GIF questions

How do I add a glitch effect to an image?
Upload the image, keep Glitch selected, and click Download Gif. Every frame corrupts a little more, then the picture snaps back and starts again. Extra Glitchiness between 20 and 45 gives visible RGB tearing while the image stays readable; past 70 the source is gone.
What length should a glitch GIF be?
Short. 20 to 30 frames at 25 fps or more loops convincingly; long loops repeat their tells and the corruption stops reading as electrical.
What kind of picture glitches best?
Text, logos, neon and high-contrast art. The tearing needs edges to grab. Colorful photos work too; pairing Glitch with the Pixelate filter at a low resolution leaves nothing recognizable.

Related animations

More glitch and effects: Glitch Bands, Shutter, Static, Blink. Or something different: 360 Spin, Wobbly Rotating Cube. Or browse the example gallery.

3D Gif Maker is a free online GIF maker: turn your images into animated gifs in seconds

Simply upload an image, pick an animation style, tweak the parameters, apply filters, and download a gif.

Upload Image

Select an image (jpeg, png, gif) to upload.

Animation

Choose any animation type from the drop-down menu. Play around!

Size

Change the size your downloaded GIF will be. If it's larger than the viewfinder, just hover your mouse! Larger gifs will take longer to make, be patient!

Speed

This decides how "fast" your GIF will move. Less speed = less frames per second & more speed = more frames per second. The GIF file format is limited to a maximum of 50fps, and does some rounding so your preview might not look exactly like the downloaded gif. For more info check out this 10 FPS GIF smoothness guide.

Frames

This can help make it look "smoother" (it can also add a lot to your file size). Play around with the slider, you can't permanently break it!

Filters

You can toggle from a selection of filters including, grayscale, pixelation, mirror, ghost trail, motion blur, trippy, invert colors and more!

Background

Upload a background image. For transparent background, click the "Transparent" box below (note: this will override any uploaded background image).

Download

Click the "Download Gif" button.
Note: Download will *not* work within the Instagram or Facebook App, we are looking for a work around. In the meantime you can just visit the website on your phone's browser app (chrome, safari) and download will work.
You can adjust the axis view on desktop by clicking and dragging your mouse on the animation. To zoom in, hover over the animation and use your scroll wheel.
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Popular Animations

Every animation has its own page: 360 Spin, Explode, Glitch, Horiz. Rotating Cube, Rotating Sphere, Heartbeat, Vertical Wave, Zoom, Content Aware Scale, Pyramid, Top To Bottom Scroll, Five by Five, Front Flip, Swirl, and many more in the example gallery. You can easily make Slack emotes and rotating logos and icons.

Image Converters

Convert between image formats without uploading anything: PNG to JPG, JPG to PNG, WebP to JPG, WebP to PNG, PNG to WebP, JPG to WebP, AVIF to JPG, and PNG to ICO. Each one decodes and re-encodes your image in the browser.

PDF Tools

Work with documents in your browser too: JPG to PDF, PDF to JPG, Merge PDF, Split PDF, and Rotate PDF. The PDF tools run entirely in your browser, so the documents never leave your device.
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Check out our other project, it's a celebrity death year guessing game: When They Died
Thank you Barney some of our shaders, check out his youtube channel Barney Codes.
Shout out to Ted Davis for his glitch library:  (https://p5.glitch.me License)