STEP 5 — GIMP
(a) Open GIMP.
(b) Open the downloaded .Gif file that we created on Midjourney
(c) As a rule of Thump - NEVER touch the first frame. You CAN crop the file by DELETING the end frames, but another way of doing it is to simply DELETE even, or odd frames.

In the below image of GIMP you will see there are a total of 125 Frames. So you could (i) delete 25-50 Frames or (ii) (What I prefer to do) delete odd frames (layers), like 5,7,9,11,13,15 etc etc. Or you could delete frames (layers) at the end of the gif (shortening the gif) Note that you have to be careful not to "Break" the animation, so always test the animation after you have made changes to ensure its not "Broken" I purposely never touch the starting frames, and I purposely make small edits first.




Now, back to STEP 4 — EzGif, Upload, Make .AVIF, reduce the Output Image Quality until such time as it meets D2JSP's allowed file size. If it won't reduce enough, you need to go back to the drawing board.



This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 21 2026 10:39am

STEP 6 — Catbox. Catbox is used to upload and host your final animation. It gives you a direct link you can use elsewhere. (there are various sites like this).
So in our case we get a link: https://files.catbox.moe/fdb850.avif(this is our animation).

STEP 7 — Universal Sig Rotator. Get an account, its Free. Here we take the above .avif link and insert it into a blank line for URL's



Finally, we update our D2JSP signature with the Universal Sig Rotator Link



You now have an animated Signature, with way more then 4 frames. Enjoy.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 21 2026 10:48am

Thank you.

They are in my signature but here are 2 more examples of what can be done with this method:

https://files.catbox.moe/hqtoro.avif (Black and White animation, girl surfing)
https://files.catbox.moe/n0ifsc.avif (Everyone loves a Pikachu animation)

And again, you would simply follow the steps then use the Universal Sig Rotator site to upload the animation you created (obviously, don't use mine).

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 21 2026 10:57am

I do alot of this and my sigs still turn out poopy 🤣

sometimes no matter what you do, you cant get the file down small enough for JSP. here is an example of a tiger approaching. I cant get it below 300kb ~

https://file.garden/aegIlL1aKQol7axr/tiger7.avif

I had cropped the animation by 50% and then i removed dozens upon dozens of frames, and yet still, no joy. some animations are simply too big. One option here would be to try to do the same animation but in monochrome.

the original: https://cdn.midjourney.com/video/2fee385f-b784-4fea-82fb-cfc0fc3be33e/2.mp4

The overarching "trick" here is to use GIMP to reduce the frames all the way down to about 20. otherwise, if your not using .avif, your stuck on 4-5 frames.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 21 2026 05:57pm

If you don’t mind a little quality loss, try tuning the compression down to like 20–30

bless, I forgot to add:



Reducing Quality and Frames worked. credit to Eruptix to remind me that its not just quality, but also frames that can be reduced!

Full credit here:



This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 22 2026 02:43am

adjustments -

1. Download the raw movie file from Midjourney
2. Resize it to JSP's 400x150
3. Then Video to .AVIF, reduce Quality until you meet JSP's file size. (if needed, reduce frame rate).

i.e.

The entire size of your signature shall not exceed 400 pixels wide by 150 pixels high.
Total size of the images contained in your signature shall not exceed 70 kilobytes.

https://file.garden/aegIlL1aKQol7axr/tiger3.avif

and then stick the .avif link into the Sig Rotator URL.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 22 2026 03:37am