Sections of the GIF are disappearing

[pixelmatix]

Sections of the GIF are disappearing

[embedded-creations]

There’s probably some bugs in the library that need to get tracked down and fixed, but in the meantime to try and get your gif working, go to Ezgif.com and run it through something that doesn’t significantly change the Gif but reencodes it

[Mad182]

The GIF is optimized for smaller file size by making some unchanged sections of consecutive frames transparent.

You can see this if you split the GIF to frames without redrawing them.

You can use https://ezgif.com/optimize with optimization method Coalesce (unoptimize) as a workaround. Or run ImageMagick's convert command with -coalesce option in command line.

[Bryce-Toma]

@Mad182 and @embedded-creations,
Thanks guys for your prompt replies! Those are some great ideas! Since I made the GIF in a separate program, I didn't even consider running it through ezgif.com. It's strange that the program that I was using optimized it though to make the file smaller by removing unchanged animations. Thank you, I didn't know "coalesce" was a workaround. And your solution fixed my problem! :D

[Bryce-Toma]

I ran the GIF through ezgif.com and applied "coalesce" as suggested by Mad182, and it did fix the portions of the frames that were not previously displaying. However, now some colors are being inverted for a very brief second or between transitional frames.

Blue -> Yellow. Yellow -> Blue. Orange -> Green, etc.

Attached is a link to a video of what I'm experiencing.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12rJEzxaQoCuA9VdgSyawxCRWsy70d3le/view?usp=sharing

[embedded-creations]

Try some other modes, not necessarily coalesce. I've noticed that not all modes in ezgif work properly with the AnimatedGIFs sketch.

Do the inverted colors show up when viewing the GIF on your computer?

[Bryce-Toma]

I'll do some experimenting! Thanks, for your observation and suggestion!
No, the inverted colors do not show up when viewing the GIF on my computer.
By running the GIF through the splitter via ezgif.com, I wasn't able to locate the color inversion either.

[Bryce-Toma]

I was able to fix the issues, by applying two optimizations to the GIF:

1. coalesce (to unoptimize the image and fix portion display)
2. single color table (fix color inversion)
   The GIF now runs perfectly! Thank you, both, for your help! :)