Wrentits in Glorious Animated WebP

A took a few photos of some Wrentits recently (full gallery here) and noticed that a couple of the bursts would work as animations.

I first edited all the frames identically in Lightroom Classic, then exported to TIFF files (JPG or whatever would work as well).

Next, in Photoshop, use "File" > "Scripts" > "Load Files into Stack..." to load the images as layers. Use "Edit" > "Auto-Align Layers" to align the layers, then crop as desired. Before exporting, use "Image" > "Image Size" to resize. Finally, use "File" > "Export" > "Layers to Files..." to save the layers as separate JPG files.

I already had Image Magick installed on my Mac (thanks to homebrew), so creating a WebP format animation was as easy as running this terminal command:

$ magick -delay 40 -loop 0 /.../path/to/input-images*.jpg /.../path/to/output.webp

It takes a few moments, but Image Magick writes a surprisingly small (lossy) animated .webp file.

Here's another one: