Up until today when you wanted to create an animated GIF from your Sketch design, you had to use all sorts of duct tape solution such as using Keynote or other tools that were not meant specifically for this task. Today we’ll talk about a new Sketch plugin that empowers you to convert your Sketch to GIF.

Whether you’re creating GIFs for your Newsletters, Websites, Facebook Ads, or just for fun, this new plugin will cover it all.

“I started using GIFs in my emails a couple months ago. Staggering response in click rates!” — Meg Cowley

Timeline for Sketch lets you select either an Artboard or a Group, and animate the layers within it. There is no need to create an thousands of artboards for each frame or anything like that. It’s much simpler.

Sample GIF from a newsletter to increase Open-Rate

How To Get Started

In this tutorial we will making this simple GIF:

The first thing you’ll do is create a new Artboard in the size that you want the GIF to be in.