PixiJS GIFs — guide skill for images & thumbnails

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Load, play and control animated GIFs inside a PixiJS v8 scene.

• Type: Guide · Images & thumbnails
• Slug: pixijs-gif
• Status: live
• Publisher: PixiJS (vendor, verified)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills/tree/main/skills/pixijs-scene-gif
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
• Requires: PixiJS v8
• Cost: Free — open-source library (MIT)
• Adoption: 5,600 installs, 358 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

What it does

Displays animated GIFs in PixiJS v8 through the pixi.js/gif import, loading a GifSource and playing it with GifSprite. It covers playback control, autoplay and looping, frame callbacks, manual update mode, sharing source data between sprites and releasing memory on destroy.

Use when

• Playing an animated GIF in a canvas scene
• Syncing GIF frames to other animation

Install

• Claude Code: npx skills add https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills --skill pixijs-scene-gif -a claude-code
• Codex: npx skills add https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills --skill pixijs-scene-gif -a codex
• Cursor: npx skills add https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills --skill pixijs-scene-gif -a cursor
• Gemini CLI: npx skills add https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs-skills --skill pixijs-scene-gif -a gemini-cli

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/pixijs-gif.mp4 — Official 'GIF animation loading' example preview: an animated GIF loaded and played as a sprite in a PixiJS scene (converted from https://pixijs.com/examples/previews/sprite_gif_animation_loading.webp, 320x180, looped 3x) (credit: PixiJS (pixijs.com examples), https://pixijs.com/8.x/examples?example=sprite_gif_animation_loading)

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