Export PNG / JPG / WebP Sequences as a ZIP

GIF transparency is a single bit per pixel: fully opaque or fully invisible, nothing between. Any soft edge — antialiased text, a feathered mask, a drop shadow — turns into a hard jagged boundary, usually with a halo of whatever background colour was assumed at encode time.

PNG and WebP store eight bits of alpha. Export a sequence and the edges composite cleanly over any background in whatever tool you take them into. This is the reason to reach for a frame sequence rather than a GIF whenever the animation is going to be layered onto something else.

After Effects and Premiere: unzip to its own folder, then import the first file with "image sequence" ticked. Blender: use the Image Sequence node or add it as a movie clip — it reads numbered files directly. Most sprite packers and web animation libraries take the folder as-is.

The one thing that reliably breaks these importers is inconsistent naming or a gap in the numbering. Both are why the padding and the sequential numbering are not configurable down to something that would produce them.