Animated Gifs are mostly a phenomenon of the past and one only comes occasionally upon a website that makes excessive use of them. Those are either websites that have been laid to rest for a very long time by their owner, forums where users post all kinds of images or social community websites like Myspace.
Some make great forum avatars on the other hand. I remember one that showed a bug crawling around that looked so real that I tried to get it off my monitor the first time I saw it.
Anyway, if you are into animated gifs you might like Gickr.com which offers a service to convert Youtube videos into animated gifs. All online with minimal user input. I have created one from videos that I found at Youtube, you see it below.
The user can make a few decisions about the final size and the amount of frames of the animated gif. The size can be 50, 100, 120 and 200 pixels in width and the frames 5, 15, 25 and 45. The conversion takes only a minute or so depending on the video that you want to convert. There is unfortunately no option to select a time period that should be converted.
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Very very cool! Thanks for pointing it out.
Small problem with animated GIFs as avatars or something else is that they are often cut to first frame by ad-blockers or browser settings.
Very few people make first frame meaningful… and rest ends up with stupid looking stuff. :)
By the way even feedburner messed up with that, their animated counter for number of suscribers starts with empty frame.
Awesome.
You guys need to implement social bookmarking buttons like ShareIt or something.
LMAO @ Martin frantically swatting a virtual bug on comp screen with a newspaper!