This is an example of an animated gif.

I always thought the Saturday Night Live coverage of the Patty Hearst trial using an excerpt of a Betty Boop cartoon taking place in a courtroom and labelled artist rendering was hilarious. In the early days of webcams I noticed they all showed basically the same thing. I told people I could not afford a webcam, but had an artist’s rendering.

Animated gifs unlike flash tend to work with smartphones. However, the total file size does need to be kept small, along with number of frames of animation. They are most effective on effect like small flames in sconses, and alternating wording on :flashing” ads.