Last May or June I went on a sick tear animating GIFs, and even isolating pieces of those GIFs so that only certain parts of an image would animate. However, turns out I forgot everything I figured out less than 10 months ago, so I decided to retrace my steps and make a short screencast tutorial this time to remember some of the baics. Scott Lockman just did an awesome animated GIF of the M*A*S*H ATari 2600 cover, and I would love to hear how his experience matches up with this, but in the mean time here is quick and dirty tutorial which is really just my way of slowly building up enough courage to take on the animated comic book cover assignment.