(1) What is an animated .gif (what are they used for, how are they made)?

- is a moving picture , it is used for corny uses but you can also use them to promote something , 

             http://greyscalegorillacom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Stripes3.gif

                               

https://media.giphy.com/media/4aBQ9oNjgEQ2k/giphy.gif

http://www.netanimations.net/Moving-picture-fire-sneezing-dragon-animated-gif.gif

http://f.tqn.com/y/graphicssoft/1/0/n/p/5/ST_animated_turkey01.gif

http://www.changethethought.com/wp-content/tumblr_ljm3m8dfun1qzt4vjo1_500.gif

http://bestanimations.com/Animals/Birds/Penguins/Penguin-cartoon-animation.gif

http://www.booooooom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ni-fong-gifs1.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/Lcx1BIYn47hra/giphy.gif

http://cloudyco.com/SCRATCH/SnakeSkull2.1.gif

http://bestanimations.com/Animals/Birds/Penguins/animated-penguin-gif-5.gif

FAMOUS GIFS ARTIST - #1 Rafael Verona 

https://d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net/uploads/2015/03/mathieu.gif

#2 Edward Carvalho - 

https://d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net/uploads/2015/03/edwardcarvalho.gif

#3 Matthew Divito - 

https://d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net/uploads/2015/03/mrdiv.gif