diff --git a/interface/src/Application.cpp b/interface/src/Application.cpp
index 089983d8ca..a7140403ca 100644
--- a/interface/src/Application.cpp
+++ b/interface/src/Application.cpp
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@
 #include "ui/AddressBarDialog.h"
 #include "ui/AvatarInputs.h"
 #include "ui/DialogsManager.h"
+#include "ui/Gif.h"
 #include "ui/LoginDialog.h"
 #include "ui/overlays/Cube3DOverlay.h"
 #include "ui/Snapshot.h"
@@ -2511,7 +2512,7 @@ void Application::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent* event) {
                 } else if (isOption && !isShifted && !isMeta) {
                     Menu::getInstance()->triggerOption(MenuOption::ScriptEditor);
                 } else if (!isOption && !isShifted && isMeta) {
-                    takeSnapshot(true);
+                    takeSnapshot(true, "still");
                 }
                 break;
 
@@ -5428,14 +5429,43 @@ void Application::toggleLogDialog() {
     }
 }
 
-void Application::takeSnapshot(bool notify, float aspectRatio) {
-    postLambdaEvent([notify, aspectRatio, this] {
+void Application::takeSnapshot(bool notify, const QString& format, float aspectRatio) {
+    postLambdaEvent([notify, format, aspectRatio, this] {
         QMediaPlayer* player = new QMediaPlayer();
         QFileInfo inf = QFileInfo(PathUtils::resourcesPath() + "sounds/snap.wav");
         player->setMedia(QUrl::fromLocalFile(inf.absoluteFilePath()));
         player->play();
 
-        QString path = Snapshot::saveSnapshot(getActiveDisplayPlugin()->getScreenshot(aspectRatio));
+        //QString path = Snapshot::saveSnapshot(getActiveDisplayPlugin()->getScreenshot(aspectRatio));
+
+        //if (!format.compare("animated"))
+        //{
+            QImage frame;
+            GifWriter myGifWriter;
+            char* cstr;
+
+            QString path = QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::DesktopLocation);
+            path.append(QDir::separator());
+            path.append("test.gif");
+
+            string fname = path.toStdString();
+            cstr = new char[fname.size() + 1];
+            strcpy(cstr, fname.c_str());
+
+            GifBegin(&myGifWriter, cstr, 1, 1, 0);
+
+            uint8_t test[4] = { 0xFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 };
+
+            for (uint8_t itr = 0; itr < 30; itr++)
+            {
+                test[0] = 0xFF / (itr + 1);
+                //frame = (getActiveDisplayPlugin()->getScreenshot(aspectRatio)).scaledToWidth(500);
+
+                GifWriteFrame(&myGifWriter, test, 1, 1, 0);
+            }
+
+            GifEnd(&myGifWriter);
+        //}
 
         emit DependencyManager::get<WindowScriptingInterface>()->snapshotTaken(path, notify);
     });
diff --git a/interface/src/Application.h b/interface/src/Application.h
index 4c98be9c2d..d1150fb30f 100644
--- a/interface/src/Application.h
+++ b/interface/src/Application.h
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ public:
     float getAvatarSimrate() const { return _avatarSimCounter.rate(); }
     float getAverageSimsPerSecond() const { return _simCounter.rate(); }
     
-    void takeSnapshot(bool notify, float aspectRatio = 0.0f);
+    void takeSnapshot(bool notify, const QString& format = "still", float aspectRatio = 0.0f);
     void shareSnapshot(const QString& filename);
 
     model::SkyboxPointer getDefaultSkybox() const { return _defaultSkybox; }
diff --git a/interface/src/scripting/WindowScriptingInterface.cpp b/interface/src/scripting/WindowScriptingInterface.cpp
index 0f9dd698fd..0abdddf0d8 100644
--- a/interface/src/scripting/WindowScriptingInterface.cpp
+++ b/interface/src/scripting/WindowScriptingInterface.cpp
@@ -199,8 +199,12 @@ void WindowScriptingInterface::copyToClipboard(const QString& text) {
     QApplication::clipboard()->setText(text);
 }
 
-void WindowScriptingInterface::takeSnapshot(bool notify, float aspectRatio) {
-    qApp->takeSnapshot(notify, aspectRatio);
+void WindowScriptingInterface::takeSnapshotStill(bool notify, float aspectRatio) {
+    qApp->takeSnapshot(notify, "still", aspectRatio);
+}
+
+void WindowScriptingInterface::takeSnapshotAnimated(bool notify, float aspectRatio) {
+    qApp->takeSnapshot(notify, "animated", aspectRatio);
 }
 
 void WindowScriptingInterface::shareSnapshot(const QString& path) {
diff --git a/interface/src/scripting/WindowScriptingInterface.h b/interface/src/scripting/WindowScriptingInterface.h
index f4a89ae221..6c06b4d60e 100644
--- a/interface/src/scripting/WindowScriptingInterface.h
+++ b/interface/src/scripting/WindowScriptingInterface.h
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ public slots:
     QScriptValue save(const QString& title = "", const QString& directory = "",  const QString& nameFilter = "");
     void showAssetServer(const QString& upload = "");
     void copyToClipboard(const QString& text);
-    void takeSnapshot(bool notify = true, float aspectRatio = 0.0f);
+    void takeSnapshotStill(bool notify = true, float aspectRatio = 0.0f);
+    void takeSnapshotAnimated(bool notify = true, float aspectRatio = 0.0f);
     void shareSnapshot(const QString& path);
     bool isPhysicsEnabled();
 
diff --git a/interface/src/ui/Gif.h b/interface/src/ui/Gif.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..83f094aee8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/interface/src/ui/Gif.h
@@ -0,0 +1,825 @@
+//
+// gif.h
+// by Charlie Tangora
+// Public domain.
+// Email me : ctangora -at- gmail -dot- com
+//
+// This file offers a simple, very limited way to create animated GIFs directly in code.
+//
+// Those looking for particular cleverness are likely to be disappointed; it's pretty 
+// much a straight-ahead implementation of the GIF format with optional Floyd-Steinberg 
+// dithering. (It does at least use delta encoding - only the changed portions of each 
+// frame are saved.) 
+//
+// So resulting files are often quite large. The hope is that it will be handy nonetheless
+// as a quick and easily-integrated way for programs to spit out animations.
+//
+// Only RGBA8 is currently supported as an input format. (The alpha is ignored.)
+//
+// USAGE:
+// Create a GifWriter struct. Pass it to GifBegin() to initialize and write the header.
+// Pass subsequent frames to GifWriteFrame().
+// Finally, call GifEnd() to close the file handle and free memory.
+//
+
+#ifndef gif_h
+#define gif_h
+
+#include <stdio.h>   // for FILE*
+#include <string.h>  // for memcpy and bzero
+#include <stdint.h>  // for integer typedefs
+
+// Define these macros to hook into a custom memory allocator.
+// TEMP_MALLOC and TEMP_FREE will only be called in stack fashion - frees in the reverse order of mallocs
+// and any temp memory allocated by a function will be freed before it exits.
+// MALLOC and FREE are used only by GifBegin and GifEnd respectively (to allocate a buffer the size of the image, which
+// is used to find changed pixels for delta-encoding.)
+
+#ifndef GIF_TEMP_MALLOC
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#define GIF_TEMP_MALLOC malloc
+#endif
+
+#ifndef GIF_TEMP_FREE
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#define GIF_TEMP_FREE free
+#endif
+
+#ifndef GIF_MALLOC
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#define GIF_MALLOC malloc
+#endif
+
+#ifndef GIF_FREE
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#define GIF_FREE free
+#endif
+
+const int kGifTransIndex = 0;
+
+struct GifPalette
+{
+    uint8_t bitDepth;
+
+    uint8_t r[256];
+    uint8_t g[256];
+    uint8_t b[256];
+
+    // k-d tree over RGB space, organized in heap fashion
+    // i.e. left child of node i is node i*2, right child is node i*2+1
+    // nodes 256-511 are implicitly the leaves, containing a color
+    uint8_t treeSplitElt[255];
+    uint8_t treeSplit[255];
+};
+
+// max, min, and abs functions
+int GifIMax(int l, int r) { return l>r ? l : r; }
+int GifIMin(int l, int r) { return l<r ? l : r; }
+int GifIAbs(int i) { return i<0 ? -i : i; }
+
+// walks the k-d tree to pick the palette entry for a desired color.
+// Takes as in/out parameters the current best color and its error -
+// only changes them if it finds a better color in its subtree.
+// this is the major hotspot in the code at the moment.
+void GifGetClosestPaletteColor(GifPalette* pPal, int r, int g, int b, int& bestInd, int& bestDiff, int treeRoot = 1)
+{
+    // base case, reached the bottom of the tree
+    if (treeRoot >(1 << pPal->bitDepth) - 1)
+    {
+        int ind = treeRoot - (1 << pPal->bitDepth);
+        if (ind == kGifTransIndex) return;
+
+        // check whether this color is better than the current winner
+        int r_err = r - ((int32_t)pPal->r[ind]);
+        int g_err = g - ((int32_t)pPal->g[ind]);
+        int b_err = b - ((int32_t)pPal->b[ind]);
+        int diff = GifIAbs(r_err) + GifIAbs(g_err) + GifIAbs(b_err);
+
+        if (diff < bestDiff)
+        {
+            bestInd = ind;
+            bestDiff = diff;
+        }
+
+        return;
+    }
+
+    // take the appropriate color (r, g, or b) for this node of the k-d tree
+    int comps[3]; comps[0] = r; comps[1] = g; comps[2] = b;
+    int splitComp = comps[pPal->treeSplitElt[treeRoot]];
+
+    int splitPos = pPal->treeSplit[treeRoot];
+    if (splitPos > splitComp)
+    {
+        // check the left subtree
+        GifGetClosestPaletteColor(pPal, r, g, b, bestInd, bestDiff, treeRoot * 2);
+        if (bestDiff > splitPos - splitComp)
+        {
+            // cannot prove there's not a better value in the right subtree, check that too
+            GifGetClosestPaletteColor(pPal, r, g, b, bestInd, bestDiff, treeRoot * 2 + 1);
+        }
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        GifGetClosestPaletteColor(pPal, r, g, b, bestInd, bestDiff, treeRoot * 2 + 1);
+        if (bestDiff > splitComp - splitPos)
+        {
+            GifGetClosestPaletteColor(pPal, r, g, b, bestInd, bestDiff, treeRoot * 2);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+void GifSwapPixels(uint8_t* image, int pixA, int pixB)
+{
+    uint8_t rA = image[pixA * 4];
+    uint8_t gA = image[pixA * 4 + 1];
+    uint8_t bA = image[pixA * 4 + 2];
+    uint8_t aA = image[pixA * 4 + 3];
+
+    uint8_t rB = image[pixB * 4];
+    uint8_t gB = image[pixB * 4 + 1];
+    uint8_t bB = image[pixB * 4 + 2];
+    uint8_t aB = image[pixA * 4 + 3];
+
+    image[pixA * 4] = rB;
+    image[pixA * 4 + 1] = gB;
+    image[pixA * 4 + 2] = bB;
+    image[pixA * 4 + 3] = aB;
+
+    image[pixB * 4] = rA;
+    image[pixB * 4 + 1] = gA;
+    image[pixB * 4 + 2] = bA;
+    image[pixB * 4 + 3] = aA;
+}
+
+// just the partition operation from quicksort
+int GifPartition(uint8_t* image, const int left, const int right, const int elt, int pivotIndex)
+{
+    const int pivotValue = image[(pivotIndex)* 4 + elt];
+    GifSwapPixels(image, pivotIndex, right - 1);
+    int storeIndex = left;
+    bool split = 0;
+    for (int ii = left; ii<right - 1; ++ii)
+    {
+        int arrayVal = image[ii * 4 + elt];
+        if (arrayVal < pivotValue)
+        {
+            GifSwapPixels(image, ii, storeIndex);
+            ++storeIndex;
+        }
+        else if (arrayVal == pivotValue)
+        {
+            if (split)
+            {
+                GifSwapPixels(image, ii, storeIndex);
+                ++storeIndex;
+            }
+            split = !split;
+        }
+    }
+    GifSwapPixels(image, storeIndex, right - 1);
+    return storeIndex;
+}
+
+// Perform an incomplete sort, finding all elements above and below the desired median
+void GifPartitionByMedian(uint8_t* image, int left, int right, int com, int neededCenter)
+{
+    if (left < right - 1)
+    {
+        int pivotIndex = left + (right - left) / 2;
+
+        pivotIndex = GifPartition(image, left, right, com, pivotIndex);
+
+        // Only "sort" the section of the array that contains the median
+        if (pivotIndex > neededCenter)
+            GifPartitionByMedian(image, left, pivotIndex, com, neededCenter);
+
+        if (pivotIndex < neededCenter)
+            GifPartitionByMedian(image, pivotIndex + 1, right, com, neededCenter);
+    }
+}
+
+// Builds a palette by creating a balanced k-d tree of all pixels in the image
+void GifSplitPalette(uint8_t* image, int numPixels, int firstElt, int lastElt, int splitElt, int splitDist, int treeNode, bool buildForDither, GifPalette* pal)
+{
+    if (lastElt <= firstElt || numPixels == 0)
+        return;
+
+    // base case, bottom of the tree
+    if (lastElt == firstElt + 1)
+    {
+        if (buildForDither)
+        {
+            // Dithering needs at least one color as dark as anything
+            // in the image and at least one brightest color -
+            // otherwise it builds up error and produces strange artifacts
+            if (firstElt == 1)
+            {
+                // special case: the darkest color in the image
+                uint32_t r = 255, g = 255, b = 255;
+                for (int ii = 0; ii<numPixels; ++ii)
+                {
+                    r = GifIMin(r, image[ii * 4 + 0]);
+                    g = GifIMin(g, image[ii * 4 + 1]);
+                    b = GifIMin(b, image[ii * 4 + 2]);
+                }
+
+                pal->r[firstElt] = r;
+                pal->g[firstElt] = g;
+                pal->b[firstElt] = b;
+
+                return;
+            }
+
+            if (firstElt == (1 << pal->bitDepth) - 1)
+            {
+                // special case: the lightest color in the image
+                uint32_t r = 0, g = 0, b = 0;
+                for (int ii = 0; ii<numPixels; ++ii)
+                {
+                    r = GifIMax(r, image[ii * 4 + 0]);
+                    g = GifIMax(g, image[ii * 4 + 1]);
+                    b = GifIMax(b, image[ii * 4 + 2]);
+                }
+
+                pal->r[firstElt] = r;
+                pal->g[firstElt] = g;
+                pal->b[firstElt] = b;
+
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // otherwise, take the average of all colors in this subcube
+        uint64_t r = 0, g = 0, b = 0;
+        for (int ii = 0; ii<numPixels; ++ii)
+        {
+            r += image[ii * 4 + 0];
+            g += image[ii * 4 + 1];
+            b += image[ii * 4 + 2];
+        }
+
+        r += numPixels / 2;  // round to nearest
+        g += numPixels / 2;
+        b += numPixels / 2;
+
+        r /= numPixels;
+        g /= numPixels;
+        b /= numPixels;
+
+        pal->r[firstElt] = (uint8_t)r;
+        pal->g[firstElt] = (uint8_t)g;
+        pal->b[firstElt] = (uint8_t)b;
+
+        return;
+    }
+
+    // Find the axis with the largest range
+    int minR = 255, maxR = 0;
+    int minG = 255, maxG = 0;
+    int minB = 255, maxB = 0;
+    for (int ii = 0; ii<numPixels; ++ii)
+    {
+        int r = image[ii * 4 + 0];
+        int g = image[ii * 4 + 1];
+        int b = image[ii * 4 + 2];
+
+        if (r > maxR) maxR = r;
+        if (r < minR) minR = r;
+
+        if (g > maxG) maxG = g;
+        if (g < minG) minG = g;
+
+        if (b > maxB) maxB = b;
+        if (b < minB) minB = b;
+    }
+
+    int rRange = maxR - minR;
+    int gRange = maxG - minG;
+    int bRange = maxB - minB;
+
+    // and split along that axis. (incidentally, this means this isn't a "proper" k-d tree but I don't know what else to call it)
+    int splitCom = 1;
+    if (bRange > gRange) splitCom = 2;
+    if (rRange > bRange && rRange > gRange) splitCom = 0;
+
+    int subPixelsA = numPixels * (splitElt - firstElt) / (lastElt - firstElt);
+    int subPixelsB = numPixels - subPixelsA;
+
+    GifPartitionByMedian(image, 0, numPixels, splitCom, subPixelsA);
+
+    pal->treeSplitElt[treeNode] = splitCom;
+    pal->treeSplit[treeNode] = image[subPixelsA * 4 + splitCom];
+
+    GifSplitPalette(image, subPixelsA, firstElt, splitElt, splitElt - splitDist, splitDist / 2, treeNode * 2, buildForDither, pal);
+    GifSplitPalette(image + subPixelsA * 4, subPixelsB, splitElt, lastElt, splitElt + splitDist, splitDist / 2, treeNode * 2 + 1, buildForDither, pal);
+}
+
+// Finds all pixels that have changed from the previous image and
+// moves them to the fromt of th buffer.
+// This allows us to build a palette optimized for the colors of the
+// changed pixels only.
+int GifPickChangedPixels(const uint8_t* lastFrame, uint8_t* frame, int numPixels)
+{
+    int numChanged = 0;
+    uint8_t* writeIter = frame;
+
+    for (int ii = 0; ii<numPixels; ++ii)
+    {
+        if (lastFrame[0] != frame[0] ||
+            lastFrame[1] != frame[1] ||
+            lastFrame[2] != frame[2])
+        {
+            writeIter[0] = frame[0];
+            writeIter[1] = frame[1];
+            writeIter[2] = frame[2];
+            ++numChanged;
+            writeIter += 4;
+        }
+        lastFrame += 4;
+        frame += 4;
+    }
+
+    return numChanged;
+}
+
+// Creates a palette by placing all the image pixels in a k-d tree and then averaging the blocks at the bottom.
+// This is known as the "modified median split" technique
+void GifMakePalette(const uint8_t* lastFrame, const uint8_t* nextFrame, uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint8_t bitDepth, bool buildForDither, GifPalette* pPal)
+{
+    pPal->bitDepth = bitDepth;
+
+    // SplitPalette is destructive (it sorts the pixels by color) so
+    // we must create a copy of the image for it to destroy
+    int imageSize = width*height * 4 * sizeof(uint8_t);
+    uint8_t* destroyableImage = (uint8_t*)GIF_TEMP_MALLOC(imageSize);
+    memcpy(destroyableImage, nextFrame, imageSize);
+
+    int numPixels = width*height;
+    if (lastFrame)
+        numPixels = GifPickChangedPixels(lastFrame, destroyableImage, numPixels);
+
+    const int lastElt = 1 << bitDepth;
+    const int splitElt = lastElt / 2;
+    const int splitDist = splitElt / 2;
+
+    GifSplitPalette(destroyableImage, numPixels, 1, lastElt, splitElt, splitDist, 1, buildForDither, pPal);
+
+    GIF_TEMP_FREE(destroyableImage);
+
+    // add the bottom node for the transparency index
+    pPal->treeSplit[1 << (bitDepth - 1)] = 0;
+    pPal->treeSplitElt[1 << (bitDepth - 1)] = 0;
+
+    pPal->r[0] = pPal->g[0] = pPal->b[0] = 0;
+}
+
+// Implements Floyd-Steinberg dithering, writes palette value to alpha
+void GifDitherImage(const uint8_t* lastFrame, const uint8_t* nextFrame, uint8_t* outFrame, uint32_t width, uint32_t height, GifPalette* pPal)
+{
+    int numPixels = width*height;
+
+    // quantPixels initially holds color*256 for all pixels
+    // The extra 8 bits of precision allow for sub-single-color error values
+    // to be propagated
+    int32_t* quantPixels = (int32_t*)GIF_TEMP_MALLOC(sizeof(int32_t)*numPixels * 4);
+
+    for (int ii = 0; ii<numPixels * 4; ++ii)
+    {
+        uint8_t pix = nextFrame[ii];
+        int32_t pix16 = int32_t(pix) * 256;
+        quantPixels[ii] = pix16;
+    }
+
+    for (uint32_t yy = 0; yy<height; ++yy)
+    {
+        for (uint32_t xx = 0; xx<width; ++xx)
+        {
+            int32_t* nextPix = quantPixels + 4 * (yy*width + xx);
+            const uint8_t* lastPix = lastFrame ? lastFrame + 4 * (yy*width + xx) : NULL;
+
+            // Compute the colors we want (rounding to nearest)
+            int32_t rr = (nextPix[0] + 127) / 256;
+            int32_t gg = (nextPix[1] + 127) / 256;
+            int32_t bb = (nextPix[2] + 127) / 256;
+
+            // if it happens that we want the color from last frame, then just write out
+            // a transparent pixel
+            if (lastFrame &&
+                lastPix[0] == rr &&
+                lastPix[1] == gg &&
+                lastPix[2] == bb)
+            {
+                nextPix[0] = rr;
+                nextPix[1] = gg;
+                nextPix[2] = bb;
+                nextPix[3] = kGifTransIndex;
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            int32_t bestDiff = 1000000;
+            int32_t bestInd = kGifTransIndex;
+
+            // Search the palete
+            GifGetClosestPaletteColor(pPal, rr, gg, bb, bestInd, bestDiff);
+
+            // Write the result to the temp buffer
+            int32_t r_err = nextPix[0] - int32_t(pPal->r[bestInd]) * 256;
+            int32_t g_err = nextPix[1] - int32_t(pPal->g[bestInd]) * 256;
+            int32_t b_err = nextPix[2] - int32_t(pPal->b[bestInd]) * 256;
+
+            nextPix[0] = pPal->r[bestInd];
+            nextPix[1] = pPal->g[bestInd];
+            nextPix[2] = pPal->b[bestInd];
+            nextPix[3] = bestInd;
+
+            // Propagate the error to the four adjacent locations
+            // that we haven't touched yet
+            int quantloc_7 = (yy*width + xx + 1);
+            int quantloc_3 = (yy*width + width + xx - 1);
+            int quantloc_5 = (yy*width + width + xx);
+            int quantloc_1 = (yy*width + width + xx + 1);
+
+            if (quantloc_7 < numPixels)
+            {
+                int32_t* pix7 = quantPixels + 4 * quantloc_7;
+                pix7[0] += GifIMax(-pix7[0], r_err * 7 / 16);
+                pix7[1] += GifIMax(-pix7[1], g_err * 7 / 16);
+                pix7[2] += GifIMax(-pix7[2], b_err * 7 / 16);
+            }
+
+            if (quantloc_3 < numPixels)
+            {
+                int32_t* pix3 = quantPixels + 4 * quantloc_3;
+                pix3[0] += GifIMax(-pix3[0], r_err * 3 / 16);
+                pix3[1] += GifIMax(-pix3[1], g_err * 3 / 16);
+                pix3[2] += GifIMax(-pix3[2], b_err * 3 / 16);
+            }
+
+            if (quantloc_5 < numPixels)
+            {
+                int32_t* pix5 = quantPixels + 4 * quantloc_5;
+                pix5[0] += GifIMax(-pix5[0], r_err * 5 / 16);
+                pix5[1] += GifIMax(-pix5[1], g_err * 5 / 16);
+                pix5[2] += GifIMax(-pix5[2], b_err * 5 / 16);
+            }
+
+            if (quantloc_1 < numPixels)
+            {
+                int32_t* pix1 = quantPixels + 4 * quantloc_1;
+                pix1[0] += GifIMax(-pix1[0], r_err / 16);
+                pix1[1] += GifIMax(-pix1[1], g_err / 16);
+                pix1[2] += GifIMax(-pix1[2], b_err / 16);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Copy the palettized result to the output buffer
+    for (int ii = 0; ii<numPixels * 4; ++ii)
+    {
+        outFrame[ii] = quantPixels[ii];
+    }
+
+    GIF_TEMP_FREE(quantPixels);
+}
+
+// Picks palette colors for the image using simple thresholding, no dithering
+void GifThresholdImage(const uint8_t* lastFrame, const uint8_t* nextFrame, uint8_t* outFrame, uint32_t width, uint32_t height, GifPalette* pPal)
+{
+    uint32_t numPixels = width*height;
+    for (uint32_t ii = 0; ii<numPixels; ++ii)
+    {
+        // if a previous color is available, and it matches the current color,
+        // set the pixel to transparent
+        if (lastFrame &&
+            lastFrame[0] == nextFrame[0] &&
+            lastFrame[1] == nextFrame[1] &&
+            lastFrame[2] == nextFrame[2])
+        {
+            outFrame[0] = lastFrame[0];
+            outFrame[1] = lastFrame[1];
+            outFrame[2] = lastFrame[2];
+            outFrame[3] = kGifTransIndex;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // palettize the pixel
+            int32_t bestDiff = 1000000;
+            int32_t bestInd = 1;
+            GifGetClosestPaletteColor(pPal, nextFrame[0], nextFrame[1], nextFrame[2], bestInd, bestDiff);
+
+            // Write the resulting color to the output buffer
+            outFrame[0] = pPal->r[bestInd];
+            outFrame[1] = pPal->g[bestInd];
+            outFrame[2] = pPal->b[bestInd];
+            outFrame[3] = bestInd;
+        }
+
+        if (lastFrame) lastFrame += 4;
+        outFrame += 4;
+        nextFrame += 4;
+    }
+}
+
+// Simple structure to write out the LZW-compressed portion of the image
+// one bit at a time
+struct GifBitStatus
+{
+    uint8_t bitIndex;  // how many bits in the partial byte written so far
+    uint8_t byte;      // current partial byte
+
+    uint32_t chunkIndex;
+    uint8_t chunk[256];   // bytes are written in here until we have 256 of them, then written to the file
+};
+
+// insert a single bit
+void GifWriteBit(GifBitStatus& stat, uint32_t bit)
+{
+    bit = bit & 1;
+    bit = bit << stat.bitIndex;
+    stat.byte |= bit;
+
+    ++stat.bitIndex;
+    if (stat.bitIndex > 7)
+    {
+        // move the newly-finished byte to the chunk buffer 
+        stat.chunk[stat.chunkIndex++] = stat.byte;
+        // and start a new byte
+        stat.bitIndex = 0;
+        stat.byte = 0;
+    }
+}
+
+// write all bytes so far to the file
+void GifWriteChunk(FILE* f, GifBitStatus& stat)
+{
+    fputc(stat.chunkIndex, f);
+    fwrite(stat.chunk, 1, stat.chunkIndex, f);
+
+    stat.bitIndex = 0;
+    stat.byte = 0;
+    stat.chunkIndex = 0;
+}
+
+void GifWriteCode(FILE* f, GifBitStatus& stat, uint32_t code, uint32_t length)
+{
+    for (uint32_t ii = 0; ii<length; ++ii)
+    {
+        GifWriteBit(stat, code);
+        code = code >> 1;
+
+        if (stat.chunkIndex == 255)
+        {
+            GifWriteChunk(f, stat);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// The LZW dictionary is a 256-ary tree constructed as the file is encoded,
+// this is one node
+struct GifLzwNode
+{
+    uint16_t m_next[256];
+};
+
+// write a 256-color (8-bit) image palette to the file
+void GifWritePalette(const GifPalette* pPal, FILE* f)
+{
+    fputc(0, f);  // first color: transparency
+    fputc(0, f);
+    fputc(0, f);
+
+    for (int ii = 1; ii<(1 << pPal->bitDepth); ++ii)
+    {
+        uint32_t r = pPal->r[ii];
+        uint32_t g = pPal->g[ii];
+        uint32_t b = pPal->b[ii];
+
+        fputc(r, f);
+        fputc(g, f);
+        fputc(b, f);
+    }
+}
+
+// write the image header, LZW-compress and write out the image
+void GifWriteLzwImage(FILE* f, uint8_t* image, uint32_t left, uint32_t top, uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint32_t delay, GifPalette* pPal)
+{
+    // graphics control extension
+    fputc(0x21, f);
+    fputc(0xf9, f);
+    fputc(0x04, f);
+    fputc(0x05, f); // leave prev frame in place, this frame has transparency
+    fputc(delay & 0xff, f);
+    fputc((delay >> 8) & 0xff, f);
+    fputc(kGifTransIndex, f); // transparent color index
+    fputc(0, f);
+
+    fputc(0x2c, f); // image descriptor block
+
+    fputc(left & 0xff, f);           // corner of image in canvas space
+    fputc((left >> 8) & 0xff, f);
+    fputc(top & 0xff, f);
+    fputc((top >> 8) & 0xff, f);
+
+    fputc(width & 0xff, f);          // width and height of image
+    fputc((width >> 8) & 0xff, f);
+    fputc(height & 0xff, f);
+    fputc((height >> 8) & 0xff, f);
+
+    //fputc(0, f); // no local color table, no transparency
+    //fputc(0x80, f); // no local color table, but transparency
+
+    fputc(0x80 + pPal->bitDepth - 1, f); // local color table present, 2 ^ bitDepth entries
+    GifWritePalette(pPal, f);
+
+    const int minCodeSize = pPal->bitDepth;
+    const uint32_t clearCode = 1 << pPal->bitDepth;
+
+    fputc(minCodeSize, f); // min code size 8 bits
+
+    GifLzwNode* codetree = (GifLzwNode*)GIF_TEMP_MALLOC(sizeof(GifLzwNode) * 4096);
+
+    memset(codetree, 0, sizeof(GifLzwNode) * 4096);
+    int32_t curCode = -1;
+    uint32_t codeSize = minCodeSize + 1;
+    uint32_t maxCode = clearCode + 1;
+
+    GifBitStatus stat;
+    stat.byte = 0;
+    stat.bitIndex = 0;
+    stat.chunkIndex = 0;
+
+    GifWriteCode(f, stat, clearCode, codeSize);  // start with a fresh LZW dictionary
+
+    for (uint32_t yy = 0; yy<height; ++yy)
+    {
+        for (uint32_t xx = 0; xx<width; ++xx)
+        {
+            uint8_t nextValue = image[(yy*width + xx) * 4 + 3];
+
+            // "loser mode" - no compression, every single code is followed immediately by a clear
+            //WriteCode( f, stat, nextValue, codeSize );
+            //WriteCode( f, stat, 256, codeSize );
+
+            if (curCode < 0)
+            {
+                // first value in a new run
+                curCode = nextValue;
+            }
+            else if (codetree[curCode].m_next[nextValue])
+            {
+                // current run already in the dictionary
+                curCode = codetree[curCode].m_next[nextValue];
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                // finish the current run, write a code
+                GifWriteCode(f, stat, curCode, codeSize);
+
+                // insert the new run into the dictionary
+                codetree[curCode].m_next[nextValue] = ++maxCode;
+
+                if (maxCode >= (1ul << codeSize))
+                {
+                    // dictionary entry count has broken a size barrier,
+                    // we need more bits for codes
+                    codeSize++;
+                }
+                if (maxCode == 4095)
+                {
+                    // the dictionary is full, clear it out and begin anew
+                    GifWriteCode(f, stat, clearCode, codeSize); // clear tree
+
+                    memset(codetree, 0, sizeof(GifLzwNode) * 4096);
+                    curCode = -1;
+                    codeSize = minCodeSize + 1;
+                    maxCode = clearCode + 1;
+                }
+
+                curCode = nextValue;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // compression footer
+    GifWriteCode(f, stat, curCode, codeSize);
+    GifWriteCode(f, stat, clearCode, codeSize);
+    GifWriteCode(f, stat, clearCode + 1, minCodeSize + 1);
+
+    // write out the last partial chunk
+    while (stat.bitIndex) GifWriteBit(stat, 0);
+    if (stat.chunkIndex) GifWriteChunk(f, stat);
+
+    fputc(0, f); // image block terminator
+
+    GIF_TEMP_FREE(codetree);
+}
+
+struct GifWriter
+{
+    FILE* f;
+    uint8_t* oldImage;
+    bool firstFrame;
+};
+
+// Creates a gif file.
+// The input GIFWriter is assumed to be uninitialized.
+// The delay value is the time between frames in hundredths of a second - note that not all viewers pay much attention to this value.
+bool GifBegin(GifWriter* writer, const char* filename, uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint32_t delay, int32_t bitDepth = 8, bool dither = false)
+{
+#if _MSC_VER >= 1400
+    writer->f = 0;
+    fopen_s(&writer->f, filename, "wb");
+#else
+    writer->f = fopen(filename, "wb");
+#endif
+    if (!writer->f) return false;
+
+    writer->firstFrame = true;
+
+    // allocate 
+    writer->oldImage = (uint8_t*)GIF_MALLOC(width*height * 4);
+
+    fputs("GIF89a", writer->f);
+
+    // screen descriptor
+    fputc(width & 0xff, writer->f);
+    fputc((width >> 8) & 0xff, writer->f);
+    fputc(height & 0xff, writer->f);
+    fputc((height >> 8) & 0xff, writer->f);
+
+    fputc(0xf0, writer->f);  // there is an unsorted global color table of 2 entries
+    fputc(0, writer->f);     // background color
+    fputc(0, writer->f);     // pixels are square (we need to specify this because it's 1989)
+
+    // now the "global" palette (really just a dummy palette)
+    // color 0: black
+    fputc(0, writer->f);
+    fputc(0, writer->f);
+    fputc(0, writer->f);
+    // color 1: also black
+    fputc(0, writer->f);
+    fputc(0, writer->f);
+    fputc(0, writer->f);
+
+    if (delay != 0)
+    {
+        // animation header
+        fputc(0x21, writer->f); // extension
+        fputc(0xff, writer->f); // application specific
+        fputc(11, writer->f); // length 11
+        fputs("NETSCAPE2.0", writer->f); // yes, really
+        fputc(3, writer->f); // 3 bytes of NETSCAPE2.0 data
+
+        fputc(1, writer->f); // JUST BECAUSE
+        fputc(0, writer->f); // loop infinitely (byte 0)
+        fputc(0, writer->f); // loop infinitely (byte 1)
+
+        fputc(0, writer->f); // block terminator
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+// Writes out a new frame to a GIF in progress.
+// The GIFWriter should have been created by GIFBegin.
+// AFAIK, it is legal to use different bit depths for different frames of an image -
+// this may be handy to save bits in animations that don't change much.
+bool GifWriteFrame(GifWriter* writer, const uint8_t* image, uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint32_t delay, uint8_t bitDepth = 8, bool dither = false)
+{
+    if (!writer->f) return false;
+
+    const uint8_t* oldImage = writer->firstFrame ? NULL : writer->oldImage;
+    writer->firstFrame = false;
+
+    GifPalette pal;
+    GifMakePalette((dither ? NULL : oldImage), image, width, height, bitDepth, dither, &pal);
+
+    if (dither)
+        GifDitherImage(oldImage, image, writer->oldImage, width, height, &pal);
+    else
+        GifThresholdImage(oldImage, image, writer->oldImage, width, height, &pal);
+
+    GifWriteLzwImage(writer->f, writer->oldImage, 0, 0, width, height, delay, &pal);
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+// Writes the EOF code, closes the file handle, and frees temp memory used by a GIF.
+// Many if not most viewers will still display a GIF properly if the EOF code is missing,
+// but it's still a good idea to write it out.
+bool GifEnd(GifWriter* writer)
+{
+    if (!writer->f) return false;
+
+    fputc(0x3b, writer->f); // end of file
+    fclose(writer->f);
+    GIF_FREE(writer->oldImage);
+
+    writer->f = NULL;
+    writer->oldImage = NULL;
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+#endif
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/system/snapshot.js b/scripts/system/snapshot.js
index 5eebadd02f..8b71630c96 100644
--- a/scripts/system/snapshot.js
+++ b/scripts/system/snapshot.js
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ function onClicked() {
 
     // take snapshot (with no notification)
     Script.setTimeout(function () {
-        Window.takeSnapshot(false, 1.91);
+        Window.takeSnapshotAnimated(false, 1.91);
     }, SNAPSHOT_DELAY);
 }