Animated GIFs

This is a great blog to look at for animated GIF ideas:
From Me To You

 And here is an article in which the artists  Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg talk about their process which involves both still and video imagery:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/how-jamie-beck-and-kevin-burg-create-their-animated-gifs/237404/