What is used to create animated screenshots (as seen from Atom packages)

Question

More and more I see apis pages or plugins with animated gifs, like Atom packages seem to do this a lot.

See https://atom.io/packages/terminal-status or https://atom.io/packages/mocha-test-runner )

So what tools and workflow are used to create these animated gifs? (the last time I tried it, it was a pretty hard process)

Answer 1

I found the answer in the Atom list. Discuss Which gif creator uses the atom command?

They seem to be using http://www.cockos.com/licecap