LICECap is great for making quick animated GIFs. I also use the best software every created called ShareX which lets you take screenshots and upload to any of about 20 locations including your own FTP server. ShareX also has the option to do some annotations, arrows, text, shapes, cropping, and more after you capture the screenshot it will open up[ the editor to do any of those edits and on save it will upload to your destination and copy URL to your clipboard. It also saves a copy locally on your computer. It actually does about 200 more thing so it is worth looking at. I use it every single day and have been using it for about 5 years. It is constantly updated with new features and auto-updates when new version available. The newest feature added is screen recording to video file and as animated GIFs! It has different encoding options and uses the famous FFMpeg software to process the files for screen recording. I use both of these programs all the time ShareX and LICEcap and they are just great. I do have a handful of items I would like to be added to LICEcap, maybe someday someone will update the software or build a better version