Opinion on generating gifs

[Sheraff]

Hi,

I know this is unusual in github but I have this website (whiteboard-comics.com) that animates SVG graphics to make them look like they're being drawn in front of you. However, most of my audience is on facebook so I had the idea to use gifs for them to still the animation goodness (at the present time, I'm just generating blobs in JS on the client's computer and uploading them back to my server to be used as "previews" but they're just the "last frame").

My entire pipeline is automated, all I have to do is draw on Illustrator and post on facebook. What would be your take on automating the GIFs generation? I do have the option of a node server if PhantomJS is really the best way, or of just letting a script run on my computer for a few nights (I draw 52 graphs once a year and I let it post week by week).

Thank you for reading me! Sheraff