WhirlGIF, a tool for making GIF animations. whirlgif is a quick program that reads a series of GIF files, and produces a single GIF file composed of those images. For example, if you have images img0001.gif, img0002.gif, img0003.gif, ... and want to loop 100 times, then you can do something like: whirlgif -loop 100 img*.gif to create an animation.