Twenty-three is number one!
How I make my gifs

I won’t go into detail but this a simple explanation on how I edit the text in the Zelda games.  If you really wanna know the full process just ask :3

The text in the game is actual text data, so instead of using Photoshop or something to the frames of the gif, I literally edit the text in the ROM with a hex editor.

And for actor placements, it’s basically the same thing except sometimes I use other programs designed for it to help me with x,y, and z positions and rotations.