Looks good to me but @anntzer does the pillow stuff need to be commented out?

I actually find this a bit confusing. If the pillow stuff is commented out, why not just add the comments to an existing example

I think seperately I'd really like a simple dot example since the rain scatter has kind of a lot going on in it.

@anntzer

Adding the instructions commented out to a simple preexisting example, e.g. https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/animation/simple_anim.html, seems fine to me, but an important point is that the title of the example should make it clear that saving as gif is showcased by that example (you don't want the user to click through all animation examples until finding out which one explains how to save as gif).

Adding the instructions commented out to a simple preexisting example, e.g. https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/animation/simple_anim.html, seems fine to me, but an important point is that the title of the example should make it clear that saving as gif is showcased by that example (you don't want the user to click through all animation examples until finding out which one explains how to save as gif).

Agreed. We can make the title more informative, if we go down the road of using this animation to illustrate saving as a gif. But before I make any changes, awaiting confirmation that we want to do this instead of just adding it to another example.

My bias is that I think this example would be useful and a title like "Scatter Animation Saved as Gif" would keep all the relevant bits.

I'm not opposed to adding saving to an existing example instead, but one where a) adding to the title won't detract from the title b)the example isn't so complex that the the saving will get buried.

@anntzer @story645 any progress on what we want to do going ahead?

Sorry, I don't have the bandwidth to look more into this right now.

I'll approve if you change the title to "Animated Scatter Saved as Gif" but I don't know if anyone else will (though I don't think that's a blocker unless somebody explicitly blocks).

Done

We use sentence case, not title case, don't we? ➡ "Animated scatter saved as GIF" (but either way GIF should be capitalized as an acronym.)

🤦‍♀️yeah, sorry forgot! @kostyafarber please switch to sentence case.

@story645 done!

@kostyafarber let me know if I should merge and then a follow up is making this the saving all the things example or if you'll update this as a saving all the things example.

Hey let's just merge it and we can do a follow up PR. Thanks

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