You have a nice Christmas too Tanya!
since the image size was 480. x 270 for the gif, is that what I should set it up for in blender instead of the 1920 x 1080, would it give me a better idea of what it would look like?
You could do that of course, it might be easier to see to end result…but is the image size for the Gif set for you when making it with Giphy?
On Ezgif, the Gif that you create is the same size as the render, then afterwards you can scale it down (to reduce filesize…) if you want. (And you don’t need an account to make a Gif…)