Loss of quality when rendering my project to Animated .GIF?

Hello,
Is there any reason why the quality of my .gif looks distorted when I render it? it looks perfect in the After Effects preview window.
Here is an example of what I am talking about
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7325/comp1sh9.gif
The whole image looks all fuzzy and its making me sad :(
Any ideas on how to fix this, any help would be much appreciated :D
Thanks

Hi I actually made an animated gif in photoshop but it says to save it I have to optimize it and when i do that the same thing happens to me, it loses allot of quality and becomes fuzzy. How do I make an animated gif in photoshop without losing so much quality?

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