Gif Animation

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Animation Editors Price
1 Xara3D $44.99
2 Blue Squad $59.95
3 Reallusion iClone $299.90

When it’s moving, it should be moving. The evaluation of all great animation tools out there has caused some animated discussions in the office (pun intended), but this is a fine selection that we all agreed about – almost.

Mac GIF Animation

  • Animation Maker (Fat) (Mac) - Easy to learn and full featured animated GIF program. Commercial Demo.
  • GifBuilder (Mac) - Pretty good and Free scriptable utility for creating animated GIFs.
  • Gif.gif.gif PPC (Mac) - Simple program for producing GIF animations. It takes sequenced screen shots from your display. Shareware.
  • GIFmation or GIFmation ftp (Mac) - Excellent GIF animation program with an expansive feature set. Easy to use and intuitive interface. Commercial/Demo.
  • A Smaller Gif (Mac) - Shrink animated GIFs without changing their appearance. Lossless compression format. Uses the optimum compression technique to suit. Shareware.
  • Smart Dubbing (Mac) - Freeware movie viewer for converting Quicktime files to animated GIFs.
  • WebPainter SE (Mac) - Helps you make animated GIFs. Supports JPG and PNG. 15-day Commercial Demo.

PC GIF Animation

  • AniMagic (PC) - Easy to use full featured animated GIF creator. Color optimization, transparent color picker and special effects. Shareware.
  • A Smaller Gif (PC) - A program that greatly compresses animated GIF files without any loss in the image quality, and they're still normal animated GIF files. Shareware.
  • GDIT (PC) - new program that edits/creates T/I GIFs for use in CGI scripts in which there may dynamic data to be plotted. Shareware.
  • Gif*gIf*giF (PC) - Simple program for producing GIF animations, and can produce animated demo's of software that can be placed on the Net. Shareware.
  • GIF Movie Gear (PC) - Easy to use, compact thorough GIF animator program. Can optimize palettes and shrink the filesize through various methods. Other features include animation resizing, support for Photoshop PSD, JPEG, AVI, BMP, and GIF files, export to AVI, and HTML generation. Shareware.
  • Graphics Workshop for Windows (PC) - Good all-round image management package. Features such as browse your image collection and view pictures, convert formats, keyword database, scanner support, decode web pictures. Shareware.
  • HyperSnap (PC) - Screen capture utility that offers T/I GIF output. Shareware.
  • Lake Clear Animato (PC) - GIF animation painter and assembler. Create GIF files or sprites for video games. Full range of paint tools and animation tools. Some advanced features include: paint animation frames while you view the animation, paint on all frames at the same time, drag and drop frames. Shareware.
  • LView Pro 1B (PC) - Full-featured shareware graphics package
  • Paint Shop Pro 3/4/5 (PC) - Full-featured image and animation program. Paint Shop Pro 5 is the latest version with Animation, Layers, Picture Tube brushes, CMYK separations and pressure-sensitive tablet support. Shareware.
  • Ulead Gif Animator (PC) - Excellent GIF animator. Supports over 30 formats, includes an incredible optimization routine. 15 -day Demoware.
  • VuePrint (PC) - Widely used Win program for viewing images. Shareware.
  • WebImage (PC) - WebImage is an image manipulation program used to enhance, optimize, and create graphics for the World Wide Web. Support for GIF, JPEG, and PNG, allows conversion of graphics to standard web formats.
  • WWW GIF Animator (PC) - Multithreaded 32bit animated Gif designer for beginners and experts with an intuitive user interface, lots of built-in effects and transitions, and speed/size optimizing settings. Supports GIF, JPG, BMP, TGA, AVI, ICON, ANI, CUR. Shareware.
  • Web Graphic Utilities- List of the tools that help your webmaster life easier. Reduce GIF/JPEG file size, create 3D buttons, convert file format, and more!
  • Web Graphic Editor Tools- List of the tools that you can use them to create web graphics.
  • Gif Animation- List of Gif Animation tools that you can use them to create animated graphics
  • Image Mapping Tools- Create a clickable image that brings visitors to different parts of your web site.
  • Web Graphic Utilities- List of the tools that help your webmaster life easier. Reduce GIF/JPEG file size, create 3D buttons, convert file format, and more!