Animation EffectBox
Animation EffectBox creates GIF and AVI animations on the base of predefined effects (such as moving objects, small particles, running text, wave, shake, appearance, explosion, changing brightness). You define sequence and parameters of separate effects to get peerless animations quickly and easy. ... Program features: - loads background picture for created animation from BMP, JPEG, PSD, PCX, PNG, GIF-files; - manages the list of animation effects and calls edit dialogs to set parameters of each effect; - defines animation parameters: count of frames and delay; - builds animation on the...
http://www.easyimagetools.com/products/effectbox/effectbox.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Animate Me!
Animate Me! creates GIF and AVI animations on the base of predefined effects (such as moving objects, small particles, running text, wave, shake, appearance, explosion, changing brightness). Program features: - loads background picture for created animation from BMP, JPEG, PSD, PCX and GIF-...
http://www.wsoft-lab.com/products/animateme/animateme.zip - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

Flash-Creator
Do you need more a more dynamic website? What about your own flash movies on your side? You don't need a complicated and expensive Macromedia Flash! With Flash Creator you can add texts and graphics and only have to set the starting state and the end state of the animation. ... before and after the animation and the program will render the movie for you! ... The program offers you unlimited possiblities but is very easy to use! ... The flash movies file are very small. ... With 10 or 20 Kbytes you can create impressive Animations for your website.
http://www.cadkas.de/flashcreate!.exe - 795Kb - Download - Screenshot

Pivot Stickfigure Animator
This program makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages. An example animation is included.
http://atlas.walagata.com/w/peterbone/Pivot.zip - 400Kb - Download - Screenshot

Stickman
Stickman is an easy and cool software for creating 2D movies. Make animation clips or scenes for animation movies, with over 80 figures accessible in the online library, integrated into the program. The program is build with animation beginners in mind, using a simple control interface and... This program takes animation possibilities into new generations, where you can control your characters by control points for smooth and natural moving. ... You can also add pictures to your scene. ... Animating body motion and speech seperately allows re-animating for other languages or screen play...
http://www.cutoutpro.com/Stickman.zip - 852Kb - Download - Screenshot

SWiSHmax
SWiSHmax has everything you need to create stunning fully interactive Flash animations. You can create shapes, text, buttons, sprites, and motion paths. You can also include more than 230 ready-to-use animated effects including explode, vortex, 3D spin, and wave. ... You can preview your animation inside SWiSHmax without launching a browser or external player, and live editing lets you make changes while the animation is playing. ... A scripting language allows you to program sophisticated operations into your animations.
http://www.swishzone.com/downloads/SetupSwishmax.exe - 9Mb - Download - Screenshot

Vectorian Giotto Light
Vectorian Giotto Light is complete GIF and AVI animation authoring editor tool. Vectorian Giotto Light has powerful yet very simple user interface. Even if you had no experience whatsoever with animation or graphics tools before, you can learn to use Vectorian Giotto Light effectively within 10... You can easily preview the animation at any time from the application itself and you can export finished animation at any time you wish. ... objects can translate, rotate, grow bigger or smaller, change color or gradient fill, stretch, skew, disappear and reappear during animation ?
http://www.vectorian.com/download/installvectoriangiottolight.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Sprite Builder
Sprite Builder is used to combine separate images (prepared in any other graphical editor) into one sprite. This program has been developed particularly for animators who create animation for games and other projects. New: now You can load frames from Gif animation file and save result as GIF...
http://www.spritebuilder.com/spritebuildersetup.exe - 876Kb - Download - Screenshot

GentleDraw
GentleDraw is a program for creation of 3D models from black-and-white images using vector conversion. You can move and rotate 3D models just by dragging them, changes are shown on the screen in real time. You can easily adjust color, texture, borders and animation settings. ... The program includes 3D models borders editor and animation routes trace editor. ... GentleDraw is a quick and easy way to produce high-quality animated GIF files. ... GentleDraw can save animations as animated GIF files.
http://www.gentlegames.com/download/gentledraw_setup.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Vectorian Giotto
Quickly and easily create professional Flash animations for websites. Vectorian Giotto has powerful yet very simple user interface. Even if you had no experience whatsoever with animation or graphics tools before, you can learn to use Vectorian Giotto effectively within 10 minutes. ... You can preview your animation inside Vectorian Giotto without launching a browser or external player. ... You can very easily add amazing effects to your animation - objects can translate, rotate, change size, change color or gradient fill, stretch, skew - or do at the same time any combination of those...
http://www.vectorian.com/download/installvectoriangiotto.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot