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ABCFlashKit Generator (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Mac) - Create customized Flash intros, special effects and animations, for great web design, in seconds! Simply click here or the button to enter the Wyka-Warzecha ABCFlashKit generator, or if you do not have javascript enabled, click on one of the links below (you will also be able to order from there).
Active GIF Creator 2.14 (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, PC) - With Active GIF Creator you can create exciting, attention-getting animated buttons and banners for your Web site's design and promotion.
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Advanced GIF Animator (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) - Powerful tool for creating animated gif images, banners, buttons, and even movies
Aesop (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Windows) - is a banner maker tool that allows you easily create animated advertising banners (click to see an examples), buttons, and other graphics for a Website that contains sophisticated studio-quality, special effects, 3D antialiased fonts and image manipulation features.
Animate Me! (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - creates gif animations on the base of predefined effects. You can define sequence and parameters of separate effects to get peerless animations quickly and easy.
Antechinus Animator (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - Add images, import sounds, create AVI videos.
Antechinus Media Editor (Free to try, $35 to buy - Windows) - Antechinus Media Editor is a superb collection of utilities enabling you to quickly create and manipulate movies and sound files. Produce animated movies in just minutes and incorporate them in your web pages or e-mails, along with MP3 sound files and much more.
Artful Gif Animator (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - Create impressive and compact animated GIFs for banners, ads and web buttons on the fly!
AVD Graphic Studio (Free to try, $25 to buy - Windows) -is the powerful editor for graphics, animation and video. The program allows you easily to edit, view and print your images, using painting tools, drawing tools and various effects. You can import multiframes files (AVI and animated GIF) for editing, easily receive separate frames and create your animated GIF and AVI.
Babarosa Gif Animator (Free to try, $29 to buy - Windows) - provides the fast and easy way to create compact gif animations for the web.
BoardMaster Storyboard and Timing Software(Free to Try - Windows) - is designed specifically for the development of storyboards.
FlasherShop (Free to try, $30 to buy - Windows) - is a quick and easy way to create Flash animations with professionally designed templates.
Gifmation (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac) - GIFmation is a highly intuitive and powerful GIF animation application with a very extensive feature set providing the ability to easily create sophisticated and highly optimized GIF animations for your web pages.
Gypsee
PRO (Free to try, $20 to buy - Windows)
- is the most complete animator software package which
enables you to quickly and easily create screen savers,
animated greeting card, flash and animated musical GIF
from your image and sound files - without any programming
skill.
Internet
Character Animator (Free to try, $180 to
buy - Windows) - offers visual support for the creation
of professional quality 3D animations. Animated characters
can be placed into ISA scenes to add a range of new
interactivities and animations - an essential element
in the development of interactive clips for the Web!
Jasc® Animation Shop™ 3 ($40 to buy - Windows) - The Complete Solution for GIF Animation on the Web
Liatro SWF Decoder (Free to Try, $39 to Buy, Windows) - lets you extract usable resources from Flash SWF movie,including actionscript, buttons, shapes, images, sprites, texts, fonts, frames and sounds.
Mediator 8 (Free to Try, $399 to Buy, Windows) --Mediator 8 is quite simply the easiest way to create multimedia interactive Flash®, HTML or CD-ROM Presentations. Combine text, images, video and sound, for the ultimate multimedia experience. No programming required!
Meshbox 1.0 (Free to Try, $150 to Buy, Windows) - is a new application for 3D artists, animators, multimedia developers, media production houses and everyone else who wants to collect, manage and convert 3D objects.
MotionGIF 3.0 (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - An all-in-one and fast Web animation creator!
Paraben Gif Animator (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - Make your own animated GIFs. Create them from scratch or from other images
Pixopedia 24 (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) is a new approach to image editing and painting, animation and video editing. You can perform almost any action through brush movement.
PNG/MNG Construction Set (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - Dangle from the leading edge of web page animation – try the next generation of animation packages. Create breathtaking animations without the limitations of GIF.
RainEditor (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - is a Flash producer that helps you to make flash movies with particle system fast and conveniently, and optimized swf files will be exported ultimately.
ScreenFlash (Free to Try, $79.95 to Buy, Windows) - If you want to build animated, interactive software tutorials in the shortest time, ScreenFlash is your best choice! It is the easiest and most effective tool for demonstrating your software product, adding animations to your application's Help system, or training novices.
swfXXL (Free to Try, $90 to Buy, Windows) - will turn any Flash™ (swf) file into a fullscreen sized application that will run without any loss of speed!
Ulead GIF Animator 5 (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - The No. 1 GIF animation tool for Web
Ulead GIF-X.Plugin (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - 22 instant animated high-end light and motion effects
UnFREEz (Freeware - Windows) - is a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images.
Zoner GIF Animator 5 (Free to Try, $29 to Buy, Windows) - is the best tool for creating images in the animated GIF format.
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