Simply the best animation software on the market to create animated gif’s, avi’s, ani’s, flash, 3D Text, and more is Xara 3D. It will also export to still images, including Windows Icon format, (.ico), bitmap (.bmp), JPEG (jpg), Flash, PNG, Static Gif and static flash, .cur (Windows cursor). Note - this will NOT make movies or embed sounds like Macromedia Flash will! This is an excellent program, but it’s better for single images & animations. Please see the web design software page for more information about . (Now Adobe, as Macromedia sold to Adobe in 2005)

Xara 3D - Awesome program! I personally use it almost daily to send animated love notes to my wife. I’ve been using it since version 2 I believe. Go check it out! Click the banner below to go to the download site.

Coffeecup software has making image editing software for a long time, with old standby’s like their html editors, flash generators and the gif animator. Click below to download a free trial. Nice!
 

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