Not to be a bubble-burster ("Hello, my name is Scoutmaster, and I'm a Bubble-burster.""Hi, Scoutmaster." I think that's how it works from television.), but I use Adobe Fireworks for simple animated .gifs and Adobe Flash for complicated ones. There are also some stand-along programs. All of these can be used in combi . . .
Wait. Did you pay for the seminar?
I wasn’t talking about your tools, but about the mind that finds and uses the images in your graphics. ;0)