Pivot for stick animations.
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Pivot is a dirt simple stick figure animator. It saves stuff a .gif's. and by using the Use Bitmap As Background tool, you should be able to do animations of other stuff.its free, get Pivot here: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/
Macromedia/ Adobe Flash (Macromedia Flash 8 is the best imo but CS4 is ment to be quite good) it might start out complicated but its really powerful if you get the hang of it.. I make my sig/ avatar with italso for animations that you just want to flick through images I use easy gif animator :-Dboth you have to buy but both worth the money
Well, I have figured out that I have Adobe ImageReady, which is apparently an animation program... Now I just need to figure out how to work the thing.