Does anybody know of a free program for creating animated gif's (I don't like paying if I don't have to).

I have looked on the "Pinned:Freeware" page, but nobody has listed any yet.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I dont know any good soft for making animated GIF's, but this could be a good start:

http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&q=Animat...le+zoeken&meta=

Thanks TuPLaD, I did not expect anyone to do a search for me, I was hoping someone would already have and be using one that they could recommend.
Once again thanks for your time.

Most of the stuff I can recommend is commercial software...
Animated GIF construction hasn't hit open source yet (the GIF patent expired just recently (2003), which was the original hold-up) -- and now that it's expired, it doesn't matter, because GIF sucks and is an archaic format with no extensibility.

See also http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html for a tip of the iceberg of reasons that GIF is evil.
also http://burnallgifs.org/
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/6/19/35919/4079

MNG is the preferred format, as it is open (as its brother PNG) and is based on the vastly superior PNG format.

As for programs, I still can't recommend anything, because again, most animation studio programs are commercial. I'd have to recommend Adobe Imageready and Paint Shop Pro's Animation Studio, on the commercial side.

Thanks DjLizard, maybe I should have a rethink.
Perhaps I am a bit archaic.

Hey Dj

Read the pages that you posted the links to, and decided to go with the MNG image filetype, only thing is after browsing around for a while I found some pages containing MNG images which would not actually appear.
I was browsing with IE at the time, would these images have appeared if I was using another browser.
I do, however need a format that works well in all browsers.

BTW I should probably have edited my last post on this subject rather than make a new post, but am still not too clued up on forum rules, this is the first forum I have ever joined and posted to, please bear with me until I get the hang of it.

Unfortunately, IE is a piece of crap. IE [currently] doesn't fully support PNG, and will probably not support MNG in the future, because Microsoft is dumb. I guess if you really want to do compatible web animation, you're stuck with awful GIF, or commercial Macromedia Shockwave and Flash.

MNG-supporting browsers

unfreez (simple - make gifs same size) at
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

also openoffice (more invovled - look in help) can do it at
http://www.openoffice.org/

I think i posted Gimp, you can make animated GIFS in it as well as many other formats. Read a tut though.

Thanks Peter I forgot about unfreez, and I already have that on my computer from ages ago.

Thanks Cursedbythegods, I guess it could be time for me to get gimp to see what else it can do for me.

I agree 100% with DjLizard.

You probably should avoid using the .gif format as much as possible.
And as for animated graphics its often considered very annoying.