Or, for a free and open-source solution, try the GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/).
Yes you can try the gimp (latest version) and for tutorial for animating you can go here for advanced animation (http://gimp.org/tutorials/Advanced_Animations/) tutorials and here for simple ones (http://gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/).
It will give you step by step tutorial on gimp animation.
Good day. :D
for gimp, just create layers, and each layer is a frame. then save as gif and export animation. there is a plugin for gimp, but i never found it or new how to use it, it said i had to compile it. thats too much work for me.
Too much work? ./configure && make is too much work?