"Aesop" is a powerful tool that allows you to create animated GIF images (banners, buttons, labels and headings) for websites and even GIF wallpapers for mobile phones quickly and easily (click to see samples). You can put an antialiased 3D-Text and shapes (rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses and polygons) onto your GIF and you can insert external pictures into GIF. Nice looking effects such as moving of each object across the image (rotating, fadding, color transition etc.) can be used to create a multi-frame GIF in a few minutes (click to see an animated tutorial). Effective palette optimization and data compression allow you to obtain small size GIFs. The simple and convenient interface, make this program useful for experienced programmers as well as for beginners in graphic design.

Convenient step-by-step interface

An excellent antialiasing technique (blurring the edges between color transitions) to draw 3D-Text and shapes:

Effective optimization & data compression