"Aesop" is a powerful tool that allows you to create animated GIF images (banners, buttons, labels and headings) for your website and even GIF wallpapers for your mobile phone quickly and easily (click to see samples). You can use an antialiased 3D-Text, shapes (rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses and polygons) and external pictures for drawing in your GIF. A lot of 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 sized GIFs. The simplicity and convenient interface makes this program useful for experienced programmers as well as for beginners in graphic design.

Convenient interface

Unicode support - you can use national characters as Text in your GIF.

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

Effective optimization & data compression