Falco GIF Animator is a free GIF Animator that allows you to create animated images (GIFs) for many different purposes, such as software and applications development, uploading to your website, or just for fun!
This free GIF animation software comes not only with all the drawing options that MS Paint gives you but also a variety of special effects to make animations, such as color inversion, image rotation, flip and shift, contrast and brightness control, sharpen and emboss tools, masks and borders to help you create animations for free.
Other free animation software includes 3DPlus, Pencil, and Facebook Profile Picture Animator.
Falco GIF Animator supports a great number of popular file types to make animations, including BMP, JPG, DLL/EXE, GIF, PSD and TIFF. It allows you to store your work in JPG, animated GIF, BMP and TIFF, among others. You can edit images with a size up to 2048 x 2048 maximum using this free editing tool, and apart from importing your images directly from your hard drive, you can also paste them from other free image editors.
Moreover, you can directly edit photos taken with your webcam or even scanned ones to create animations for free in Falco GIF Animator. The free animation software will allow you to Copy/ Paste images in multiple windows or open more than one files simultaneously and also add or remove icons from your image while automatically adjusting their color depth to the new levels. Don’t be afraid of mistakes, as this free editing tool provides you with unlimited undo or redo actions.
This free animation software has a transparency option for PNG & BMP 32 bits files and will allow you to preview and correct your project. Once done editing, you can choose to either store the final product on your computer, publish it on a Website, or print using the advanced printing options it offers. You can also create animated images for banners with its GIF banner wizard, if you feel so inclined. Noise reduction is another great feature that Falco GIF Animator includes, which enhances the quality of your animation.
Finally, you can give a personal touch when you make animations by creating your very own icon library or, if you are a Vista user, you may download and save PNG Icon Packs. For Falco GIF Animator, compatibility is not an issue, as it can be used with a multitude of operating systems.
For another tool to create animations for free, look at trueSpace, Anim8or and Art of Illusion.