Here's a fun little program that does a few cute tricks and is fun for kids or adults to play around with and may even come in handy to save you some time on a quick effect for a project. I can't see anyone using it a lot but what little it does, it does pretty well and the price is reasonable at just under $27 for the registered version (evaluation copy free to download).
DP Animation maker is a smart little program you can use to create animation gifs for websites, backgrounds and other projects with very little effort. Within minutes you will find yourself tooling around the effects toolbar trying out all the plugin effects to create weather, lighting and object animations within your static picture. It also allows for the import of your own static images into any picture and works good with transparent background images like .pngs or .gifs. Sure, anyone with a few mid to high-end progs could recreate the effect, but for those weekenders who want to create some jazzy little images to email their friend or stick or their webpage, DP Animation Maker takes the pain out of construction. If you want to create your own animated wallpaper or screensaver they also offer cheap programs specifically for making those as well. I would download the free trial and play around with it before purchasing but still feel it's a bargain for the fully registered version.
