The jumping frog animation is one I adapted from a pencil drawing of the frog's movements which I found in a 1949 book "Animation" by Preston Blair, published by Walter T. Foster.  Here is a scanned copy of the drawing I started with.

I used the usual graphic editing programs - Paint, PaintBrush, LView Pro, Paint Shop Pro, Graphics Workshop, etc. to separate the drawings, and to clean them up.  The cleaned-up drawings looked liked this:

      


Then I added color to each drawing. The colored drawings looked like this:

      


Once the drawings were prepared, I used a combination of FutureSplash Animater Beta 3 and GIF Construction Set 95, to place the drawings in sequence and position, one by one, until I had a smooth movement.

Further work was needed to make all the frog backgrounds transparent so that the Web Page background would show through behind the frog, and then I had to scale the image sizes to fit the Web Page. (The drawings above are actually much bigger than what you see here.  I resized them to fit on this Web Page.)

The frog will jump from the left edge of this Web Page to the right edge of the screeen in Super VGA mode (800 pixels).  If you are using regular VGA mode then the frog sequence extends past the right edge of the screen, but should still look correct.

All the programs I used in creating the frog animation are freely available in Shareware Versions or Beta versions.  This means that anyone can make their own animations.  And you don't need the speed and power of a Pentium computer to do it.  This work was all done on a 486 DX-66 computer.

All of the technical advice you will need to get going on your own animations is freely available on the Internet and also in the Help Menus of the various programs.

It used to be that animation tools were only available to professional graphics artists with expensive computers.  Now, the Internet has opened up new ways to use animation, and the creativity is in your own hands.  It just takes time and patience to make your own animations.