**vlaaitje, do you have a history as a "doll maker" or "sig maker" for web things?  The butterfly is really neat and like I often see in personal sigs( generally too long and take up too much web space!) 0  Another is the "pen writing the person's name" sort of animation. **

In Geneeral: Simple animations are not hard to do...just takes a bit of time with about 3 copies of the same image with slight variations in the one to change. These are saved and loaded as .gif files. You need a software to animate the frames into one cyclical thing, with options as to how long each frame shows and if the animation continues or just goes one time. PSP does it easily and for the kitty of mine, I took one frame and painted in the closed eye, even if the color is not quite right in this one.

My kitty avatars are just because I love them and want to give them some web time.  My face is totally lovely but not for public view very often...it doen't translate well on the web to my personal definition. LOL>

Tom.

We see ourselves as others do not.