Okay! I discovered that I already own ImageReady, and someone mentioned cheerleaders! I know Miyuki rules, but she has competition in the "pink-haired moe" field. So here's my first attempt at animating a sig, for whoever likes:
Sorry the action is kind of jerky. In order to meet the size requirements I had to drop frames like crazy, it looked a lot better when it was a 110K file.
Dropping the colors to 128 looked like poo too, with all the subtle shading going on in the background. If any of you experienced avatar-makers would like to give me some advice on improving this, I'd be glad for it. ::chucklez:: Advice other than "do something without that much freakin' motion", that is.