Picasion
Create Animated GIF online for free! Upload your pictures or grab them from Flickr or Picasa Web, make avatars or funny animations and post them to MySpace, Hi5, Facebook, eBay, Orkut, Bebo, Digg, QQ, Friendster, etc. No need for Flash.
Pencil is an animation/ drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation ( cartoon ) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. it requires download.
"Welcome to our free, royalty free stock photography collection of over 1000 images and growing! You'll find stock photos covering a range of categories such as textures, animals, technology, water, fire, jobs and careers, buildings and more. These stock photos are 100% free and are also royalty free. We just ask that you don't redistribute them, or use them with anything that could be viewed as offensive (hate / pornography) ;) Do you like what you see? We would love it if you would spread the word and let others in on this free collection. Blog, Tweet, Follow below, or do whatever to spread the word on this free stock photography collection. "
asks you to type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence. You can save them, and link to old ones via the archive. Here's an example.