Aesop (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Windows) - is a banner maker tool that allows you easily create animated advertising banners (click to see an examples), buttons, and other graphics for a Website that contains sophisticated studio-quality, special effects, 3D antialiased fonts and image manipulation features.

Banner Maker Pro (Free to Try, $39 to Buy, Windows) - Banner Maker Pro is software for Windows that quickly (and easily!) allows you to create web-based banner ads, buttons, animated gifs, logos, and other web graphics. It's not just for banners!

Easy Banner Creator (Free Edition) making banners and GIF- animations for the Web; making illustrations; presentation materials; development of creative imagination.

FotoMorph v.13.1.5 The easiest way to create professional morphing animations and Flash Rotation Banners.

Zoner GIF Animator 5 (Free to Try, $29 to Buy, Windows) - is the best tool for creating images in the animated GIF format.