Best free GIF animator software?

Can anyone give me a place I can download a decent GIF animation package? I have a few programs but they end up making the animation look really bad. Has anyone had any experience with a good free program?

Thanks
Eddie Krassenstein

What you basically need is a compiler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_GIF_Animator

You still have to draw your cels in PAINT or write some script and use a screen capture utility to grab the cels.

Another useful online editor is http://www.gifworks.com/cgi-bin/gifworks.pl?com=transfer_open
You can at least break the animation into single cels and more.

Thanks for the online editor site

www.gimp.org - free image editor like photoshop
www.ifranview.com - free basic editor and good batch program