In terms of buttons, I made mine in Photoshop, though any art program will do. A free one that I reccomend is FireAlpaca. It's really neat and simple to use
i used ibispaint ! i animated it on pixel studio but ibispaint came out w an animation feature
Doubling FireAlpaca, that's what I use. After that, I put the frames together in EZGif
*if I'm making a gif or blinkie I make the individual frames in FA and then put it into EZGif, sent too early
maaaaybe thinking of renaming my site but who knows?!?!.. the future of this site is unpredictable..
aesprite is probably one of the best options out there :D
i would definitely recommend gimp!