HAHA... NOOooo.. I only do animations to fuck around with people on forums, so I cheat 
Animations (frame by frame) are waaaay too time consuming for me..
My cheats------
Take the Killary Pig for instance.. I found a pic of a pig and chopped Killary's face on it. Imported it into an app called muglife.. which animated her face. LOLOL.. Cool app if you ever want to try it out for a laugh 
Other times I will steal an existing animation from the net and import it into photoshop and change the face to whoever I want to fuck with.. An example of that is the stickman animation with Cindy's head on it.. I found the stickman gif on the net, imported it into Photoshop and added his ugly mug 
Depending on how "busy the animation is" I still have to go frame by frame and it's still time consuming. That one was easy because his head is static, so I didn't have to change the position in each frame
I made this back in the TrollValhalla days.
The helmet is in PaintShopPro, then I used HitFilm to add the fire, then I believe it was AnimationShop (at that time it came bundled with PSP) to convert the .avi to .gif
It was a bit of a rush job so the first and last frames don't match perfectly; hence the jerkiness when the frames reset.
Sounds like and was a lot of extra steps but as you said it still beats the pants off of doing it one frame at a time. Heh
