I've been doing a bit of development work on the synfig animation package recently. This is a small animation I put together to test things out. synfig studio is available for download from http://www.synfig.com/ The .sif file for this animation: http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/handwriting.sif Tutorials about how to use Synfig: http://wiki.synfig.com/Tutorials