Creating animated GIFs -- please point me to a free program

Factual Questions
1

Are there any freeware programs I can use to create my own animated gif from a series of pictures (from a digital camera).

2

Google?

3

try versiontracker.com

4

You going for that faux 3-D effect?
I think when my friend and I tried that out we used the GIMP.

5

If you’re on a Unix system, and are comfortable with command-line tools, I’d recommend gifsicle.

Those are two big ifs, perhaps.