Motion Artist and Clipart
By Captivate developer Sam Sternman, ACC Owner, Accredited Cruise Counselor, Disney Specialist and Aussie Specialist
Motion Artist, from www.e-frontier.com, is a great tool for creating simple to complex Flash files, including pre-loaders for Adobe Captivate and other similar tools, with little need for Flash development experience.
Using a timeline, layering and a basic understanding of functions similar to Captivate 3.0 is all that's required to get started.
We use this application to introduce animations to an otherwise linear e-learning authoring platform. I think you'll find it's a great buy at $49! We love it.
Of course, having a clipart library, such as www.clipart.com is a great plus to keeping things interesting and professional.