Justin M did you do make your avatar? It's pretty funny to watch GraphicsGale user here too. Infinitely more useful than ImageReady as a pixel animation program.
Sectaurs: Check this out, GraphicsGale I did a pretty nifty animation before I realized the free version only saves in a proprietary format, I might buy the complete version.
crud, that's not the site I was thinking of, this is it: http://tsugumo.swoo.net/ except it's down right now. Basically the guy drew it out the animation the traditional way, scanned it in and resized it and then drew the pixels over the image... which sounds like a job for GraphicsGale (since it can do layers)