It started as a black & white fax. I recreated it in Illustrator 7, saving it as an eps file which I then imported into Flash 2. I tweaked the colors and saved everything as symbols to give myself maximal flexibility. Once I got it how the client wanted it, I exported a series of 24-bit color PICTs. These were then batch processed to GIF in DeBabelizer. Timing was perfected in GifBuilder.