Does anybody know of a good, free video making program that I can use to make avatars and small videos out of scratch?

Do you mean like a frame based .GIF editor?

That sort of program would probably be best for avatar animation. Although I don't know of any programs off head.

To make animated .gif I use GIMP in there you have just to put the frames in separate layers, save as .gif animation.... and you have a beautyful animated avatar like mine ;)

For something more professional... i don't know :P

Yah thats what I mean sean :)
Hmmm, ok I'l try GIMP :) I used to have that, but I uninstalled it when I got photoshop, didn't know it did animations too, thanks guys :)

You can do them in photoshop too, in image ready. File -> Modify in image ready, or something like that. Been a while.
Like this:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...z/domovoy1.gif

Hmmm, ok, I'l try that :)
Thanks!

Never could figure image ready out.