Simple animation software for Arch?

Can anyone suggest a simple animation program for Linux; something similar to AnimationShop for windows. I know there's gimp-GAP, but that seems to be fairly advanced for my purposes. I just want to be able to string together images into .gif or video, perhaps with an 'onion layer' feature so you can see the previous frame transparently; that sort of thing.
I use gnome, so preferably something for GTK, or at least if it's KDE, that depends only on QT and not KDE packages.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Fishonadish

skottish wrote:You don't actually need GAP to do animated Gifs in Gimp. All you need to do is add all the frames that you want as layers in one image, then save as Gif. Gimp will ask you if you want to flatten the image or make an animation out of it. If you choose animation, it will ask you for a frame rate.
Thanks. I realised this eventually and got it done that way.
Still, out of curiosity are there any 'film-strip' type animation programs out there?
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