whoa... hmmm that one's very complicated... Lemme see if I can figure it

mainly what they did was took a short video clip, turned it into a .gif

I think Ulead .gif animator can do that. [[I lost my ulead when i formated my hard drive on my old laptop :( ]]
not sure if animation shop can..

but then they created a background/frame for it and somehow combined the two...

I would think ulead .gif animator would be able to do that. (I can't show pics cause I don't have it)

I'll provide some images to for you to work with...

what I did was took a short vid. of my fish, Auroraz, and loaded it to my computer.
I opened it in imageready
cropped it
took out frames that I didn't want
and made it smaller in size
then saved it as a .gif

You could do this in ulead .gif animator

now I went into google.com and searched image for a fish bowl
and found this


ok... now here's the tricky part of combining them...
open both up seperately in animation shop
the bowl is a little big so resize the image to width=200
look at the number of frames that the fish has
you see F:41 D:6 under the last frame
that means that it is frame number 41 and the duration is 6/100 of a second

select your bowl and duplicate it until it has 41 frames
scroll back to frame 1

now go to the fish and select all of them
scroll back and grab the first fish frame and drag it to the middle of the bowl

and now save!

phew.. haha - even I'm learning new tricks now