Sprites

What applications are good for making sprites in games?

I saw one posted on /g/ a while ago, forgot to bookmark it. It was a pixel editor with the ability to animate. Looked very useful and the shareware version costed like $30,00.

Does anyone know what this was called?

>>1
I use Paint Shop Pro, it's more technically oriented than Photoshop and better for this kind of thing. Deals wonderfully with colour palettes if you need (but it also supports 24 and 48 bits per pixel RGB).