Amateur in what?
If someone can't map, he can try this haha
It's always just animation and delay (so I can use the same animation for few images). You have to understand Envelopes and Color/Pos TO, you must know that images rotate around their green point. I oooften use Grid, 2 times Info.
You need some math to calculate things (how many degrees you should rotate; when to start next animation...) and from time to time look if everything works good ^^ I always have some paper here to write important numbers on it, draw something, calculate
And if you make something 'geometric', let's say this last gif: 24*2 circles, I had to set delay 0,5s for every ball. It's stupid long boring work.
There are always more ways to do it so if it works but you didn't make it like I would, it's ok.
Some creativity and logical thinking is also good ^^ You can copy background few times if you need to cover something, if you need that something appears suddenly - you can use Color Envelope (first it's transparent A:0, and suddenly you can see it A:255) or Position Envelope (first it's somewhere away so you don't see it on your screen X:374537 and then it's in the middle of your screen X:0)
Don't think that I just sit down and start to do it, without big fails and small mistakes, everything works great, every animation has perfect timing and that I just know how to do it after looking 10sec on the gif and I just hit Anim button at end and enjoy it. No. I have to think short, analyze how they move and change color, where they are, count it, try, test. ^^
It's so much fun.
I learned and understood Envelopes in 1 day long time ago. I just moved the points and saw what happens. I made few simple elements with it in that long time and then I started this topic and TESTs
I learned few things from Kintaro because I saw him using something about what I didn't know ^^ Few months ago I made my first sun haha. I did almost nothing before this here, don't think that I have so much experience.
I also don't make maps, but I know every game tile, every button, I understand how everything works. That's the key. To understand it and know what's possible.