graphic LCD can be easily interfaced with Arduino. There is a library available for interfacing graphic LCDs with Arduino at playground.arduino.cc/Code/GLCDks0108. for creating anmation you will need to convert image files to hex (.xbm format) using GIMP or other image processing software. for loading images on arduino, you will need to load hex code of each image as character array and then use standard library functions to draw each image one after the other