It is very easy to create a ascii art animation by CharacterShop.

First you should decide the size of your canvas by "File ->New" .

For example 20*30(Rows*Columns)

Now we can see the first frame of our Ascii art  animation in workspace.Then you can draw some

thing on it.Like this:

If you had  finished the  first frame of ascii art animation.You should click the button "Add a frame"

and repeat the first step until all the frames is finished.

Click the "Play" button the animation will be palyed.

You  can save it as a html format document with javascript like this