Attribution: (Note, these are all links due to it being software.  I will use the full name for ease of searching)

Software:
Autodesk Maya 2016 Service Pack 6 (Student Edition)
For animation.
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/downloads/caas/downloads/content/maya-2016-service-pack-6.html

ImageJ
For assembling the video.
https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/

GifRocket
For making the GIF
http://www.gifrocket.com/ 

Rigs:
Morpheus Rig 1.0
http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheus.asp