How Can I Use MS Paint To Make Cartoons?

Question

I saw some guys on youtube make pretty good cartoons and it said they used MS Paint. I have it but how do I make the cartoon? Like with the mouth moving to music?

Answer 1

Try using ehow.com or youtube.com to find vidos on "how" to make those with that software.

Answer 2

You can't use just MSPaint to make an animated video. Animation is made up of multiple images that when played sequentially, mimic motion. So you can create your images in MSPaint if you want, but you need another program to take those images and compile them into an animated video. MSPaint is a really basic program, there are much better programs out there for drawing or manipulating images digitally, like Adobe Photoshop. Some free alternatives are GIMP and Paint.NET

http://www.gimpshop.com/

http://www.getpaint.net/

Some of the better animation programs have a drawing program and drawing features implemented right into them. Some of the better commercial 2D animation programs such as Digicel Flipbook, Toon Boom, TVPaint, TAB, and PAP, have Student or Express versions that are fairly inexpensive. However, you might be disappointed by how crippled these stripped down programs are compared to their more expensive Pro versions. But if you look hard enough you should be able to find them cracked online (rapidshare, bittorrent). There are some free alternatives.

If you're doing old school drawn on paper frame by frame stuff or stop-motion or 2D, I'd suggest MonkeyJam. It's free.

http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.co...

If you're on a Mac, use Pencil(there's PC and Linux versions as well).

http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil...

If you want to do Flash animation like the stuff on Newgrounds.com, either break down and buy Adobe Flash or you can try Creatoon or Synfig, which are free. They're not Flash, but they also do vector based symbol oriented

animation.

http://www.creatoon.com/index.php

http://www.synfig.org/

Here are some online resources about the basic principles of animation.

http://www.idleworm.com/how/index.shtml

http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonp...

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/...

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/...

http://w ww.karmatoons.com/drawing/1a.htm

http://w ww.animationarena.com/principles-of-anim...

http://w ww.animationmeat.com/notes/notes.html

Answer 3

try using Macromedia flash, it's way easier. maybe there's even a trial version on the site, check it out!

Answer 4

MS Paint really wasnt designed for that. But you will have to be amazing with it to do it. Im not sure with paint. But Adobe Photoshop or any other animation program will be amazing for you man. Good luck

Answer 5

Dude !

Thats simple . You just gotta keep a picture in front of you and draw it.

Its hard to draw it with pencil for that use youtube ithink that will help.

You can use yahoo to search links too. :)

Answer 6

you cant.

Use jasc animation shop instead...

you can find a free download somewhere.

Answer 7

I think those are flash animations using MS Paint, you might want to look at this site:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/514148/how...