How do I make a animated series and where can I get free programs.?

Question

I need to know how to get a small team of artists over the internet. I also need to know where I can get a free program to color the cels drawn by hand, a free program for making and importing the cels into backgrounds, ad finally one to animate them can someone give me a answer.

Answer 1

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. All these also have digital ink and paint capabilities. 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...

You can't color in MonkeyJam as it's essentially a line testing program, but if you use something like Photoshop to color your images you can then import them into MonkeyJam.

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://www.karmatoons.com/drawing/1a.htm

http://www.animationarena.com/principles...

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

Answer 2

you can try gimp which has an animation studio or

see if there is anything here

www.thefreecountry.com

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/

http://downloadpedia.org/