What's a simple to use modern animation program?

Question

Back in high school, I used an absolutely pathetic animation program called the Spiderman Cartoon Maker to make absolutely amazing, provocative, satirical cartoons for classes. The charm of the program was that it was so simple a three year old could use it. Are there any animation programs out there that are more up-to-date and refined that I might be able to use now to easily and quickly produce animated shorts? What are some suggestions?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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

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

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

Answer 3

I have used Flash, which is good, but expensive, Cinema 4D, which is very expensive and quite complicated, but is an exceptional animation tool, and you can get a free trial version.

http://www.maxon.net/pages/download/down...

You could try

http://www.blender.org/

which is free and rather good.

Another one is JASC animation pro that came with paintshop pro gold, its a very simple frame by frame animation program, a little like the 'saving for the web' option in photoshop.

whatever you choose have some fun.

Answer 4

Flash.

Answer 5

TISFAT might do it for you.

Pivot Stickfigure Animator is time-consuming, but decent.

Cutout pro/Stickman 4.9 sounds good, but i didn't learn how to use it.

Flash is way too time-consuming for animating, and it costs a lot.