What is a good computer animation software?

I need one were you can actually draw your animation- not select a shape or anything. BUT i also dont want it very complicated or i wont be able to figure it out. Can someone help?

Yes there are many animation programs you can use…

Pivot is an easy to use free 2D animation program for creating stick figure animation:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html

Pencil is another free 2D animation program you can try out also:

http://pencil.en.softonic.com/

This website shows you how to download the Trial version of Flash to create 2D animations:

http://www.baycongroup.com/flashCS4/index.html

LiveSwif is a freeware animation program for creating flash animation:

http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/04/liveswif-poor-mans-adobe-flash.html

You can go to the following websites which has whole bunch of FREE programs, tutorials, and other information for computer animation:

http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/04/synfig-free-vector-based-2d-animation.html

http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html

http://www.teach-ict.net/software/flash/flash.htm

http://www.video-animation.com/flash_01.shtml

You can use a search engine like Google.com to find more of these tutorials and other information.

Also YouTube has a whole bunch of tutorials for 2D animation, Synfig, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Actionscript+2.0+tutorial&search_type=&aq=f

You can also go to an online book store like www.amazon.com which would probably have a whole bunch of good books, DVDS, programs and etc.:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dsoftware&field-keywords=cartoon+animation&x=12&y=18

Good luck and have fun!

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