FREE animation programs??

Lupe Sancen: 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.com/monkeyja...If you're on a Mac, use Pencil(there's PC and Linux versions as well).http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.phpIf 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.phphttp://www.synfig.org/Here are some online resources about the basic principles of animation.http://www.idleworm.com/how/index.shtmlhttp://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonplan/lesson...http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/media-pres...http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/media-pres...http://www.karmatoons.com/drawing/1a.htmhttp://www.animationarena.com/principles-of-animat...http://www.animationmeat.com/notes/notes.html...Show more

Asley Quickle: There's one called Video Spin which I'm going to get myself. You can download for free at http://www.labnol.org/software/download/video-spin... It supports YouTube, and, I'm told, is much better than Movie Maker. I'm going to get it myself because you can do so, so much with it including putting two videos into a single screen together. I think it'll be worth getting.

Jammie Taddei: maybe u can use windows movie maker or adobe flash

Lino Cawthorne: Did you tested IllusionMage - 3D Anima! tion Software technique? Look on this website : http://3danima! tioncartoons.com/ . This could certainly assist person!

Brice Greczkowski: Advanced 3D Animation Software - http://3dAnimationCartoons.com/?NMpP

Renay Billiar: ok, by far this is the easiest and free-est way to do it. Google Serif Draw Plus 4.0. You can make animations, do blending and all in one program. The program is low on memory usage so your computer does not go slow at all. You simply import or draw images and edit frames. I have made many small animations very quickly using this great tool.