Flash Animation

flash animation?!?!?!?!?!?

i really want to start making my own flash Animation Cartoons
but i cant find a program for that.
and when i do find one it dosent work on my computer
so i need help to find a mildy simple program that dosent disapoints

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/

If it turns out you don’t like the stiff, unrealistic movement of Flash animation, there are some other programs and animation styles you can try.

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/monkeyjam

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

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

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

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

http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonplan/lesson.htm

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/media-preston-blairs-animation-first.html

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/media-preston-blairs-animation-1st.html

http://www.animationarena.com/principles-of-animation.html

http://www.animationmeat.com/notes/notes.html

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