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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://www.animationmeat.com/notes/notes...





Let me know if you need any more help or info.

Use a flatbed scanner, and Animation Shop. It is a program that comes with Jasc Paintshop Pro. Both programs are really easy to use. You can scan your art, edit it in Paintshop Pro, then put your drawings in the Animation Shop frames! You can also set the times for each frame.



Good Luck!

Use toonboom animation, its so much easy no need to apply other softwares.



Dont worry its free in torrentz or rapidshare.