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1. Re: Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

   

   Reply by MiAlx · Mar 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   Flipbook is also pretty cool and is widely used, it's often used by some animators at Animation mentor and iAnimate so it's gotta be alright. And its for mac as well. The Flipbook link.

2. Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

   

   Topic by System · Feb 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   Hey guys, I've found myself working on a couple of projects recently where it would've been useful to block out some rough animations in 2D to help me plan the 3D, but it's not something I've ever looked into before now. Can any of you recommend a nice simple program that offers a good, quick and easy workflow for…

3. Re: Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

   

   Reply by harihan · Apr 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   Adobe Flash Professional, Pencil, Ajax Animator are some of 2D animation software...

4. Re: Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

   

   Reply by Andreas · Feb 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   Blender has that grease pencil tool if thats any good to you... Let's you draw in the viewport and even animate it I think. Only really useful if youre animating in Blender too I guess...

5. Re: Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

   

   Reply by rube · Feb 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   If you already own flash you may as well use that. It's pretty simple to learn what you need to animate in it, assuming you can already animate. It's used for a large number broadcast cartoons so it's more than capable.

6. Re: Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

   

   Reply by JR · Feb 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   Ah, I forgot the most basics: Photoshop and Painter. Since CS3, Photoshop offers a great functionaltiy with animation using a timeline. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSB7275DCE-9985-4abb-A939-3B131937F386a.html Just Google for some tutorials and you'll see. And Painter has been doing animation for many years…

7. Re: Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

   

   Reply by JR · Feb 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   http://plasticanimationpaper.dk/ Free and the best around for rough animations.

8. Re: Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

   

   Reply by ZacD · Feb 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   South Park is animated in maya... ;) If you don't want to use tweens, or a 3d app, try flash.

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   Reply by r_fletch_r · Apr 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   We (boulder media )did all the Animation for 'The Amazing World Of Gumball', 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends', and 'El Tigre' in flash.

10. Re: Can Anyone Recommend some 2D Animation Software?

    

    Reply by ZacD · Mar 2012 · Home› General Discussion

    Mostly because maya has a lot of awesome tools and scripts that allow them to hammer out a lot of episodes quickly, I've seen 2d animations make in 3d programs that user bones and weighting as well, there's a lot of advantages too it.