2D animation software

davidbarry

I want to make some 2D animated movies using my own hand-drawn art. I don't have a tablet or anything, so I figured I could just draw the individual animations on paper, scan them to get the art on the computer and fix them up in photoshop/image ready.

Problem is, after I have that finished, what program should i be using to put it all together? Is flash the standard these days for 2D animation, or are there any other programs that are good for doing this sort of thing?

TychoCelchuuu

Something like Flash, Premier, or even After Effects could do this. Heck even a gif animation thing could probably do it.

burntheladle

You could try ToonBoom - I've never used it (although I intend too), but it is a 2D animation program.

Flash is pretty much the standard though.

wallabeeX

I'm in animation and ToonBoom is what I see used.

wallabeeX

Oh, and if you've got all your frames cleaned up in Photoshop, definitely just use something like Premiere or After Effects and import as an image sequence and save out as a movie.

sabyul

In our school, the animation dept uses Framethief. The more advanced kids use Cambridge Animo's PencilTester. Flash is pretty popular as well.

Dalboz

I'll throw my hat in with the After Effects crowd. When I did animation (which was 5-6 years ago, prior to Adobe buying Macromedia), shifting between Photoshop and After Effects was really easy, and After Effects was a great program to boot. Premiere is more for video editing and isn't great for animation. And with After Effects, you can import your Photoshop files and handle and animate the layers individually.

I don't know how well Photoshop and Flash get along nowadays.