Cartoon animation software

Draft

Introduction

Cartoon animation software should allow a user to produce cartoon-like movies in various ways.

We define cartoon animation software as some kind of specialized multimedia animation software]] that should be rather easy to use.

List of software

(unsorted, not complete !)

Easy cartoon production using built-in characters

• GoAnimate Online tool
• Xtranormal

Other

(to be sorted, some of these actually may not be what we would call cartoon animation software ...)

• Zooburst
• CreaToon. create 2D animation in the cut-out style. Windows.
• ToonBoom offers several products. Can output Flash
• Pencil Animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
• iKit Movie
• Anime Studio
• Toufee
• Web Cartoon Maker

Links

• Flash Animation (Wikipedia) includes pointers to Flash (swf) based or producing software.