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.