At 7/16/25 01:57 PM, NK2007 wrote:I use Krita, because its free, easy to use and to animate frame by frame, good for painting, has no limitations, and doesn't crash every 5 seconds, and also many more... Specially the fact that It doesn't have limitations for a free software
"has no limitations, and doesn't crash every 5 seconds"
Debatable. But given the free software part, I'll let it slide lol
Clip Studio Paint EX and Aseprite.
It's nice to have all the same tools and hotkeys that I use for illustration in my animation workflow, makes it so I don't have to get in a different mindset, my characters can look like they belong in their painted environments and so on.
I use procreate dreams! I’ve been using it ever since it came out back in November 2023. It was really cuz the last program I used, Adobe Fresco, sucked to animate in, but that was really the only other animation program I knew at the time and also I was desperate to use it. I’ve gotten used to dream’s quirks like NO LASSO TOOL n such, though would I recommend Procreate dreams? No! At least not right now, but there’s gonna be a huge update coming. I’ve been actively keeping an eye on these forums since last year and hopefully it’ll fix everything and it looks promising, but till the reviews come in for that update, I wouldn’t recommend getting dreams.
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Hello, a relatively new Newgrounder here.
I use Flash Pro 8. Simply to make a protest against Adobe's shit policies on their pricing and such. Also it works pretty well on my aging hardware... the joys of being a broke teen animator.
There may be fifty shades of grey, but there's only one shade of Flash Red.
At 7/16/25 04:16 PM, Kolumbo wrote:none i just make cartoons in my mind for personal enjoyment
You greedy bastard! >=[
At 7/16/25 04:16 PM, Maxfilm wrote:Paper and pencil for animating, and Tv Paint for clean up.
And an OG Gameboy for additional chiptune audio??
At 7/17/25 12:40 PM, Guidodinho wrote:At 7/16/25 04:16 PM, Maxfilm wrote:Paper and pencil for animating, and Tv Paint for clean up.
And an OG Gameboy for additional chiptune audio??
Yes actualy!
Are you cool enough to check out my stuff, punk!
...cracked ibis paint.. or pixel studio, I recommend that one for mobile people
I'm learning to use flash now by the way, but goes hard because I have not much time
I exist.
Pm me here I'm bored as fuck, also my discord: teh_snsqrs
Flash because visually, the quality cannot age poorly in swf format. I am upgrading to Clip Studio Paint EX soon though.
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I use Ibis Paint X mainly because I'm inexperienced, I was wondering what other animation programs are relatively good/ easy like rigging that's free or less pricy?
What are Aseprite animators using to add sound?
I've been able to do it with terminal commands in Linux, but timing is rough.
I have Adobe Animate! I still don't fully understand how it works, but yeah, i like so far!
Cool, sweet and catchy!
i use Tahoma2d because it's basically free toonboom. It has no limitation on features or time limits on how long you can use it before you need to sell your kidney to buy a subscription service. It's just free, forever. It's built in compositor allows me to add effects to my animation that would take ages to do by hand. It's so feature rich that I've been using it for years and I still find new features in it. It feels like a real animation program instead of an art program with an animation timeline slapped on. Heck it's sister program Opentoonz was used by Ghibli and if that isn't a sign of quality then I don't know what is. I can gush over this program all day but I'll save us both time and end it here.
It does not really matter what you use. You could be doing everything with a traditional camera and a light table,
or even scanning things in to making dolls out of images, or even clay. Ask yourself? If you look at animation from the early 2000 you will even see people mix and matching various methods.
The bottom line is that the list goes on. Just do it.
You have seen tons of storyboards/primary scenes to make one.
Just do it -->
clip studio paint (but since I don't own EX I export my frames from there into opentoonz, and then import opentoonz renders into da vinci for final editing)
why? god, I wish I knew
I use Adobe Animate just cause I know it very well and I don't want to make the switch to learn another program
i use macromedia flash 8 because I got it for free on the internet archive. I want to get a newer version but I'm so used to it... ill probably have to switch soon tho because I want to make a big animation and I just need to have more tools and stuff in case.
Since I was in kindergarten I used to use Claris Amazing Animation, and then when I was 14/15 my dad got me Macromedia Flash and still using it today.
If you would like to MAKE MONEY from your Flash, be sure to check out these options:
Response to What animation program do you use and why? 2025-08-03 17:15:33 (edited 2025-08-03 17:17:20)
At 7/15/25 01:12 PM, sugarbunny98 wrote:This counts for apps too
Personally I love Toon Boom, but I would like to expand and try more programs
Also to know about apps to animate
What do you like most about your programs?
I personally use Blender's grease pencil feature. I like having the ability to animate 2D animations over 3D set pieces. The only thing I don't like about it is more of an issue with the software as a whole but I have trouble trying to figure out how to access certain tools cause I don't know the correct shortcuts. Either way it's still works well enough and I'm trying to use it for my indie series.
I use Adobe Animate CC as it’s the one I know the most.
I did use Moho back when it was known as Anime Studio but since I had the debut version, I felt very limited with what I can do so I switched to Adobe Animate at 2018 which I felt was the right decision as Adobe Animate is considered the industry standard for 2D web-animation as many well known animators use it for their projects.
I use Macromedia Flash, its free over at the internet archive
And also LibreSprite, which is also free
Might be the only person here who will say... Microsoft PowerPoint
I might have spent a very long time playing around with this MS Office Tool to a point that I have cracked the code in harnessing its animation capabilities.
Though mostly I think I just enjoyed the familiarity of its GUI and how it doesn't pressure you to make animation since it is not an actual dedicated animation tool.
I have ventured into other animating tools as well (Pivot animator and Flash), but have always returned to this unconventional method of Powerpoint animating, and I think I will continue to stick with it. I've done full 20-minute animation episodes thanks to it.
Response to What animation program do you use and why? 2025-08-13 00:12:54 (edited 2025-08-13 00:16:54)
At 7/18/25 07:10 AM, shadowfals wrote:What are Aseprite animators using to add sound?
Maybe this?
https://ddmplayer.itch.io/aseprite-audio-extension
That's the only somewhat reliable-looking option I'm finding. Problem: it's only for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Oh, and I might still owe an answer to the original question for the topic (skipped earlier because my honest answer is weird).
What I make are small animations using whatever tools I can get to do what I want.
Libresprite/Aseprite works for simple sprites and also simple scenes at pixel art sizes. (These programs fail when I attempt too many layers and frames or larger sizes.)
Pandoc, strangely, can be finessed to combine and convert files until there's a playable animation. The results aren't great if the commands are unfamiliar. (I haven't shared any of its results.)
HTML with CSS works for browser-dependent animations. Kind of. I've been fighting my way through a few deceptively simple-looking animations these past couple of weeks. (I don't want to touch Javascript any more than necessary. It was fun in Y2k, but capability feels like its diminished...?)
Krita is frustrating. For me, it's slow, unintuitive, and buggy. It's supposed to feature rich, but I'm lackadaisical about exploring which feautures function as promised and which will destroy a project after repeatedly feeling like I wasted time opening it.
Back to pixel art style sprites: I liked Piskel for learning, but it crashes much sooner than Aseprite does and doesn't offer the tracking tools. Pixelc is currently my favorite phone app for drafts I can later load into Aseprite.
(Sorry if the above doesn't make sense. Insomnia— messes with mental filters.)
Flazh CC and Azeprite are what I uze
Swag
I use Adobe Flash CS6
Because someone introduced me to the program because I wanted to make an animated series. I learned from tutorials, started animating Object Show characters, and made my first animated series that I haven't let die. I don't want to change software for this same reason. I've also used Toon Boom, but my license expired, but I'm happy with Flash CS6.
ToonSquid for the iPad
Anyone who’s considering buying procreate dreams, just get ToonSquid. It’s cheaper and effectively the same, also has a lasso tool
I use animate cc whenever to make animations flash cc for more small based animations, and I would like to use Photoshop and clip studio paint to make thumbnails and drawings. and after I lost my computer, I use keleki to make my modern day drawings and on my phone, I use prisma 3-D to make small 3-D renders
At 7/15/25 01:12 PM, sugarbunny98 wrote:This counts for apps too
Personally I love Toon Boom, but I would like to expand and try more programs
Also to know about apps to animate
What do you like most about your programs?
All you really need is OpenToonz. Its basically a free version of Animate.
I use it because I needed tweening and vector animation, and also a high-level overall software. It is known to crash on some hardware. Also, an unfortunate fact is that the community is very small. The software is used by a large studio, Studio Ghibli.
adobe animate (formely flash 8 till i switched 3 weeks ago), cuz its very easy
I use Clip Studio Paint EX to do my animations (I'm new to it, so it might take time), Aseprite to do sprite animations, and Blockbench to do 3D models reminiscent of the 5th generation of video games and animate them.
