Which software is best?

[lilly_12]

Hello everyone.I am a newbie. I really don't knw much about animation.I am really interested in it since i was 14 years old.Now as i am independent so i got a chance to learn about it. I really want you guys to help me out to learn more about it.My first basic question is which software is best for animation? How to use the brushes and all?
,Waiting for the reply.

[Peter Wassink]

To that question, the answer you most likely are going to get on the tvpaint forum is:
TVPaint animation 11 Pro is the best software.

kidding aside, to get a usefull answer you need to explain what you want to achieve
as with any tool it has to fit the job. So what job do you have in mind?
The term animation is much too wide, and does not tell us anything, there are dozens of animation techniques and an endless number of styles


If you are interested in handdrawn "traditional" 2D animation in which you'd like to express a personal style then there are few, if any, programs that can beat TVPaint

the drawing you added would be very hard to animate in a traditional way, it is too highly rendered, with too much detail so it cannot* be drawn frame by frame.
if you want to make an animation that llooks like that you'd have to consider a digital cut-out animation software like Moho or Toonboom.


(* well off course it could be done, but not in a way that you'd be able make some length and also have a life)

[NathanOtano]

For complex drawings like yours and just interpolation you could use after effect as well with duik plugin it's a nice option too (they combined 2D animation and after effect interpolation for this at dreamworks, that way they painted keyframes and interpolated for inbeetweens : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzcEJQ8Hnw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

If you wanna animate frame by frame then I would use TVPaint (also for design/storyboarding etc since it's more handy than photoshop, brushes are in my opinion more powerful except from texturing. So I use TVPaint as long as I'm not doing some heavy layered coloured composited stuff)
For some automated animation lines you can use flash or cacani but it doesn't really suits your drawing style.

EDIT : Ok found this on the web. Don't know if it's your work or not... I would use TVPaint for that kind of stuff, even if here it's traditional animation with charcoal or chalk or something (if it's a reference you like). But could be nice if you talk to us more about yourself.