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[SelfTitled]

I'm looking into getting more into 2d animation (hand drawn not pixel) but I'm having a hard time finding a good piece of software that I can use to do it.

I was wondering what others used?

[aiat_gamer]

The only ones I know are Spriter and Spine...

[nnyei]

Are you looking for a program where you can do skeletal animation or where you can draw traditionally?

As for skeletal animation programs, aiat_gamer already mentioned Spriter and Spine. Which one you want depends on your budget.

For programs where you can draw traditonally frame by frame, Photoshop (I'd recommend getting a good plugin for it, though), TVPaint, and Toon Boom Harmony come to mind. Also Flash if you prefer working with Vectors rather than pixels (I personally don't like the program much, but that's just me). For small animations, you can literally use any drawing program as long as you have a little program that can display the individual frames as a sequence. I sometimes animate in Sai like that for example.

[kriyo_funions]

In general any program works, as long as there's a timeline and an ability to paint, suggest whatever is easiest to pick up, where the animation process is fairly straight forward.  if you have photoshop, here's a great tutorial on the timeline features: http://www.alexgrigg.com/Photoshop-Animation-Techniques

A relatively newer kid on the block is Cacani, https://cacani.sg/, which is a sort of a mix between flash and traditonal hand-drawn animation.  Lines are tweened between keyframes, but the drawing process is pretty natural.  I like to render out the animation and then paint on top in photoshop.

[diegzumillo]

I'm not an animator but occasionally I like to fool around with it. I found this software pretty good: http://www.pencil2d.org/

[SelfTitled]

Are you looking for a program where you can do skeletal animation or where you can draw traditionally?

I'm looking to do traditional animation. I have spriter which is great for the skeletal stuff. I've tried Pencil2d but I just don't like the drawing in it, it's great for practicing but id struggle to use it for production.

[Ninja Dodo]

I use Plastic Animation Paper for digital 2D animation. Version 4 is freeware:

http://animationpaper.com/old-pap-free-download/

It's got a limited feature set and doesn't do colours, but it's great for line work and pencil tests. There were plans to do a new version, but this was put on hold after a failed crowdfunding campaign.

If you need a more complete feature set TV Paint or Toon Boom are probably your best bet as that's what most people seem to use, but I personally haven't used those.

[SelfTitled]

I use Plastic Animation Paper for digital 2D animation. Version 4 is freeware:

http://animationpaper.com/old-pap-free-download/

It's got a limited feature set and doesn't do colours, but it's great for line work and pencil tests. There were plans to do a new version, but this was put on hold after a failed crowdfunding campaign.

If you need a more complete feature set TV Paint or Toon Boom are probably your best bet as that's what most people seem to use, but I personally haven't used those.

Toon Boom looks very interesting, I'll have to check out the trial

[thedaemon]

Another chime for PAP.

Also DigiCel FlipBook
http://digicel.net/