I’ve had these in my bookmarks for awhile and figured I’d share them.
- Toon Boom
- Synfig - Film-Quality 2d Vector Animation (open source)
- Plastic Animation Software - 2D software
for drawing traditional animation the digital way (free version available) - KToon - 2D Animation Toolkit (open source)
- Animo - they offer some other programs that might be of use to animators also
- PD Pro Digital Painter (was known as Project dogwaffle)
- CreatToon (free software - not sure if any new versions are planned though)
- the TAB - you can export to video files, flash and setup bones for characters
- HASH -they offer Animation Master (seems they updated their web site recently)
- Bauhaus Mirage
- e frontier America, Inc. - they offer Anime Studio and Manga Studio (seems they bought Poser also)