How do I Make A Cartoon? Further Details?

Question

How do i make a cortoon? What software do i use? Help!! I Want to make my own characters! What sftware do i use? Is It easy to use? It is free?

Answer 1

sorry i have no clue about how to do it on the conputer

Answer 2

Edit: This answer is specific to free software. For a reasonably comprehensive package which will get you up to speed I strongly recommend you at least try Macromedia Director. Another issue: some Hollywood Studio, I think it was Disney, created a program called Blender, which I've downloaded and played with but I'm not a big fan of 3-D design -- my animations go in another direction -- so I've never tried to carry it through to completion. Macromedia was bought by Adobe years ago. You can find information about it on their web page. If you go to a college, you can probably find a licensed copy somewhere someone will let you play with. Some FedEx/Kinkos have it on their systems if you have some money but not enough for a licensed copy. Inkscape and Blender are authentic open source products. Search for them and for Image Magick (which has been around for more than 14 years) and you will find the product home pages.

I use Inkscape, which is a vector drawing program, except I save everything as gifs and use image magick to create mpegs. That's free. When I was in school we used Macromedia Director which essentially had a paint program which let you create sprites -- that is images you could put on any background. You had to draw them of course which is always hard.

Now any paint program which lets you save gifs is a good place to start. Plan out your drawing, make your background and figures, save them as gifs. Use ImageMagick or some such to convert the figure gifs to transparent gifs, meaning a background color registers as nothing, and then a program like Inkscape to place your animations on the background. Finally save the whole thing as gifs or jpegs and ImageMagick's animate program will put them together into an mpeg, or if you are on a Unix/Linux system like I am, mplayer/mencoder have functions to do that. But ImageMagick, I should warn you, is a command line program. You review the work after you have run it, not using it.