

They are all capable of symbol animation, morph/tween, cut out, bone/puppet animation, stop motion and frame by frame.

I recommend any of the Toon Boom products from Studio to Harmony. ToonBoom has a wide range of software specifically for animation but each suite is aimed at specific types of animation but it can do it all. Sketchbook Pro is also excellent for doing storyboarding and various concept work as well making it a very important tool during the early stages of design and creating model references.

You can then export and import into ToonBoom to take it further and create amazing things. This is excellent if you’re new and can help ease you into 2D frame by frame animation. Taking advantage of these rulers can really help you excel in creating high quality animation and various graphics. One of the more notable features is the perspective rulers, this is particularly useful when creating background art for animation since most animation programs do not offer perspective rulers and you have to draw them manually. It loads and runs fast and has very basic animation. Sketchbook Pro has always been an excellent program for doing concept work but with the added feature of flipbook, it can make creating keyframes very enjoyable.
