computer animation festival
how to do i make my own cartoon?

i already make them and recently won an award at a film festival ; but to be honest ive taken stop motion just about as far as it will go,and it is far too
tedious making cartoons on a large scale when i have to draw out each frame.

ive looked into animation software on the computer and so far ive Only found ones that have cartoon characters set onto them that you have to chose from.

ive heard of sort of mouse pads that have a pen that you can draw onto and that sounds good but i don’t know how much they cost..i don’t even know what they’re even called!

is there any down-loadable software thats reliable that you can put your own characters into or does anyone know of a better way to make cartoons?

I use Flash when making animations, however, it’s not free… When I use it, I draw a picture, and scan it to my computer, then trace over it in Flash to make it the vector image used for animation.

SIGGRAPH 2010 : Computer Animation Festival Trailer