Flash animation can be completed with Macromedia Flash.

If you want to animate GIF, you can use GIF movie files (personal recommendation).

Software description: GIF animation software, which has almost all editing functions that need to make GIF animation, and does not need to be assisted by other graphics software. It can deal with background transparency and is easy to do. The finished picture can be optimized to make the picture lose weight. In addition, it can save the finished picture as an animated picture of GIF, and also supports PSD, JPEG, AVI, BMP, GIF and AVI format output!

You can also use Ulead GIF to make GIF animation.

If you want to do animation, you can use Toona sinensis arm studio.

Ps: You can Baidu the download address of these softwares!

The following software is also used for animation, but it is not suitable for beginners because it is very complicated!

Two-dimensional software

1、SimpleSVG

SimpleSVG is a vector animation creation function software independently developed by Chinese people. Based on the latest vector graphics standard-SVG (Extensible Vector Graphics), it provides a real SVG animation creation environment, and provides users with an efficient, concise and powerful SVG animation integrated creation environment by using traditional drawing and animation methods and intelligent code programming environment.

2、ANIMO

ANIMO is a two-dimensional cartoon animation system developed by Cambridge Animation Company, which runs on SGI O2 workstation and Windows NT platform. This is the most popular and widely used system in the world. It has a working interface designed for animators, and the scanned drawings retain the artist's original lines. Its quick coloring tool provides automatic coloring and word wrapping functions, and it is integrated with the color model editor to provide unlimited colors and palettes. The color model can set multiple colors. It has a variety of special effects, including lighting, shadows, camera lens push and pull, background blur, water waves, etc., which can be combined with two-dimensional, three-dimensional and real shooting.

The new version of Animo6 has made a lot of updates and supplements in terms of ease of use and functions, thus improving the efficiency of the entire production pipeline of Animo users from system construction, scanning, processing and coloring to synthesis and output.

3. Comic Studio

ComicStudio, the world's first professional animation software, is a professional animation software produced by Celsys Company in Japan, which perfectly reproduces the traditional animation technology on the computer. Make comic creation completely out of paper, and save a lot of money for comic teaching. The cartoon studio has completely realized the digitalization and paperless cartoon production, and the whole process from naming to cartoon production is carried out on the computer. ComicStudlo software can freely choose various types of special pens. Its unique vectorization technology can automatically shape pen lines. The drawn lines can be thickened or thinned, and the curvature of the lines can be freely modified as required.

4、TOOZ

TOONZ is the best cartoon animation software system in the world. It can run on IRIX platform of SGI super workstation and windows NT platform of PC, and is widely used in cartoon animation series, music films, educational films, advertising films and so on. TOONZ uses a scanner to digitally input the pencil sketches drawn by the animators into the computer, and then carries out line processing on the drawings, detects the drawings, splices the background images to configure the color palette, colors the drawings, establishes a photographic table, synthesizes the color drawings with the background, adds special effects, synthesizes the previews, and generates the final images. Use different output devices to output the results to video tapes, movies, HDTV and other visual media.

The use of TOONZ not only retains your familiar workflow, but also retains your unique artistic style. At the same time, you get rid of the heavy labor of manual coloring, the repeated labor of remaking with the camera and the waste of film, get the real-time preview effect, cooperate smoothly, and quickly reach the high quality level you need.

5. American animation

USAnimation is the world's first 2D cartoon production system. With USanimation, you will get the most powerful arsenal in the industry to serve your creation, allowing you to freely create effects unimaginable by traditional cartoon technology. Easily combine 2D animation and 3D images. Using multi-plane shooting, rotary focusing can push and pull the moving lens, infinite palette and infinite layers. USanimation is the only absolutely innovative interconnected synthesis system. After any layer is modified, the simulation effect of all layers can be displayed immediately! The fastest production speed

Three-dimensional software

1 Needless to say, 3DMAX is a software.

2. Maya

Maya comes from the Sanskrit "Phantom World", which is the most powerful solution integrating 3D modeling, animation, special effects and rendering. Maya is a 3D video animation tool developed by Autodesk, an internationally renowned software company, which has been loved and recommended by many animators since its release. Everyone can't help but admire the wonderful visual effects created by Maya, and its excellent functions have shocked everyone in CG. It has been widely used in animated films, animated advertisements, animated TV series, column packaging, film special effects, virtual reality, network multimedia design and other fields, and Maya has become the mainstream software in the three-dimensional world.