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I guess a few of you know I like doing little animations, and then put them on Youtube. But, I'm considering making a quite long one, but I don't want to spend days making a 5 minute video, on paint. Does anyone have any suggestions on free software I could use, or any useful tips?

Download the Adobe Flash Free trial. I use flash to make animations.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/

Ms paint can make animations?

You'd be surprised. Even pencils can make animations.

He Draws Each Frame in paint then throws all of the images in a video editor.

I tried that once. I ran out of motivation after 2 frames

Oh yeah guess thats true, but I meant Ms alone.

you can always go 3d animations
http://www.blender.org/
one thats great for anime
http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d_art_resource/interests/anime_manga_aiko3

Takes days to make a good one though. See

Use blendaaar.

It's way easier then doing frame by frame.

@Dinner

That was actually pretty cool.

Thanks for all this advice guys.
Does blender do 2D?

i use photos to build stories because i dont have the patience for animation.

Depends on the type of animation you want to do. For 3d/cgi stuff use blender for free or if you happen to have $1000 kicking around get Light Wave 10 and make movie quality stuff.

Mah blender stuff. (still learning lightwave though)