2d illustration animation

[howard]

I'm wanting to gather a bit more information on different ways of animating 2d illustrations. Is there a program that will put together frame by frame things that I've made in illustrator, similar to a cartoon? what programs are out there that can help me with this? I'm thinking kind of the style of the movie a scanner darkly(though not nearly as detailed) but from my own animations, not animated from pre-filmed material.

 

[howard]

bump... anyone have any info? In my searches I found software by www.toonboom.com which seems to be kinda what I'm looking for. anyone know of other options or if this software is any good?

 

[Unorthodox]

I'll give this thread some CPR....

ToonBoom seems wonderful in concept. And the demo videos really show how easy and powerful it is.
So I tried the demo.
Unfortunately, The demo is choc'full of bugs.
It's so buggy it's totally unusable. You can can't do anything.

Now I'm torn. I really want to get it.... But if the demo is the same as the full version. No way.