I’ve been really wanting to do some animation work, but have not been able to afford the software to do it, but the other day I was at Office Depot, and seen an affordable program ($49.99 US) called Anime Studio 5. It claims you can make very nice looking animation, without having to draw them, frame by frame, like I did for my first short animation “Smiles Stickman - A Walk In The Park“. I am planing on buying it this weekend, and getting to work on a short animation I have. I hope its as easy as it says it is, and works good enough to use to make nice looking animations, fairy easily, and fast. I have been reading reviews, and the jist seems to be that it does what it says it can do, but that it does have a small learning curve (which I can handle), and that there are better programs available (for the price, of course). One of the better programs is supposed to be Anime Studio 5 Pro, which is $199.99 US. The good news about that is, you can upgrade from the standard version, to the pro version whenever you like for $149.99 US! Which means if I like the software, and I want something a little nicer, I can upgrade to the pro version for what it would have cost me to buy it if I bought it first.