Animation software used by Futurama and Studio Ghibli will soon be free · Newswire · The A.V. Club

In what has been a trend in the creative world starting with the release of free versions of many game engines, animation software used by famous studios is going open source and free on March 26th. Hopefully we’ll see an influx of original content created by independent film makers, though we may need to wade through a lot of drudge to find it, if the explosion of low quality apps and games in the mobile environment have been any indication of the way things will go.

There are a lot of hurdles you have to be able to get over if you want to make cartoons, especially in world where the medium was already perfected by Adult Swim’s Frisky Dingo. For one thing, you need some semblance of artistic talent, or at least a style that is consistent enough that other people

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