Help Picking a Flash Program

[danthebugman]

I have recently gotten the bug to create some flash cartoons. First off I have absolutely no prior experience with flash manipulation, though I have seen some of my friends do some pretty cool stuff with it. I haven't been able to find a program to use for Linux. I've done some research through the forums, but couldn't really find an answer :(
So can anyone point me to a flash creation program that's also easy to use??

[smartboyathome]

The only one is the program from Adobe. You can do SVG animation, though.

[zxscooby]

http://www.linux.com/feature/129887

[badmedic]

If you just want to do some cartoon style animation, KToon might be an option... http://ktoon.toonka.com/index.php

I have never personally used it, so I can't really vouch for the quality or ease of use, but it can output animations as Flash .SWF files.

[scragar]

I'm a big fan of moho(or since the name change Anime Studio Pro), it's about 5 times easier than flash to use, and even more powerful, which is a definate plus. on the negatives however it's paid software(although for some reason the serial code is included with the trial version, go figure) available on a free trial, definatly worth checking out, even if you don't intend to use it after the trial is over.

[MarkBremmer]

Anime Studio Pro is perfect for this kind of work. However, it does have some special effects that don't export well to .swf formats. However, it does export the gradients and that's a huge time saver when animating it.

If you're interested, I do have a tutorial series (http://www.markbremmer.com/3Bpages/animestudiopro.html) on it with some free lessons. You'll be able to see it in action and maybe see if it's something worth picking up. Anime isn't very expensive for everything that it can do. The automatic lip syncing is worth it's weight in gold.

Mark