NOT LISTED BUT ALSO GREAT OPTIONS: OpenToonz: opentoonz.github.io/e/ Krita: krita.org/en/ Rough Animator: www.roughanimator.com/ Pencil 2D: www.pencil2d.org/ StickNodes: sticknodes.com/ ALSO looks like you can get Flash MX2004 legally by following this tutorial: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pr6mjbii1LSmfn0.html You guys should be the ones teaching me about free alternatives, honestly

Pivot... Such nostalgia. Spending entire break and lunch times on my school's computers, playing unblocked games with friends and animating on pivot when I could have been actually eating my lunch.

alan :mentions pivot animator me : THAT'S THE THING IM TRYING TO REPLACE ._.

I have been using Wick for almost 2 years and I learnt a lot of things throughout my journey, it's genuinely underrated and more people starting with animation need to use it! It's kind of like Scratch, but with less limitations such as the 480p project size and 30 fps! Wick has no watermark, no fps cap, no resolution cap, although the sound can be a bit confusing and not as optimizable as the other features. Definitely give it a try, they even have tutorials on their own channel!

honestly the best soft tutorial ive ever seen. short and straight to the point ! i love it

What I learned from this video : Pirate Adobe Flash /or/ Adobe Animate

I like how he says :" legally" at the beginning

Honestly once explained it's fairly intuitive. Thank you for breaking it down so nicely for us newbies! Can't wait to play with the full version

The Wick Editor is my favourite Flash alternative. Tweening and nesting animation features work really well.

I originally started with Pivot, it was really easy to use, especially for stick figures. However it gets a bit challenging when trying to make animations with dialogue, that's why I switched to Flash.

When I was a kid, I thought the Animation vs. Animator was made using Pivot.

OMG the people of Wick Editor before it got big came to my school and actually showed us how to use the software I'm surprised that you showed this in your video!

Also you can scretch segments in Pivot by holding Ctrl.

"Flash does cost money to use, legally." :^)

My favourite Synfig studio. The concepts are simple and easy to use with rigging

Glad to see Pencil2d in the description It’s the software I’ve been using to create my animations for the past year

Thank you for taking the time to make something like this. I'm sure it'll do a lot to help new animators who aren't 100% sure they want to spend money to start making animations.

I use pivot, and I love it. It’s amazing for starter animators as you don’t have to keep on redrawing the same thing, while still keeping everything look great.

Super great video makes excited to learn more and get started! Love the "stay organized" motto !!

Ok, so i saw this video and i think "i should comment something positive about his list to say thanks", then i saw the video was uploaded 3 years ago and i was like "oh damn, it's too late", but it doesn't matter to me. Thank you so much for the list

hey alan, first off, I wanted to say I've been a huge fan of your work since the days I spent on stickpage back in middle school. your animations have always fascinated and entertained me and I hope you never stop! you're a truly awesome guy. secondly, I want to thank you for posting this video in particular, as it's definitely going to help me start my own animations and my own youtube story. I've never had enough money to afford the flash programs when I first started, so I was never really able to get anything done, but now i'm going to do my best with vectorian and entertain many people as possible. keep on going dude, I hope this train keeps going for a long time!

I remember I've used Paint and Windows Movie Maker once...

I could listen to Nice tutorialm talk for hours man what a passionate dude ❤️

the animation desk is awesome it has many functions that make it easy for you to use

Do you have any update? Which is the best one now, in 2019?

After all these years, Macromedia Flash 8 still my all time favorite animation program. Still use it! Obviously not for Flash export, but for animation frames export.

Been watcNice tutorialng your vids for a good few weeks now, learning new sNice tutorialt each day. my worksoftow has improved so much since watcNice tutorialng

Thanks for your easy to follow explanations, one step at a ti. It makes learning less overwhelming!

Thanks, Alan! I started an animation on Wick Editor and love it! I noticed that when using a mouse and using the pencil tool, the program straitens/corrects frames so it doesn't look so messy.

Synfig looks pretty alright, I might try it

Returning here 2 years after I first saw the video, I realised just now how much I have learnt. I am so grateful for your channel, everytNice tutorialng

Thank you so much for your tutorials It went from 'nice tutoet science' to simple logic! You have a new subscriber

I used to watch this knowing I would never get Adobe Animate but then I actually got it for Christmas and now I’m watching this laughing

This will definitely help out a lot!

Alan Becker, you may've saved me from having to force myself to give into Adobe's ridiculous high price monthly creative cloud subscription, I appreciate the hard working effort of tracking down every possible alternative free versions of flash that we can check out for ourselves and ill make sure to pick out my new Adobe Flash program replacement, so thanks a million!

I just wanna learn even more now- it looks so cool o.O

I recommend 2 things for animating: - Firealpaca to draw the frames - GoPlay Editor to add music, filters, and more + upload it straight from there

i swear i watched this video more than 10 times , i really like how it works

cool video it helped out a ton with starting out and composing my first soft

tysm I was looking for alternatives but never found one this rlly helps a lot!

2:00 this program was recently released on the widows 10, pretty excited 😆

Adobe also gave the Flash 2004 MX licence key away on their site itself. Sooo...

all i want just say is thanks, this will help me so much, thanks

I am brand new to DAW and soft soft - these tutorials are excellent an very helpful to get soone like up and running. Appreciate

Thank you. I really like your tutorials!

i dont have money to learn animations so istart watching alans vids now im a animator thank u very much if watching this comment im ur big fan

Wick editor is just the right stater pack I need for beginning

Finally soone who speaks in a calm way and getting to the point asap

I've been using Pivot Animator since 2013. You can stretch a certain part of a stick figure by holding ctrl and dragging it anywhere. Enlarging a part hold alt and drag it outward to enlarge and vice versa. Ctrl alt rotates the pivot by where the mouse is at the pivot part as the center. You can also import sprites but ctrl and alt does the same thing (squeezes them).

OH YES YES YEEESSSS!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I will attempt to finish th animation I'm attempting to make with FireAlpaca (A paint program i know not a good idea) And I'll try one of these programs STRAIGHT AWAY!

glad to be back

You deserve youtube award of the year. TNice tutorials video truly nails it! Very well explained... The way you cut the bullsNice tutorialt and get straight to it..

Wow Thanks Now im Can Animate With vectorian giotto

Pivot has a 2019 update now

Now I understand how to make loops and export everytNice tutorialng really god bless you.. your way of explaining simply aweso I loved it

Thank you for this video! Now I am using Vectorian Giotto and its great! I can do basic animations and I even tried to make a little AVA-Short xD

When i was a kid, i thought these "animator vs animation" videos were real. I didn't knew the meaning of animation, i thought the animiation meant the stickmans in your pc and the animator means the cursor. Man i remember i installed a virus just to get the animation in my pc

Which of these would you recommend for sprite animation? Also, what is the film at 0:24?

He did a very good job imo. Explaining the basics step by step. English is not my first language and I have no experience in using DAWs

Thank you for this. I've always wanted to try animation, but I've never had much money to throw at Adobe, and I never found free programs. This video is a big help.

YES FINALLY OH MY GOODNESS YES PIVOT IS WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR

hey alan! Rough Animator says a free trial and we cant save in free trial so whats the point of animating in there if we cant save or export in it? do we record instead then? wtf?

If you kept it going till now you have all the respect that I can give

this helped alot ty and i love your videos

When you said windows phone, I couched.

For ios and android i suggest flipaclip and rough animator (the last one isn't free but damn it's good)

Thanks for the kind words, I'm always happy to help! Let know if you'd like any videos on specific topics in the future. I wish you all the

You took the words right outta my mouth.

You need to be very careful with some programs, (mainly from third-party downloading sites) especially without "external" antivirus programs (ones you have bought) although windows does decent it fails to detect alot, and even with good antivirus programs you still need to be very careful with what you agree to, for example some installers ask if you want *-X-* program to come with or something like that. I apparently got a Trojan horse virus from downloading some video editing software that was legit but the installer was weird and I skipped most of it, thankfully I do have a good antivirus though. This turned out longer than I was thinking but I hope it helps someone.. If anyone takes the time to read this that is lol.

I use flipaclip for animation and it works really good It's free, good quality, and many people use it If you want you can buy add ons but they aren't necessary

You are a living god among n, a legend worthy of praise. What you've uploaded here, will echo into eternity!

thanks alan becker for the best animation apps! :D

The Wick Editor software mentioned is basically the ultimate bargain bin Adobe Flash; In my opinion, Wick is just as great, if not better than Flash, and thanks to the software, I can now easily make browser games and cartoons with more complex characters without going through the hassle of using TextEdit/Notepad or doing traditional animation. :D

I use Pencil 2D, It's simple and I like it

All I can say is thank you I've been using wick editor for 2 and a half years and I would not be interested in animation if it weren't for you

Thank you so much for making stuff in soft a lot easier to understand.

Vectorian Giotto download doesn’t work it brings you to FlippaClip

also shoutout to OpenToonz :)

will get it. Just don't get burnt out. Whenever you need a break, take one.

I just watched a video, and the first thing that popped up, it was Pivot Animator. At first, I just played around with it, but then I saw this video along with your other videos, and I thought that stickman animation is cool. So I dug in. Thanks Alan.

2:56 We Have that on our School computer

This video has been "removed" because of a flashyright claim on adobe

TNice tutorials was so detailed! Great video for beginners. Thank you!

Everything works at its best!!

THANK YOUU I'm just a kid and I don't have any money, I can't really use my adobe flash again but I really want to learn animation. So this has been really helpful. Thank you very much

With Ctrl, in Pivot Animator you can Squeeze

wow, so useful, I needed this.

thanks, it actually let me through so i could download it.

i use open tonz its pretty good surprised its not here

Hey Alan. Can you please credit both S. Pascalopol and myself for the animation at 3:01? S. Pascalopol added sound effects, but I animated the entire thing. Great video as always. These tutorials are always super informative.

You just helped me so much with this video.

Alan becker can you please make a brief video on Tupitube,Flipaclip cartoon animation and Rough animator animation app(android or ios).Please its a great request of your one of the biggest fan and yeah too list some extra your opinion animation apps for android or ios.Please👍

.....Here's what I heard out of the beginning...... ".....Alternative to Adobe Flash, which DOES cost money to use... ....legally."

Thanks for the video, very helpful and well explained. Off to make so soft

Been using OpenToonz for a while now, just recently found out how to connect a mesh to another mesh’s skeleton which is extremely handy.

What about OpenToonz ?

Wait what's better Flash MX 2004 or Vectorian Giotto?

Thanks for this video. I needed a free program to create Flash file and you suggested one that works great for me.

Yesssss, thats what i was looking for. hanks for helping

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