Pencil is Great for Animation and Illustration

You really should add Pencil as a tool to create great animations in swf format. The user aproach is really the same as old school animation. That is you draw roughs, flip the pages for timings and line corrections, clean up with a sharp line, then colour and overlay onto the background. I was taught in the traditional animation manner and reckon that this app is a real comfort to work with. You can also import any work you do in Xara or Inkscape . I do wish there was a bones system similar to Anime Studio though. But there is one very cool aspect to Pencil. The cleanup layer snaps to the bitmap layer. This makes for really easy cleaning up of scanned roughs. But as its freeware I'm not complaining. Its available for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu here http://www.pencil-animation.org/