2D Animation
I've started using a wonderful program called Synfig. It is a 2D vector animation program. I have it installed on both my windows laptop and my linux desktop. It's free and you can get it here. I've played around with Blender a little bit, and have done quite a bit of work with Anim8or. And while blender and anim8or could do something approximating 2d animation, I wanted a program that did it natively. A couple other programs I've heard about in the 2d animation arena are Pencil and Inkscape, but I've not tried these programs.
So working with synfig, I've made my first 2d animation. It's located on my youtube channel. What else can I say? If anyone stumbles across this sorry mess of a blog, go check out these programs.

