What you can use to start animating. Everything from $0 (0:21) to $200 (2:13) to software (3:06) to $999999999 (5:02)

Free Drawing Programs
Krita
Fire Alpaca
GIMP
Inkscape

Free Video Programs
Windows Movie Maker 2012
Original Windows Movie Maker 2.6 (which I prefer since the interface is similar to a professional video editing program)
iMovie

Free Audio Programs
Audacity

Free Animation Software
Krita (2D)
Pencil2D (2D)
OpenToonz (2D)
Blender (3D & 2D)
Source Film Maker “SFM” (3D)
Unreal Engine 4 (3D) is for games, but you could animate with it I bet.

Animation Software
Toon Boom
Flash
Adobe Creative Cloud
TV Paint
CACANi

Products
Wacom
Blue Microphones

Also buy good ear-covering headphones. I’ll talk more about working with animation audio in a future episode.

Stop moping and start drawing!