How can you make good cartoons on a computer for free?

How do you animate 2-D cartoons?

• I'm 12 years old, and I want to make cartoons to put on youtube, and other animation things. I want to have complex characters. i can't draw the same thing twice, so I want something where you can save your things, and make them move. I can't draw on the computer that good. I need a program that's free. How do you make character's move without drawing each little thing? How do you add voices? Wat program do I use? I have no idea where to start. Please tell me what programs to use, and answer my questions, and fill me in a little. THANKS =3

• Answer:

  There are a lot of questions here, there are some good animation prgrams (software),..Some of your problem will improve with practice, IE: drawing on the computer, you can get alot of movement, useing cut and paste, in different posisitions,... look at these 2 links, Artoonix, has a free demo, that works quite well,...You don't need you tube, but thats up to you,... check this out: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15387474/kicked.gif http://www.artoonix.com and this one for drawing animations, they both have a "onion skin" option that alows you to trace over the previous drawing,.. http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil if you want visist my forum, if you register and login in, you can post specific questions,..and I will be happy to go into some details, if I can. http://weeklyqbasicandqb64lesson.smfforfree.com/ A idea, for a cartoon.... http://garryspages.webs.com/idea.html