animation-creating cartoons

[Yaasir]

i'm good at picture and video editting. I use so many picture and video editors which i learnt all by myself but my ultimate goal is to create movable cartoons. cartoons that can talk, walk, dance, etc
my problem here is that i don't even know the softwares that are used to create these cartoons and there is no institution here that teaches it.
Help me guys, which softwares are used? What links can i use to get such softwares and what should i do? What tutorials can i also get?

[Mary Anne]

software for creating cartoons like t&j,

would be good to start with drawing out on paper like flipbook scenario, then a storyboard, if only 2d then you can go with gif and flash type layouts, if 3d, then you would use 3dmax and others to compile,

corel, animation shop,

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/u…

totallyhip webpainter,

http://www.totallyhip.com/webpainter.htm…

adobe flash,

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/

adobe director,

http://www.adobe.com/products/director/

3ds Max

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ind…

Maya

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ind…

poser and anime studio,

http://www.e-frontier.com/

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CreaToon 3.0

http://www.creatoon.com/

Plastic animation paper

http://www.plasticanimationpaper.dk/

Directors Boards Free

http://homepage.mac.com/directors_notebo…

Anim8or Free 3D Animation Software

http://www.anim8or.com/

Blender3d

http://www.blender.org/

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[Yaasir]

thank you soo much Mary. i really appreciate. just trying to download and try them out now. i'll tell you what happens later. thanks again......