Blender, the free software animation program, has blown me away. I'm definitely going to use it for animation because it can do both 2D AND 3D, has built in compositing (VFX), can import scanned images or backgrounds made in say krita, and even has a built in non lineaar video editor. It's an awesome tool with a steep learning curve. And I can utilize it with other programs like a raster drawing program like krita or GIMP to do backgrounds that are more traditional animation like and do the rest of the animation in blender. This is going to be so sweet.