I'm looking for a software for making animations, its for the kids school projects .
Can you recommend a good one from freeware or one that won't cost me the earth please

My problem is this show's at the end of my simulation shutdown, DLL initialization failed --the application failed to initiailize because the window station is shutting down -----any idea's please - ;) Jim.

Here's a good start:
Free Computer Animation Programs (http://animation.about.com/od/referencematerials/a/freesoftware.htm)

2D animation pencil software please answer my question