Fooling around with Synfig Studio this evening. It's a pretty handy little program for creating Flash style vector animation. I watched a tutorial on YouTube this afternoon and then tried to recreate the animation to get the hang of the program. There is a slight learning curve and it looks like it can get pretty in depth, but it seems easy to figure out the basics.

This 8-second animation only took me about an hour to do. Considering I've never touched this program before, that's really fast. When I started, I couldn't even figure out how to get an outline around an object, let alone start the animation.

Forget about paying for your Adobe subscription to make flash animation.

This program is 100% Free