You are all so helpful! Thank you everyone for your suggestions and tips. I can tell I am going to love this forum.

Wow. Thank you all for your comments and advice. I am new to this, so I thought I needed to make elaborate backgrounds for every scene, etc. Maybe I was also being a little lazy as slowtiger pointed out. Ok, I am going to "bite the bullet" and see what I can create. I have been reading a b...

This may be a silly question coming from a newbie, but I hate making backgrounds for my animations. Is there a software program out there that assists in just making backgrounds? Ideally it would have some elements like trees, etc. that could be placed around to create cartoon backgrounds. I hope I ...