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   From: markku@aventuremail.com   
      
   Hello   
      
   You should consider corel painter. It is creat program for painting and   
   drawing. It has some animation features too, but I have not tried to do   
   any animations with it. Painting tools are impressive oil and watercolor   
   simulation, lots of pens and brushes and lots of options for all the   
   tools. I prefer corel painter to photoshop for drawing and painting. It   
   takes quite a lot of resources if you use big brushes on high resolution   
   images, so you should have a powerful computer. adobe illustrator is   
   great for vector illustrations. Maybe you should buy adobe creative   
   suite and corel painter, if you are willing to spend lots of money.   
   Creative suite has flash, premiere, after effects, sound booth and some   
   other tools in addition of phothop and illustrator, so it should have   
   everything you need for producing animations. Wacom tablet is must for   
   drawing. You should go with intuos line. Intuos1 and 2 are almost as   
   good as intuos3 and they can be found very reasonably priced on ebay. I   
   use 6x8 inch sized intuos1 and I think it is just great, but maybe you   
   should go with bigger one, if your brother likes to draw big pictures.   
      
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