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Jason van Gumster mostly makes stuff up. He writes, animates, and occasionally teaches, all using open source tools. He's run a small, independent animation studio, wrote Blender For Dummies and GIMP Bible, and continues to blurt out his experiences during a [sometimes] weekly podcast, the Open Source Creative Podcast. Adventures (and lies) at @monsterjavaguns.
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OpenToonz has been released under a modified BSD license. There have already been a number of commits and merged pull requests on the GitHub page for the program (including a fix for crashing on initialization in some cases on Windows). Preliminary tests from a few people show it's certainly a full-featured program with an approach that has a lot of focus on traditional animation workflows.
For Linux support, there are also a number of pull requests in the effort to get OpenToonz compiled and working there (folks who follow Blender development might recognize the name of the developer responsible for those pull requests).
All in all... exciting times are afoot.
Ooooh! That's a great resource. Thanks for sharing it. And I must admit that I did have a selfish motivation in writing this article because I absolutely am interested in getting recommendations for more great shows. So far, I've got two more added to my list (thanks for the suggestions, by the way). I'd say that's a pretty good haul. :)