i feel happy reading this.
more people and even the animation industry should consider using this software over adobe animate/flash
i also like to compare it to gimp, af gimp is to photoshop
however, since he has as many features as toonboom, he is another scary tool wich will drive newbies away.
it will take ahile to lear to use O P E N T O O N Z, but if you do, it will be rewarding.
he is capable of holding a pony puppet like you see on adobe's, but you will have more tools to fiddle with it.
compared to toonboom's deformer tool, opentoonz haves the "plastic tool" wich looks more like after effects's puppet tool for animation
but unlikely toonboom, opentoonz deals with both, vector and bitmap, you can animate bitmaps with the plastic tool, but not in toonboom's deformer tool