Are there any TV-ANIMATION geeks here?

need some help

[sidyadav]

I'm very intrested in creating Animations, specially 2d, and when I finish, I put it on DVDs and play them on my TV, it works great.
but....
I usually use Adobe Premiere for the animations, and have to do them frame by frame by frame by frame and drawing and colouring each frame is hard, so I usually do 10 sec animations only (max) :( which of course require a lot of work :(.
I'm looking for a 2d software, which is just like 3d studio MAX, where you don't have to do it frame by frame, you can just put key-frames, but I want it to create only 2d ones.

Any help would be appreciated,
Sid

[photocartoonist]

Have you tried Adobe After Effects? Using Illustrator (or FreeHand) and Photoshop to create the symbols, After Effects is an effective composition application.

And of course there's Flash and Director.