Animation shareware suggestions?

[stroker]

My 9 year old daughter loves Five Nights at Freddie's videos on YouTube. She wants to learn how to do animation. I'm not interested in sinking a ton of money into a computer and software but I'd like to encourage her interest if it costs a few hundred bucks. Can anyone make a recommendation? Her current desktop runs on Linux but I'm expecting I'll have to go either Windows or Apple on a new box for this...

[cameraman]

First thing to check is do any of your kids attend a school with access to Adobe Creative Suite? Some schools do and if that is available that is the route you should take. I work at a University so I have access thru work.

[nrc]

There's a tool called "OpenShot" but I don't really know how suited it is to animation.

https://www.openshot.org/

[stroker]

Thanks for the suggestions!