Amateur animators and procrastinators alike will love DoInk, a free web tool that makes it simple and fun to spend countless hours creating sophisticated animations. Find out more about DoInk, and watch a couple of animations (including an extremely impressive one made by me, ha), after the jump.

Even if you’ve never animated before, it doesn’t matter, since the DoInk application is exceedingly user-friendly. You can use the MS Paint-like drawing tools to create your animations from scratch, or just pull a pre-existing animation from the substantial user-created database. Animating itself is easy: as you work on each new frame, all prior frames will show themselves as “ghosts” so you know what you need to draw next. When you’ve finished, you can share it with the DoInk community, or if you have bigger ambitions to show your work to the masses, you can email it to your friends, embed it on your blog/Facebook/MySpace, or post it directly to YouTube.

Check out my animation below. I might just be the next Matt Groening. Eh? Eh??

Sally Dances on the Moon by julialit, made at DoInk.com

Sally the Stick Figure was a fiery redhead with big dreams of becoming both a classical dancer and an astronaut. She finally realized both with the new NASA Dance program, where she was able to dance on the moon and make a new friend in the process (uh, that’s supposed to be an alien following her).

And check out a couple of other user-created animations from the site:

got doink on da brain!? by gamagama, made at DoInk.com

Chocolate Escapes by YoBananaAnj, made at DoInk.com

Posting your own DoInk-created animations below is encouraged x100.

[via Webware]