Summary
Editing is just as important as animating. Whether you decide to use a free or premium editor, the techniques you use will ultimately be the same. What's important is for you to find a consistent flow, just like you did with your character designs and animation techniques. Once you perfect this, it will stick with you for the rest of your life. The hardest part will be finding your audience. As long as you're persistent and maintain a high threshold for quality, there should be nothing stopping you from achieving your dreams of becoming an animator.
Although you may not want to hear this, there is a very good chance that things will start off slow when trying to push your content on the Web. YouTube is a big place with countless videos, and it takes a lot of effort to stand out. This is especially true with how fast interests or trends change. A video that is a viral sensation one day can be thrown aside the next when something new comes along. You may encounter people who give you...