Software for Transitioning from Hand-drawn?

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Software for Transitioning from Hand-drawn?

Hello all,

Newbie here, looking for software recommendations for helping our anime production team transition from fully hand-drawn to partially hand-drawn, using software to animate the motion between the hand-drawn frames. Please excuse my ignorance as I am very new to this world. What I'm thinking is our main illustrator, whose expertise is in hand drawing with water colors, would hand-draw frames, maybe one frame for every two seconds of the anime, and then those who are adept with 2D animation software would produce the fill frames and motion in between? Do you have recommendations for the ideal software for that? I'm trying to stay with open source. I'm thinking maybe Blender / Grease Pencil? Is there a pretty steep learning curve for that? Or maybe Plastic Animation Paper? Or is that not powerful enough? Thanks, ahead of time!

- Nojiri