That and people's attention spans on the web are short.
Here's my advice to the OPer. I've done a few web-series and I have found that the shorter the episode is, the better. I always try to make each episode under 10 minutes because, let's face it, most people's attention spans on the internet are short and unless they REALLY like it, they aren't going to watch a web-series that's 30 minutes an episode.
It's quite easy to learn the tools, yes. But learning how to use the software and learning how to do good animation are two very different things.
It took me maybe a month to totally figure out the basics of the program.
It's in the high hundreds and no, it's not easy to use imo. I find it terribly clunky and hard to do good animation in it.
Flash is a web-design program that people are basically forcing to do character animation. A lot of it looks great but you have to take leaps and bounds to make it work right. It's not something created purely for animation like Anime Studio is.
Anime Studio, in my opinion, from an animation perspective, does everything Flash can do and it does it better. It's also cheaper (the pro version is only $200 and the basic version is $50... compare that to Flash which is what... $700 now?) and more animator-friendly.
