Beer Run is awesome.
I have an idea and I know you won't read it since I gave an email to all your staff and used twitter to give you an idea not to mention pm you on newgrounds so here it goes.
There is this awesome free and open source 2D animation software called Synfig. The Linux version is awesome. There is a windows version but its dated here is the windows version http://www.synfig.org/cms/en/download/stable and here is the state of the art Linux version http://download.tuxfamily.org/synfig/packages/binaries/ .To see what its capable of go here http://morevnaproject.org/ .
Currently they are busy creating the next stable version which will be available for Linux,Mac and Windows which will be released in April.
http://www.synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4168