If you have any ethics or care about security, a free(libre) license software is really the only way to go. So for my IT students I recommend GIMP and Inkscape. The learning slope is not too steep. They have pretty much all the graphics power you ever need, and for scripting I would use either Imagemagick or the Python image manipulation libraries.
Then I would ask, why would anyone ever risk using closed source proprietary software? With the FLOSS alternatives there is no reason.
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GIMP is pretty good. there is also a graphics scripting language called processing
which is pretty cool
while we are at it, lets add Canva into the Mix
Animation : there is Opentoons
Color Grading : DavinciResolve15 by BlackMagic
With version 15, it can do effects composition, audio composition 3D text etc.. very cool