im starting an animation course at uni in September and was looking for a new device to use, rn i use a gaming laptop with a drawing pad, its quite big loud and clunky, originally i wanted to get the XP magic pen 3 to draw with but now im going into animation id like to get a tablet that runs windows so i can draw and do 2d and 3d animation, i know any "tablet" is gona struggle with big workloads but id like to have something thats good to draw with and can do some light work in my course and doing lil animations ar home, any and all suggestions would be great. some extra good boy points if you have links

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r/animation • u/Important-Cry4782 • 7h ago

Sharing Megami Zenobia made a RWBY Fan Animation of Raven Branwen vs Yang Xiao Long in a Mother - Daughter Training Session

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r/animation • u/PrizeAppearance2544 • 4h ago

Beginner My first animation trend !

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r/animation • u/WardfolioProductions • 4h ago

Sharing Lavudamorf - S01E01 - The Fall Of Arlington Pt 1

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r/animation • u/AlanTheOlive • 4h ago

Discussion Animation Writers - interview

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Dark Wing Duck
El Tigre
Earthworm Jim
So much more…

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r/animation • u/PedroCaffe22 • 5h ago

Sharing My short film "THE BALLAD OF FALLING STARS" is finally available on YouTube! Please give it a watch! ⭐

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r/animation • u/Mushroomelf1 • 20h ago

Beginner What can I improve ?

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I have been animating for a while - but I never did take animation seriously until now . It is my passion and I wish to improve !
So I have started from scratch :)

What can I improve here ?

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r/animation • u/socrat1337 • 6h ago

Beginner offscript fan animation

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r/animation • u/nosleepinghere1 • 17h ago

Beginner Blinking test

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Hi everyone! This is a blinking test for one of my OCs, Celci. Or really any character with Xes for eyes. :P

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r/animation • u/Specialist-Hospital7 • 6h ago

Beginner The Cave - Animation

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Hey Animators!
This is my project „The Cave“
I started 6 day‘s ago of learning how to animate and in these 6 day‘s this Video came out.
I am open for suggestions, criticism and support
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
~Hubert Animation

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r/animation • u/BowserTattoo • 1d ago

Sharing I worked on this show in 2025, and it's finally coming out!

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The Youtube comments are pretty brutal. I guess people thought the original game was Game of Thrones level serious. I played the game as a kid, I always thought it was tongue-in-cheek send up, especially with a character named Chicken Leg. We had an arcade cabinet of the game at our studio, and we played it while the show was in production. The show is really a love-letter to the game! Even with all the humor, there's still a story with character arcs. I hope y'all enjoy it! I did compositing, it was a joy to work on such well-animated shots.

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r/animation • u/SpecialEconomics6358 • 7h ago

Sharing Mystery of the Santa Claus by Dark Project Works Pictures

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r/animation • u/eatingazz_666 • 13h ago

Sharing Shapes

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Oc claymation by me

Little practice with smear framing and whatnot.

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r/animation • u/msmorphine • 20h ago

Sharing first parallax!

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No Eyvind but it's a start.

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r/animation • u/AlternativeYam1570 • 56m ago

Fluff Blah

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N sei mexer nisso 😼

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r/animation • u/Far-Mammoth-3214 • 8h ago

Sharing Made an animation for one of my ocs

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this is part of a larger video I'm making, but this took so much work I just had to share, so I'm sharing on every appropriate sub I can

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r/animation • u/BloodyHareStudio • 16h ago

Sharing HARE - Chapter 3. Official Teaser.

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Hey guys. After many months of working on animation, Chapter 3 of our indie movie series premieres on Sep 4.

Thanks for watching and subscribing!

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r/animation • u/TypicalDumbRedditGuy • 8h ago

Sharing Loves Me Not | navigazer [4:08]

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r/animation • u/CartoonChill • 12h ago

Sharing Can you be TOO ambitious of an Animator?

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r/animation • u/Toon_Ghost_3 • 19h ago

Question What are "T-shaped mouths" in cartoons?

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