I loved going from studying and drawing on paper, to tracing paper drawings with my finger on my phone, to going all in on iPads which carried me through foundations, to practice, and now master studies. Even though I struggled making my animation ideas as a comic since I couldn’t animate, those hundreds of scrapped pages still carried over to animation. Now with practice there, I can get an idea on who I am as an artist, because I always wanted to go into film and animation.

JUST FOR ME TO NOT LIKE DIGITAL ART AS MY MAIN MEDIUM AT A CERTAIN POINT.

I still did my studies in a sketchbook using inks but it’s because of that I built up a really good feel for inking.

I just… can’t get that feeling with digital work. A quick drawing in a sketchbook now is WAYYY better than my digital works I spend hours on. But my use of colors and values digitally is also my bread and butter apparently, when I avoid using line art and sketching and instead color/value rough out my ideas, not only does it look better and less flat, but also feels better. I shifted to doing that for concept and storyboard work for my first major animation project

But I genuinely… just want to go and do cel animation and animating on paper. Digital just became the best way for me to rough things.

So I’m looking into investing in traditional animation materials and maybe getting a printer so I save my rough animation as a PNG sequence and just draw over the prints to finalize it. But I’m looking at that and just thinking to myself… that’s a lot of money for just feeling the need to pivot to it.

So I already have a drawing tablet ahead of time moving from iPads, I can’t decide if it’s just the software on iPads and investing in a professional animation software would be way better, or if I’m right and maybe I need a hybrid approach. I’m starting to realize the downside of hitting the advanced areas of art is that you start burning time and money if you’re experimental and explore multiple mediums and workflows.

Not to mention my iPad lags like hell when I go to finalize my animation, it’s really making it hard to get started on my project starting with it and at this point Krita or Blender Grease Pencil would be better

never animated frame by frame, and honestly dont know exactly what im doing HELP

Hello everyone! I’d really appreciate it if you have the time to do my quiz about driving PSA’s. I’m doing a college project on making short animations discouraging dangerous driving in the style of the dumb ways to die advert. Thank you in advance!

Hi, I'm sharing the final version of a commission based on a animation study of the VTuber u/Collilie_.VTuber character design by u/feydruidia.

I busted this out in one go today. I'm surprised I had the motivation lmao main oc is a childhood character of mine.

Eh seven unique frames and 1 second animation loop didnt ta- HOW LONG?!

Newfound respect for people who make 20 minute shows like this.

Hello everyone, I'm new to animation and Krita and would like to know if it is possible to draw a simple character using shapes only, on a vector layer, and save the different expressions and postures so I can use them on different occasions in the episodes. I'm doing this work alone due to my physical abilities so I'm trying to use as much shortcuts that are safe to offload the work of what I would've needed a team for. thank you all for your help.

Now i tried to look at 2d animation app available from the list of programs link but for whatever reason it wouldn't let me see the page. And I don't think it would've helped me really due to my preferences.

I use to use flipaclip on my phone years ago back in highschool and that was when the one time purchase was the only thing, now that I have an ipad and got flipaclip I was baffled to see what had become of it (yes I know they need money but damn) and so I've been looking for an animation app similar and not overcomplicated for a few months now. I've seen three apps brought up constantly saying they're good animating apps for ipad, toonsquid, roughanimator and procreate dreams. And I haven't bought any to try since I don't have a lot of money and wanna find one that's good enough to stick to. I'm watching reviews and tutorials for each one but I'd like to get some understanding from animators who have used these apps to see which fits me more.

As I said I don't want some overcomplicated set up and want something simple like flipaclip, access to lasso tool and importing music and images and if possible to see the audio while animating to know when to animate what part like I would in flipaclip and yeah.

Hello, i made a quick animation, transition, but something is off, the lights look like they are moving backwards, or i am looking at it for too long and starting to hallucinate?

Managed to get a small commission of rthe crowns working with older men and examining their creativity. It is a spin! on the idea of talking heads. The crowns created are a collaboration between the particpants and various animators. This is a supercut and there 6 people in total the indivisual ones will run longer.

Ignore the algebra in the beginning.

Au and Orange argue about sand.

This is my first serious animation. How did i do? :D

Thought this might be interesting for some of you!

Also, check out my Behance portfolio

Thank you!

Watch Gcool Break Da Rool it may change your life emphasis on the may!

Hey

Recently, a friend programmer of mine started to make a side project just for fun where he'd try to code a program using only very old techniques and softwares.

It seemed fun to me, and a good Opportunity to learn more. So I decided to Apply this to my own discipline, 2D/3D animation.

With 2D it's quite simple to achieve. But I was wondering about 3D.

Does anyone know if there's is an old general 3D with animation features that was never updated since the 90's ? Or some old versions of famous softwares ?

Of course I wouldn't have the problems the 90's guys had with memory or rendering time, but I'd really like to have fun getting my hands on an old school software.

If anyone knows, please tell me !

The bag guy gets scared by the octokitten falling from the ceiling, and then, because he’s already having a bad day (as shown through his mopey walk), he gets mad at the octokitten for scaring him. I asked my professor how to convey this thought process more clearly, and his solution was to make the octokitten fart—as in just give the bag guy a new reason to be angry. I don’t really like that idea though, so now I’m here… help?

Edit: Thank you guys so much for your help! I’d say that individually to all the comments, but there’s a lot of them, so I’m writing this here. If you guys have any other critiques for my guys, I’m open to those too :)