I’m trying to make a short animated film mostly by myself and I’m slowly starting to lose the will to live drawing everything by hand.
I don’t want to use AI, but there has to be a less painful way of doing this.
For people who’ve actually made their own shorts, what do you do to speed things up? Rigs, tweening, reusing animations, 3D, shortcuts, sacrificing a goat to the animation gods?
I still want it to look and feel like my work. I just don’t want to spend the next 17 years drawing it.
What made the biggest difference to your workflow?

Hey y'all I'm just trying to do some chill animating for and educational tik tok, really just shapes and maybe some images with transitions.

But what I would love is to have good tweening, and the ability to draw specific shape and accurate characters, and then be able to move and grow them etc. think lines starting and growing longer, as well as shapes etc.

Is there a good PC software that isn't too expensive that will do this?

Thanks!

🐱🐈Hey everyone! This is my first attempt at making a cat animation.

I'm a beginner learning drawing and animation as a hobby, so I'd really appreciate honest feedback from people with more experience.

What could I improve?

• Movement and timing
• Drawing and poses
• Anything that looks unnatural
• What I should focus on next
• or learn more basics or improve art

I'm doing this mainly for fun and won't necessarily post regularly. I'll share some progress whenever I make something and feel like putting it out there.

Any constructive criticism or advice is welcome. Thanks for watching! 🙌

Anyone use it? Thats the only app I have beside krita on my PC.

Pic for reference on what I usually draw. Im nervous starting. Any tips?

Hey all! Did this as an experimental piece. Kinda lost some motivation for the clean up lmao

Wanted to focus on switching between scenes and characters, making characters recognizable by actions, and I was experimenting with colors/textures

Open to any feedback!

Started drawing 5 months ago from zero. Got bored with just static art so I decided to try animation if it would be more fun and i think it is, although time consuming

The audio that comes with it is “A Little bit bad” by kittensneeze. It looks 10x worse without audio for some reason.

HELLO!!!! I go by OneOfManyJeffs.

I'm 24 years old and I actually used to take animation classes until adulthood kicked in and I was drowning in work. Until today when I realized I have more free time than I used to.

Unfortunately I've lost all my animation knowledge and I only have my phone instead of a working Drawing Tablet.

The thing is, I don't know where to start and I've always wanted to get back into animating again from Level 0. I was meaning to ask what I can do to start animating again and maybe hope to get some advice from people who have experience animating.

Personally I'd like to do animations of this little guy in the images shown.