>Basic programshttps://krita.org/https://www.blender.org/ (Grease Pencil)https://flipanim.com/https://gifpaint.com/https://www.wickeditor.com/editor/https://opentoonz.github.io/e/https://www.synfig.org/https://motorpen.comhttps://tupitube.com/https://youtube.com/shorts/b4t-bS6zdUo?si=y1oY-ZGhK9Vzw6ZD>Where should (you) start?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4&t=674s [Embed] [Embed] [Embed] [Embed] [Open]https://www.mediafire.com/file/cqz7iwex4mtzidu/ <---- [The Animator's Survival Kit Video course]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuNW9vLUxu4 [Embed] [Embed] <---- [The Animator's Survival Kit Video course]http://www.animatorisland.com/51-great-animation-exercises-to-master/https://bitey.com/pages/fx <---- [2D effects animation course:]>Build your fundamentalshttps://www.animationmeat.com/https://www.posemaniacs.com/https://quickposes.com/https://line-of-action.com/https://www.youtube.com/@ProkoTV>Resources, Reference and Suchhttps://www.drawabox.com/https://line-of-action.com/https://vimeo.com/groups/anirefhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvspTjApofA2Yg3i10gTdQhttp://www.rhinohouse.com/https://www.sakugabooru.com/posthttps://www.catsuka.com/gengal/artworks/https://setteidreams.net/settei/https://setteidreams.net/artbooks/https://setteidreams.net/color-designs/https://www.olm.co.jp/rd/categories/opentoolshttps://characterdesignreferences.com/https://film-grab.com/>Sakuga Extended: Add ons to play video on sakugabooru frame-by-framehttps://www.sakugabooru.com/forum/show/964Mozilla Firefox:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sakuga-extended/Chromium based browsers:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sakuga-extended/khmnmdaghmhkcbooicndamlhkcmpklmcBe reasonable with your criticismPlease bump with own worksAvoid excessive repostsPrevious thread : >>7989810
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>>8040853That robot breast animation was good. Good choice
>>8040861very low voter turnout this time so i took the ones that had 2 votes n compiled em together
Guys what features should a frame by frame video player have besides the basics? All the ones on Android are buggy and thus I can't reliably jump between frames and I can't carry my pc every to use keyframe mP so I have decided to just vibecode my own app to be specialized for my needs.
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/animate-like-pro-with-moho-pro-software?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_7_layout_type_threes_tile_index_3_c_animatelikeprowithmohopro_softwarebundle
Whats better CSP or TVpaint
Anyone has any resources about drawing with vectors in open toonz or in general? I've never used vectors before but seems this is the only wayt o make a drawing looks good.
>>8041208Its slow as shit though and every mistake will be way more noticeable
A stupid lil walk cycle I made of Gobline. I would've improved on it more if I had enough time, but I only had an hour to do it. I'll probably work on it more when I get the chance
>>8041352thats a lot of details for one hour, impressive
Wip storyboard from Sept, 9th.
>>8040910i'd say the ability to change video speeds but via frame rates rather than the generic x0.25 x0.5 x0.75 x2 that and manually jumping 1 frame front or backthats about the only eature i'd wanna see>>8041159TVPaint is pretty banginhaven't gotten around to trying CSP yet so wouldn't know>>8041208none that i can recall off the back of my head do post some here if you find any I'll add em to the pasta>>8041352Rotund guy >>8041840gotta respect your dedication to the bit manvery persistent of you
more floaty wizard.
>>8041857What bit?
>have never animated anything before>trying to currently work on a 3:30 minute animation>am a horrible procrastinator and slow at drawing>the protagonist's design has to be relatively detailed because of all his equipmentI have bitten more than I can chew
>>8041859that's looking pretty cool
I kinda know what these are for, I just never found a proper need for them.>>8041840Nice, reminds me of that scene from Weird Science. Hope you get the keyframes done soon. ^^
>>8041890Atlantis vibe. I like it
>>8041919thanks. I really like Mike Mignola's style, plus I thought that keeping everything angular would also help reduce the pain of having to draw a million circles
>>8041890look towards tf2 concept for inspiration on minimizing some of those details my guy>>8041921>reduce the pain of having to draw a million circlesvery smart choice curves are notoriously difficult to maintain looking right in animation
>>8041208I give up, drawing with vectors is hard as shit.What else can I do to make my drawings look smooth? When I try to draw on a raster layer my lines come up a jittery and squiggly.
>>8042142anon-san the quality you describing as "smooth" is just a highrez drawing with anti-aliasingits the merge thing pixels do to obsecure the inherent limitation of square grid screens by reserving ~1-2 pixel threshold around hard color changes with a mix/merge of the two colorsThe higher the resolution of the image the smoother/more seamless the transition from one color to anotheri'd reccommend doubling your current project resolution it should ease some of that jittering also use a brush with anti-aliasing preset but beware it will maket bucket tool coloring a real paini'd reccomend watching the dong chang channel's breakdown of anime compositing.tldr of the japanese method is they use brushes without anti-aliasing and do the coloring in that state.Then they add the anti-aliasing in post via smoothing filters to achieve that finished smooth lookultimately it all comes down to File resolutionhigh rez = more space to obsecure color merge hence crispier lines lower rez = less space hence choppier/jarring lines
>>8040853Oh hey I got featured.Here's the complete one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55jWbkmX3lcAnyway working on another one now. I know most people won't like how I do things, but that's okay.
>>8041902I just looked that up & holy crap there’s parallels!
I also tried doing something with Brusha at one point, her sweater was gonna go flying upward & her bra would've eventually gave out.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fxltBqAtQGjhF6dWIIHZuO_3DM7zVpWk/view
WIP
>>8041890Atp make a 3D model in Blender
>>8041890Seconding the other guy. Unless you really want to dedicate the time finishing learning rigged 2d animation and how to makee and rig a character or 3d animation would be a huge time save
>>8042457This never got animated so if anyone wants feel free to use the idea.
>>8042847no thanks
>>8042673creepy-cute
made this for a friend
>>8042950Aura
>>8042457is that a plant girl
>>8042674>>8042677I may have never animated anything before but I know even less about Blender. What I'm thinking of is using every excuse to avoid having to draw him in full body poses with his full equipment. So, I'll include a bunch of skewed angles, scenes from the past with regular clothes, and also keep the camera away whenever he is sprinting so that the protagonist can both look faster and less detailed. He also broods a lot so I can just draw him standing there doing nothing and it fits his character.
>>8042950now that's epic
>>8042935I FISH FOR THESE COMPLIMENTS
>>8043151Im not gonna claim that Blender is easy, but it's a lot easier than I thought it would be, and with near limitless youtube tutorials as well.
random looping doodle
WIP board for my first nsfw cartoon, give feedback plshttps://files.catbox.moe/mpvb3x.mov
>>8043221this is scratching an itch i didnt know i had,
>>8043288looks promising so far, though it goes from seduction to sex too quickly
I've realized that I absolutely hate doing personal workI hate making my own animations, I hate my ideas, I hate my charactersYet when I join projects I do my best work and draw others styles perfectlyBut right now I'm lacking any project to work on, and it's driving me insane. I want to workHow do I get over this
>>8043371I feel you, have you tried fan animations or doing requests from drawthreads?
>>8043436SOVL
>>8043456Tired + Lazy = SOVL?Good to know
Check it!
>>8043524big spin
This one was too big to post in the thread so you'll have to go to Bluesky..https://bsky.app/profile/voxelvixen69.bsky.social/post/3mvtdj5nrj225
chopply made gif for a /i/ thread I put too much thought for>>835930
>>8044645(fuck I forgot how to link threads from other boards)
>>8044648you'd do something like >>>/i/835930extra > followed with /board/ and the postID
>>8044716thanks so much
has anyone tried / is using Umoupen?
having a hard time deciding what idea to commit to
>>8044833yes i tried it. this is the result.
>>8043740what
big but
>>8045431>>8045049D-damn
https://wizchan.org/lounge/src/1789706660201.mp4My laziest animation yet>>8042950Pretty good, especially the hand smears. ^^
>>8040853>>8040854Hey Kott, I was listening to this song and I had to do your girl dancing to it, of course she dances infinitely better in my head lol, but I had to do a quickie with her. I wanted her to move her sexy ass too, but, it was going to be at least twice the amount of time and effort (even when doing it as simple and crude as this), so her swinging ass will stay in my head xD.Be blessed animation godThings Can Only Get Better (1985):> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCF-lrWbLVU
>>8043565>>8045431>>8045577hell yeah
>>8045577yoou've really helped me break through my artblock
>>8041890This is interesting. If this is your first animation you should probably start with something smaller. Feeling overwhelmed is normal. I have several ideas I will probably never get to. You might want to try and make your big idea a comic first.
bump baby im back to daily poasting
every year I hear about don bluth university and it makes me sad because I love animation so much and I wish I could learn from don but going to his school is like the price of a used car and I know by the time I can afford to go to his school his graduates are probably gonna be teaching it instead
>>8047125Yes, being taught by him is mostly a pipe dream.But I think you should still go for it if not read his autobiography if you're super serious about animation."I was raised to believe that you dont look for reasons why you can't do something. You find reasons that you can" -Bluth, My animated life, pg. 198
>the same shit for the price of a used video game
bumperonnie
>>8041352I love this little guy
has anyone here used toonsquid, and if so do you have any advice for good brush settings?been trying to get used to that program over Procreate, but really struggling to make the brushes not feel janky and to make nice smooth lines. I asked for advice in the official github forum but didn't get any replies
>>8047129Based, I love Don
bump
>>8047125Oh they discounted it to 7.5k this year which is almost worth it. That said I've hear literally zero good things about it online, and Don is older than our last two presidents by a decade...If you are up for 1:1 mentorship there are quite a few disney/dreamworks animators who will offer it to you cheap.
>>8048476Having a dislocated spine sounds excruciating
>>8048491my bad, will do better next time
Study from ref
boomp
Sometimes I ask myself how much of this thing is just locking the fuck in and drawing 10 pictures a second and how much is finding ways to make people think parts of the image are moving more than they actually are
On my 5th month of not drawing anything
>>8049196congrats!
>>8045431
I need a mouse.
I found a cartoon I drew from when I was a kid xixi I think everyone who ever read it is gone so its probably a cursed image sorry
>>8050007have mine
>>8050010bruh you doomed us all
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>>8050011Cute! how did you catch it?>they're so fast!
>>8050012oh my gosh; it may be
>>8050014maybe....(nah I scooped this image off google, but if you're looking for mouses, look off online in say, Best Buy, I'm not too familiar with murican tech stores)
>>8050017Or a pet store.
>>8042179https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIIn2xK3oJQFinished it now.Wanted it to be simple, like paper puppets. Not sure if I succeeded.
Femblot is funny.. Femblot is dreamy..
>>8043565How do you slide like that? What software is this?
Am I crazy as an animator for being excited to see AI being used like this?https://x.com/knightama/status/2103574269133468003This to me feels like what the movie Klaus did, where the entire movie was handdrawn 2d animation, but they created a program that could apply shadowing to a frame when you manually put in the right calculations for where it should be. They applied shadowing that way for every frame of animation, and it created consistent and detailed shadowing that would simply not have been possible to do by hand without the process taking 10 years. Using AI in this way, feels like an automated way of doing what SPA Studios did with shadowing in Klaus.If this was refined and made mainstream, it could mean SO much time and money that would usually be spent on outsourcing work to Indians and Koreans would be saved from the budget of 2d animation. Not only that, indie animators would be able to make much longer animations by themselves without needing to rely on investor demands to afford outsourcing.
>>8050806
>>8050806Aside from the AI post still having that gross uncanny feeling and how I don't want to look at it long enough to see what extra shit it's doing to cause that, while earlier on I myself suggested that something like this might be useful (although in far more limited form) diffusion as a concept feels like a dead end to me.I think something closer to a 'digital robot' (I'm no /g/fag I don't know proper the terms) would be more the direction I'd prefer to see. Where it's something that can navigate a canvas or timeline with limited output ability, using the fill tool to colour things based on a model sheet. An auto clicker with a guidance system.
>>8050811these two are not comparing the same frame
>>8048399I agree. Why go for a director anyway? Usually the best worker is not the director but some grunt/low-ranking manager, that's just how it is, you don't ask the owner of a coal mining business about how to mine coal properly. Somebody can be really exceptional manager and still lack knowledge about the actual work, which is what you want when you study animation. I know that he was a grunt at some point as well but he did not become famous thanks to being the best animator around
a lot less animating in these threads recently
>>8050806My biggest issue with AI isn't that the results look like shit, it's that the users are retarded and I don't trust them. they regularly leave abhorrent bullshit and glaring errors in that not only any human artist would have fixed or not made in the first place, but the model itself would probably fix if you told it to and gave it ten minutes and maybe five extra bucks in tokens.Take the other weekly AI slop with the umbrella guy https://x.com/antrofrog_/status/2103854300799565967 most of the problems stem from the prompter being an illiterate ape with no soul or whimsy. He's using a model smart enough to have object permanence, not switch artstyles every four seconds, give the guy a third arm for no reason and such, and he could either fix all the bullshit still going on in the video in a few extra passes or work around it by changing shots for ones AI is capable of the same way a horror movie uses camera trick to hide the fact the monster looks like shit but this orangutan just ships this as is and hopes you're also too stupid to notice.The sameway codefags have to write compilers despite nobody having needed to write a compiler himself since the 80s just to have an idea how computers actually work, I believe any AI artist who hasn't spent a few months drawing walk cycles and basic shit and looks for a job needs to be shot, skinned and sodomized in any order the animation director sees fit.But if you start putting AI in stuff to "lower budgets" the unsodomized will unfortunately start getting jobs and fuck everything up. Even for indie shit, they'll saturate the market with slop. Take those fruit brainrots, I'm sure some of them are watchable because the guy spent ten minutes to write a plot instead of being a literal slave in a mauritanian content farm but nobody's watching all the slop just to get to his.
>>8051070I blame the season https://eddsworld.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Edds-guide-1.png
>>8051308Fuck off retard
>>8051070I'm waiting on my pen to finally leave florida
>>8051070sorry my dude, my only recent works would risk me getting banned for being blatantly furry nsfw
>>8051308That is a very fair take and I agree, I also don't want AI ran by people who don't know shit about art and drawing taking over the animation industry. What I really want is for people who do know how to draw and animate, to be able to utilize AI for the things that's holding them back from making larger projects. I think training an AI on your own art and to follow your handdrawn keyframes and to perhaps also use colored and shaded keyframes as guides for it to color and shade the rest of the animation, would ethically and aesthetically be the best possible use of AI to streamline the creation process and cut down on the need for outsourcing such tasks.My fear however, is that due to the widespread fear and disdain for AI usage in the west... the east is going to be the ones experimenting the most effective AI usage for animation. If the west aren't the first ones to set the standard for efficient and arguably ethical use of AI to make popular 2d animated movies and television shows, then those standards might instead be set by Japan/China/Korea who cares much less about ethical usage and more about efficient usage. Basically if we refuse to use AI because we don't want AI slop to dominate the market, then I think the Eastern countries will use AI slop to dominate the market on their terms and we will have to start copying what they're doing or we won't be able to compete with them.
Storyboard Pro is absolute dogshitHad to fix up a colleague's "animatic" file for a deadline and gosh this montrosity is so fucking unwieldly to uselike t fuck you mean there is only one layer in the timrlinr and bgs are all sequestered into the indivifual "panels"idk why they insist on using this software for animatics manFlash in infinitely superior in usability even if its brush is a uncoordinating prick
Can AIniggers just buy an ad alreadywe actually animate things itt instead of waxing poetic about gay AI ethic n faggot philosophy
>>8052291id be more sympathetic if they at least posted projects they were working on even if theyre slop instead of "guys what do we think about current ai conundrum?????"
>>8052306its just shills manthese niggers are insecure about the ai bubble poppingso they use bots to fake mass interest in this shit so daddy american government won't stop the flow of subsidizationsy think any of this data centre shit is profitable on its own?they need to feign their importance as "le cutting edge strategic tech" so america keeps throwing taxpayer's money at them
>>8052260>like t fuck you mean there is only one layer in the timrlinrFeels like this is a very rudimentary mistake with animation programs that try to be intuitive for beginners. Base Procreate's animation tool drives me insane for the same reason
>>8052291I'm not trying to advertise AI, I don't even particularly like using AI in its current state because I think it's too limited (and quite frankly I don't think it's as fun to write prompts as it is to draw shit).I just wanted to discuss the potential of AI in a near future being used to solve a longstanding problem in the 2d animation industry, which is the fact that shading/coloring/cleanup/inbetweens is extremely time consuming low-skill work. It's why Disney and Dreamworks abandoned 2d animation in favor of 3d, and outsourcing this kind of work is why indie animators can't make larger projects by themselves without needing an investor which comes with strings attached. I also fear that if western companies don't set the standard for efficient use of AI to make 2d animation cheaper while still maintaining the human element of keyframing and storyboarding etc... then the standard for AI usage for animation might instead be set by China/Korea/Japan which are much less concerned with ethics and much more focused on efficiency.>>8052306>>8052308I can't post my WIP because it's furry gay sex lol, here's a catbox though>https://files.catbox.moe/qkr7c3.gif>these niggers are insecure about the ai bubble poppingQuite the contrary, I think it will be great when the AI bubble pops because then companies will stop trying to force AI where it makes no fucking sense and making AI look retarded because it's not a magical fix all. It will then more appropriately be applied well in the areas it can actually be used efficiently and to help people achieve things that wasn't possible to do before. The Dot.Com bubble is a good example. Not every single website ever created is profitable and worth investing in or even has any good reason to exist, but that doesn't mean ALL websites are worthless.
>>8052338its not even an animation softwareits call storyboard pro cuz its for storyboards n most of my collegues are trained in thatthe issue is these nigga grew too complacent with making board n never bothered doing the timing n camera work in their storyboard itself aka they've never done animatics beforeso they keep insisting on using a software that was principally designed for storyboard not animaticsshit is super frustrating to get done right in that softareas much as i hate adobe animate its king when it comes to quick n easy animatics
>>8052347>discuss the potential of AIstopped reading thereyou can do that in the ai gen on /trash/ with fellow coomers (only one who seem to care for ai advancements for their kiddie porno gens)as you might've noticed noone here's interested in engaging with your dialogue consider this topic settled take your leave nigger
>>8052359Ok retard, so you're just a faggot troll then
talk about a derailed montage
2:1 ratio of replies to images btw
>>8050391That's basic CSP camera movement
CSP or Krita?You know... besides one being free and not the other
>>8052718Well I switched from Krita to CSP so you know...I do think Krita is more intuitive at first so it's easier to jump in and make animations right away while CSP has a bit of a learning curve even though I think at this point I'd find CSP easier.
>>8052718making any animation longer than 24 frames requires the 300 dollar version of cspfor that reason alone krita mogsunless you wanna pirate csp in which case idk its just a matter of personal preferencetheyre both pretty basic art software, if you can make good stuff in one you can make good stuff in all of them
>>8052790>making any animation longer than 24 frames requires the 300 dollar version of cspjesus, I get locking some features behind premium but basic fucking functionality is absurd
>>8053016yeah its pretty fuckin stupidcome to think of it animation is very often gatekept behind paid programs. photoshop, flash, toonboom, csp. theyre all after your fucking cash and they all do the same shit more or less. thank fuck for krita and other free programs that give you the means to animate digitally free of charge. krita isnt perfect by any means but it werks just fine for my needs
>>8053169I'm not completely against animation programs being paid, developers have to eat too after all. I just don't like when they're really fucking expensive, or on a subscription model. I also can't even comprehend the idea of selling a program that locks basic functionality behind an additional payment barrier. I'm fine with there being a free version and a paid version (functional), I think it's disgusting when there's a paid version and a paid version (functional).
>>8052790>>8052718CSP and Krita are illustration softwares first that also can animateumoupen mogs both, it's animation software first
>>8050806>>8050811where will they get their input to feed their slop makers when no traditional animators exist anymore?
>>8053428/ic/ animation general?
working on some animations for a game i'm planning to do, give feedback pls
bump the second
>>8053395literally whats the difference, unless youre doing super tweeny animation it doesnt matter what the software's main priority is.
>>8053603>>8053604so cute…;_;every one of your idea-sequences are pure perfection that ease the soul
>>8053678various things, clunky slow playbacks, weird frame management stuff, pgotoshop, csp and krita are terrible for that, it's like using microsoft powerpoint for animating. none of those were built up as animation software
>>8053695: DDDits very relaxing to make em toobrings joy to the soul
>>8053718I never tried anything but CSP but I can confirm the weird playback bug there. I got a pirated premium one and it works perfectly when drawing, no frames restrictions either, but when I do playbacks to check how the animation is flowing that shit slows down and skips frames, so I have to actually save it as a gif just to see what the actual end result looks like. Other than this I personally don't have any complaints
Guys, i draw comics, i'm not interested in animation. Would be nightmare for my ego. I often see animation frames and they are such great illustration, such a shame they only seen for a split second.I love the clean style, little line variation, little hatching, eyes and hair is drawn differently compared to manga. Manga is less clean most of the time.But i want to learn some of the anime (like anime key frames not pixiv anime) style to implement in my manga.Is it just experience, do you have to animate to learn that, or what can i do?
>>8056209>Manga is less clean most of the time.You have to be trolling
>>8056213Why are you like that?
>>8044645Hello again:I've just posted a new GIF i worked on for a week until now, for a quest thread in /i/ that's only kept alive by me ATP, and I wasn't the OPfinally gone into the part where the next anon decides what happens next, as it should :P>>>/i/835930>>>/i/837699
>>8053548what genre of game are you working on?
Boomp
>>8057196forgor to post this one before
>>8057199neato(still waiting for a reply on the slow ass thread I've linked :P )
>>8057289what thread do you mean?
>>8057405cute
>>8057379Woops, forgot to link that thread lmao>>>/i/837699
>>8043565Do you have a page?This is incredible, hoping to see more.
>>8057405What is happening?
>>8057756Intriguing isn't it? Welcome to my ethos..
>>8057766more like psychosis
I posted this one on /i/https://drive.google.com/file/d/13AglX3UIzTURVxHbugc2NsTlUQKKV2sm/view
Has anyone here been using Umoupen? I'm having a very hard time finding experiences of people who've used it online - I suppose partially so because it came out quite recently, but still 3 months should be enough for at least a little bit of organic internet traffic on the topic for a software of this kind, right?
>>8058052Ok my bad I see these posts here>>8044833>>8053395>>8045049but that's still quite sparse. Would you guys recommend the software over Tahoma2D for example? Why's Tahoma not linked in the OP anyway?
How often will you guys catch an error on a single frame and say "fuck it" and not bother to fix it? I'm well past my perfectionist phase at this point to the point where if I notice a minor error only after scrubbing through the same frames a million times I won't bother addressing it since theres a 99.9% chance no one will catch it regardless. I can't be bothered anymore, this hobby already asks so much patience of a man.
>>8058274I tend to skip any errors when the final product is basically finished, and those usually tend to be minor hiccups rather than gaping blemishes
>>8058274depends what kind of error,if it's a scraggly line i don't bother but if it's egregious like a leg disappearing for a frame or a weird movement i'll always fix
Slowly getting back into animation
>>8058274If its small like a speck or line I'll leave it but even sometimes when its a big error (I forgot to draw the whole character except the mouth for one frame one time) I'll still leave it out of laziness lmao.
1/2Working on a project for a forum I'm on. It requires two 3-6 second animations, one that acts as an intro and plays once, and another that loops. Here's my sketches for the opening animation. Please ignore jankiness with the water line on top. The straight lines are really just for blocking. I have 10 frames to spare on this one, what do you guys think would be the best use for them here?
>>8059051Here's the looping part, this one has 8 frames to spare. I've got some assets I'm working on like sea weed and sea grass, but I'm working on those seperately
https://youtu.be/ulQQdKOLgCA
>>8058481Cool, extending and distending.I understand. In between motivation, commitment, starting, and the process in general it IS a journey.But you can do it
Hi, I want to larp better. Do you guys have an estimate RGB value of those colored pencils used in anime keyframes? The blue, the red, the yellow, and so on. Like I want to set up something that look similar on krita, but I don't even know what to google for this.
>>8057457i'll get around to it eventually >>8058481hell yeah goated trad animator >>8059051>>8059053the difference between pencil to darker lineart is kinda ugly just stick to one ind of linework n keep it consistent or atleast gradully transition from one to another instead of flipping lineart just wilynily>>8059430surprised you got away with posting boobies on YT>>8060429try lookin at the dong chang channel for infohe's the only english speaking anime industry animator who actually shares info with us goyim
>>8040853i gif in photoshopwhat are you cunts gifing in?
>>8061540this is peak. the casual implementation of her raised arm>with overlap and preparatory movement from a very difficult angleand best of all that lovely fluid hip shift just did me in.
>>8061540>>8061716How did you do it?
>>8061716>>8061908honestly inspiration comes to me like a bolt outta the bluesomedays i can make something like this then on others i'll struggle to even pull off a walk cycle well
Welp, I'll let ya'll in on a secret.If you ever want your animations to give off vibes from the decade you were born here's one way that kinda worked for me, though it's gonna sound a bit extreme:Animate the entire thing naked (for the most part.)I'm serious, dont even wear glasses, etc. >Why?Because you were born in that decade, meaning you didn't have clothes yet, so it's like you're returning to those roots, more or less (in my opinion). You could also do it in the company of someone older than you who was around in that decade instead, but I found the former method to be just as effective if not more.With that said here's a remake of an old Richard Williams animation I made last year.Cheers.
>>8057709Thank you. You can see the handle in the attached animation. If you hope to see more futa, I have to disappoint you because 99% of my stuff is straight, though I do have a few lesbian and futa ideas with Quanxi waiting their time
how do I realistically find animation work if I:-don't live in LA-don't have any professional experience, but years of working volunteer animation jobs-still go to art school-have made effort applying to ever animation job online possible, and not getting any of them-am literally paying for a squarespace portfolio with my reel on it but not making any money to justify having a portfolio
>>8062489One day my suffering will end but this day is not today>>8062501Realistically you don't. Go make some porn or something, I have never seen a happy American animator, that ship has sailed in 90s-early 00s. In the optimistic scenario where you do find a job you still end up a corpo-slave with mediocre pay, terrible working conditions and no stability whatsoever. Besides, you can see by the works in the thread that there's no industry animators around
>>8062501I think you just have to post online enough until someone likes you enough to comission work of you for their studio or you cold do porn a do round about route to that. I tried looking for animation jobs overseas and anything remote still requires you living near office so its practically impossible. And that's not mentioning that you're not just competing with their domestic talent and interns but also the best of the world and if you do get hired you're then a visa slave. If you're fortunate enough to be born in america though and really want to work in the industry just bite the bullet and go to LA or you can try one of those texas cheap not anime studios I guess. I think the French and Canadians probably have the best luck in terms of being born somewhere with jobs
>>8062501>-still go to art schoolhound you faculty like the plagueits their responsibility and obligation to get you in touch with pros and land you your first internship at a decent stuudioanimation industry is suprisingly insular small pond everyone is about 3 handshakes away from everyone else usuallyget a reputation as a good artist n that shit will carry over good will elswherealso don't try to become an "animator"have specific title in mind like "Storyboard artist" "Animatic Artist" "Software specialist" "Concept artist" "Pre-production allrounder" "BG/Layout Specialist" etc know exactly what you want outta this whole animation business
>>8062808>ts their responsibility and obligation to get you in touch with pros and land you your first internship at a decent stuudiolol no its isnt
>>8061549Krita
>>8061549krita
>>8062831I'm sorry you had shit faculty anon
>>8062838i didnt.but it still simply is not their responsibility to find youa job
>>8061549GIMP is the best gifer
>>8062880>not their responsibility to find youa job never said job dummy i meant getting you in touchYeah not the common nitwits dummiesbut usually they do scout out the gems to their buddies in the industryeither your faculty were low tier "never made it so became teachers" fags or you just never shone in their eyes enough to get mentoredeither way depressing self report on your part
>>8062885yeah i read what you wrote you dumb fucking stupid cunt and youre still wrong.ive had multiple professors offer me jobs, so fuck the fuck off.
>>8062892fair nuff anon while its not their explicit responsibility they do tend to help a homie out like how yours did : )is why i think that anon should approach their faculty for help if other options ain't working out
>>8061549gotta parrot krita
Does anybody here have experience with blender greasepaint and have tutorials they recommend? Or maybe even *shudders* Krita to blender bridge pipelines? I'd be willing to pick up that god forsaken software if its blender integration is worth the relearning of ux.
>>8062985grease pencil is dogshit dont bother. just use kritat. wasted a year+ trying to make grease pencil work to no avail
>>8062970peak humor dude lovely squash n stretchthe long shot wlak being just moving orbs for feetthe tiny dust clouds when the kid runsthe school basically swallowing the kid\the funny faces she makesthe lil shine in the end when she shrinks off into the horizonits all so peak fr fr ngl
Bump the third
a resolution that isn't a box
>>8063219Reckon the square works better?
>>8063228I think square is better, or at least easier for composition in most case since it lets you have an upright character be fully in frame while taking up most of the screen while standard video rectangle can leave a lot of extra space on the sides.Although maybe for the top one you should try having her head and mirror on the upper rule of thirds line rather the center line by having it zoomed in more or drawing them further up.
>>8063219>>8063228>>8063322this one got a suprisingly good reception on twitterfirst post to break past 30 likes in a whilehell yeah
>>8063464link your twatter
>>8063497@Kott_ChadCome say hi
>>8062970cute
anon is too talented and making me look bad and lazy
>>8063523pick up that stylus young grasshopperyou can do it im sure
>>8063534maybe... tomorrow...
>>8063602https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTHxt1XTfs
>>8063154I am just an egg, esteemed Mr. Kott...If I want my mock'ethos to be able to fight against Tezukism, I need to evolve.
Repost because I like this but don’t know the original artist.
Update from last post! any thoughts?>>8041840
>>8065887I assume it's 2s, so I would advise to change the frames in the middle to 1s to make it look like he is accelerating during the spin. Right now there's overly strong acceleration in the last half, while the actual spin is very slow
>>8064708yerp
I would like to make at least one episode of pic related, although I would like to do several. It would be a lot of work. It's a comedy I thought up.
I fixed a few small details. This is also the title card.
>mfw break 250 likes by day 2and it was a quickie done in a rush before i slept for a week daythe algorhythm gods are a real mystery man
>>8066448I'm mutual with a couple of popular artists and you make really good stuff, but I only rexeet JP artists... sorry
>>8066448>titsomg how does it all work?????
>>8066542>rexeet JP artists... sorryi learned that lesson long agoI've been posting from an american/japanese ips via vpn for the past few months to greater resultsbeing associated with india is like digital mega AIDs never making that mistake again frfrnow i wonder just how much more progress i could've gained had i done this right from the start>>8066610i've drawn her fully naked before to a lukewarm reception but put her in generic undies and bam instant win?it is what it is
>>8041352I relate a lot to this
>>8041352needs trump hair
>>8066720wdym? how those stinky jeets hold you back?
>>8066971I think he's admitting he's a larping jeet.
>>8062501Many such cases. They all lead to pic related unfortunately.
>>8066094lmaoo
>>8067067needs a tiny penis and trump hair
https://youtu.be/yKwSWY6Lia8
Hi, are there any resources on how to make smooth two-frame animation loops? How do you choose the best keyframes for the loop?
>>8066971>wdym? how those stinky jeets hold you back?yes unironicallythe xitter algorhythm segregates content by ip address and the majority of indian users are poltic-brained retards with nary a speck of appreciation for the arts(especially after indian government forced all nsfw behind the paywall) so i gotta boot into the ameri-japanese noosphere to get any enlightened folk to look at my outputits never quite as simple as post stuff = get famousfrom where and when you post also plays a big role in gaining a followingthink like how pewsiepie got a leg up by moving from country to country during his career boosting his reach across different ip rangesthe invisible hands of the market are quite visible actually
>>8067385You better be using good quality residential proxies because otherwise you're getting DOUBLE fucked by the VPN detection stomping you to the curb.
always think what i got is good and then i come here and realize just how little i actually make, god you guys are good =)
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>>8067416
again you guys are awesome>>8067418last one>>8067067love this flapping shit>>8066448i dont have to tell you but all your stiff are gems, how lomg does it take you to make these?>>8066094 wild SAM spotted =)>>8056236these are cute, i could see a whole mini series animated like this
back to fucking around in spine, trying to learn how to move things around without it looking like some cheap johnny test type garbage
>>8067421thanks for the support, thought that whole quest schtick i got myself into was pretty much forgotten lmaonice animation too
>>8067554thank you, but seriously, i gotta ask, are you formally trained? the motions in your work are fluid and your backgrounds feel fleashed out and grounded. how long on average do you take? and do you have any socials? also welcome to /ic/ =)
>>8067640>formally trainedlmao I wish, I did take on art classes during middle school, but for the most part, I was self-taught on animating characters, still a pain in le culo to draw people that don't look wonky as hell, but Paint's pixel-heavy nature is more easy to maneuver.also arquitecture being a hobby defo did help in the background work
>>8067402well the boost in engagement speaks for itself>>8067421>how lomg does it take you to make these?between 1 to 3 hours per piecebeen hit by art block for the past few days ngl
>>8067385>the xitter algorhythm segregates content by ip addressWait? Is that why my posts barely get any views or likes unless I use a fandom hashtag? Its only being show to the shitty people on my small island?
>>8067421wait, you got socials?
>>8068268How did you get so good? How many years did it take? How old are you? Do you have one those gloves? Did you use the animator's survival kit video course from the OP?I'm 25 and never really drew before
>>8068373i do, but im very inconsistent, only ever post on newgrounds =)
>>8068575Gotcha, same with me, so don't expect miraclescan I see it tho
>>8068592i'll show you mine if you show me yours =)https://wattanib.newgrounds.com/
>>8068593followed lol
https://youtu.be/uNgyDmxVjUc im back
back on the furfag bullshit lmaotrying out some new techniques and workflows to see what works best. also dicking around with spine's physics functionality. still very awkward finding the right process for animating all this shit and how to properly trim assets but its getting easier
>>8069348whoa........
>>8070539cute
Fellas it's me OP and i'd like to remind you all to back-up your filesmy negligence led to my hard drive corruptingI have potentially lostall my aw files depending on ow well the recovery goesConsider this post a CheckpointBACK-UP YOUR FILES NOW GO GO GO
>>8071394That's unfortunate. At least you can recover the finished stuff that posted here from the archives. I can't imagine losing a drive with today's prices
>>8071394Sorry to hear that.Same thing happened to me earlier this year with a USB that held a ton of things dating back to 2017.This year really had a shitty start =_=..
>>8071394backups? in this economy?
>>8071394Shit like this is why I became a traditional artist and seldom do digital, I can't afford my devices commiting seppuku on me.
Donghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7nwTFj7TfU
>>8071887ooh new dong!
spooky skellingtons babyalmost as scary as losing 2 years worth of raw files : DDD
you didn't answer my quesrions big dog
>>8071754mfw i lost more than half of all my trad art spanning 10 years due to a flood in 2023 and a fire in 2025
>>8072496These things could also destroy computers.
>>8072667cats?
Welp, it's always harder to animate in the second half of the year, but here's my attempt anyway.Cheers
>>8072729cute
>>8072747Thank you.Animation is hard enough as it is, and I greatly appreciate it in this age of cyberterrorism on enough levels..
