>Basic programs
https://opentoonz.github.io/e/
https://www.synfig.org/
https://motorpen.com
https://krita.org/en/
https://tupitube.com/

>"Where Do I Start?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4&t=674s [Embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y6Kkrlvzgs [Embed]
http://www.animatorisland.com/51-great-animation-exercises-to-master/

>Reference
https://vimeo.com/groups/aniref
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvspTjApofA2Yg3i10gTdQ
http://www.rhinohouse.com/
http://www.animatorisland.com/51-great-animation-exercises-to-master/
https://www.catsuka.com/gengal/artworks/

>2D FX animation course:
https://bitey.com/pages/fx

>Anime .gif/.webm repository
https://sakugabooru.com/post
https://motorpen.com/gallery

>Sakuga Extended: Add ons to play video on sakugabooru frame-by-frame
https://www.sakugabooru.com/forum/show/964
Mozilla Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sakuga-extended/
Chromium based browsers:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sakuga-extended/khmnmdaghmhkcbooicndamlhkcmpklmc

>Reference (artbook, settei of actual anime production, color designs):
https://setteidreams.net/settei/
https://setteidreams.net/artbooks/
https://setteidreams.net/color-designs/

>Animation Thread Discord (just a formality it's pretty much dead)
https://discord.gg/Ju9NuWN

>Thread theme: guns / firearms animation

Be nice to others : DDD
Please bump with own works
Avoid excessive reposts

Previous Thread: >>7526842

Discuss Blender and Grease Pencil.

>>7562953
What app did you use to animate this?

>>7562804
Not useful for begs, simple as

>>7562684 (OP)
Ayyy you beat me to it
very nice to have a second baker keeping the thread alive

>>7562804
got my hands on TVPaint....... never looked back

>>7563041
Clip Studio Paint EX. All the word balloon dialogue was just hand written/animated by me.

>>7562684 (OP)
You forgor to number the thread OP Baker-Sama
This is Animation General Thread #09
Now I can't unsee it

>>7563305
Didn't even wanna touch the thread with /anime/ as the title.

do i keep doin STDEV.S of dog ass potatos or do some dog ass animation?
odds animate
dubs I go play slop

>>7563305
there are way more than 9 animation threads, but oh well, sorry

so... how do you actually get started as an animator professionally?
I have a reel, I have "experience" on various non-professional projects, and I'm in the process of getting a degree. The only thing I don't have is experience in a studio or with any of the big animation programs since I've been sticking to free shit for years.
I guess what I'm asking is what I do from here

>>7563386
How are you getting a degree in animation and not touched any of the big programs?
Your school should provide you with the software to help you achieve the goal of becoming an animator.

Ask yourself these questions:

Do you want to specialize in 2D?
Yes?
Do you want to animate?
Yes?
Do you know how to use Harmony or Adobe Animate?
Yes?
Do you have a reel that is catered to said studio and is appealin' and showcases your best skill?
Yes?
Are you legible to work in state/province?
Yes?
Start applying and wishin' you the best.
If no at any point, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ glhf

i like animating :D

i hate animating >:(

>>7563366
this was the 9th one from when i started keeping track
do fun silly traditions mean nothing to (you)?
newfags be mad disrespectful to oldheads frfr no cap

>>7563386
unless its 3d u specialise in start grinding camera language and competant direction
actual animation as a job is a crap chute what you wanna be is a story-boarder/animatic artist/director
that's the backbone of any animated show and usually the highest value job you can have while still actively being involved in animation production

>>7563420
>>7563422
the contradiction of man

>>7563439
>this was the 9th one from when i started keeping track
>do fun silly traditions mean nothing to (you)?
>newfags be mad disrespectful to oldheads frfr no cap
i said im sorry

>>7562804
>sculpt mode is the single coolest hand drawn animation tool since macromedia flash, but has been totally neglected by the devs since version 1
>the upgrade from gpv2 to gpv3 was premature, lots of QoL drawing tools were lost and geometry nodes support is still less-than-half baked
>it is now The Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Five A.D. and there's still no native "blob brush" or "boolean eraser" tools
i'll check in at the next LTS, but despite investing a lot of time and effort into gpencil over the last 10 years i've hardly opened blender since 4.3 released

Trying to get this motion across before adding the inbetweens. These aren't supposed to loop with the first 3 frames it just sorta ended up looking like she's standing back up. 3 moves down, 4 moves up, 5 moves forward, 6 moves backwarkd. I feel like the foreshortening on 5 and 6 could be better.

>>7563789
this might read better if you time each frame instead of having them be equally spaced, as it stands i have no clue what the motion here is meant to be

>>7563439
>camera language and competant direction
any resources/tips to learn this? i know perspective is important for this and composition especially, started practicing those but i dunno if you have any specific suggestions

>>7563439
>actual animation as a job is a crap chute what you wanna be is a story-boarder/animatic artist/director
wait, I always heard the opposite, that animation, esp japanese animation, is the industry that is suffering a lack of trained workers, and that storyboarding is what is over-saturated...

pls give me hope, animation GOD sama, because I really wanna do storyboarding too, I always just thought it was possible. Please help give me a realistic view on storyboarding as a job

>>7563439
>>7563805
meant to say that storyboarding is *impossible

pro gress 1/2
i must finish some fucking god damn animations this year

>>7563898
2/2
this hair will kill me

>>7563899
lmao nice
the hair must be a shitload of work but it sure looks great

>>7563794
Watch lots n lots of lots animated media be they ads/movies/shows
having a vast mental library will improve your creativity

An excercise i was taught was to pick a good scene and reverse engineer an animatic from it
re-translating it from a finished render to an animatic and making it communicable to a fellow artist will make you conscious of what the general trappings of planning such a shot would be

Another tip I can share is that everyone uses the same slang/vocabulary for everything
Depending on the team, terms like "key frame", "camera zoom", "pan", can have different applied meanings, misunderstandings are common and frequent
Learn to anticipate and work through these differences and ensure your animatic is interpreted correctly
As you start getting into the workplace you'll realize 99% of the problems root from bad communication/misunderstandings

Having a hotshot sakuga nerd solo animator is cool n all, but an artist that can read between the line and tailor his work to the often retarded client's specific demands? now that's worth his weight in gold

>>7563805
>animation, esp japanese animation, is the industry that is suffering a lack of trained workers, and that storyboarding is what is over-saturated
Japanese studios are a bit of a exception since their industry is very streamlined for adapting manga that comes pre-packaged with great pacing/writing/composition
Hence they don't require little creative leg work on the artist's part to produce the animatic/story-board (Its probably still good work mind you but it adaption not an original creation)
Adapting a manga < Translating a vague script with multiple rounds of corrections/modification
Depends on which country you're in desu but from what i've seen the humble story-board is an essential step in every form of media even live-action ads/films need a storyboard for planning purposes and see big name story-board directors hired for lucrative commissions/salaries
Versatility>Specialization

>>7564101
>Another tip I can share is that everyone uses the same slang/vocabulary for everything
*not everyone
i meant to say not everyone

I was told this exercise would help me animate wave motions, like a wind in hair. Now what?

bump

doing a titter trend
think it'll take off?
its still a wip

>>7564101
But anon-sama, what do you make of all the fuss and worry about people saying the animation industry is dying, that there's no jobs left...

Stuff like this:
https://youtu.be/Woe37hD5av8
https://youtu.be/Zt6DRUzUvDo
https://youtu.be/8cARNGYnA7c
https://youtu.be/IXMuXQwZmSk

if I work hard at storyboarding and am good at it, do you think there's a fair chance I could get a full time job somewhere? Are all those women lying to me?

>>7564666
You might want to add some basic shine, it just looks like a yellow bikini.

>>7563791
>I have no clue what the motion here is
Alright, thats bad. The intention is for it to be a sex motion loop transitioning into slightly different sex motion positions. But I might just scrap that idea if I dont like it.

This one is a 4 frame loop doing a sort of pushup motion. I haven't really decided how many frames I want or the timing of it. Looking at it now, the hair physics is out of synch with the boob jiggles. I have to fix one of the frame's hair so it moves correctly. I also want the tongue to twirl with a drool strand following the tongue. Two of the frames has the tongue following the drool. Overall, I guess she's kinda like a eager dog. I kinda like it.

>>7564703
believing a woman's opinion on anything
not even once

>>7564735
its a wip render anon
i was awake way past my bed time trying to finish it in one go but alas

>>7563041
>app
Are you underaged?

>>7564703
>women with do nothing fake diversity quota jobs no longer have work
nature is healing

>>7565052
I don't think "rendering" this changes much man Imma be real

>>7564703
i'll be honest anon kun
my experience is limited to the indian animations industry (yeah the curry poo namaste people)
so really i can't give you much advice on the global market's state
but the global stage can't be worse than this third world pit
and if i can thrive here you shouldn't have much trouble surviving in your country's industry
best advice i got is stay strong and keep improving
make contacts wherever you can and have a reputation and a solid portfolio
you'll figure it out buddy just give it your all
also do post your work n help me keep the thread bumped

>>7564735
>>7565168
let me cook

>>7564791
based

>>7565480
Namaste, Kott-sama

your english is extremely good, have you tried getting a storyboarding job in the US or Canada? In north america, there are like 500 people who apply for 1 job, so it makes me feel like I don't have a chance at all, esp wtihout work experience or connections. How did you break in and get your first job? Were you just overwhelmingly good?

Also, how many drawing passes do you do in your animation? Do you draw everything in one go, like KJG?

>>7565480
jesus christ multi layer color/highlight is such a nightmare
nex time i'll look into using a third party software like after effects
fun excercise tho

>>7565635
>your english is extremely
thank you saaar
it's technically my second language
but honestly i'm more proficient with english than my mother tongue

>How did you break in and get your first job? Were you just overwhelmingly good?
i go my first job as freelance artist from my college prof's contact while still in college
after that my college contacts led me to the place im currently interning at
suprisingly credentials mean very little here they care more about what's in the portfolio
they had work and i was better than my peer applicants (i wa shown their work later) so i got picked
personally i'd rate myself as slightly below average at best by global standards which translates to pretty good here
I've been blessed with a phenomenal mentor who qualifies as one of the "greats" in the Indian animation industry so fortune's been on my side so far

>have you tried getting a storyboarding job in the US or Canada?
not really since i believe i'm unqualified still maybe in~6 ~7 years into my career i'll give it a go
besides i'm rather satisfied with work and life here
never really got the hype some of my people have towards moving abroad

>there are like 500 people who apply for 1 job,
this seems like an inflated figure
but even if it were accurate i reckon you could easily excel above ~80% of these by being just baseline competant/good communicator
if my experience with art college has taught me anyting
its that almost 90% of art students are failsons belonging to rich household
who're in it for "le art college experience" rather than any genuine interest or passion for animation
don't put yourself down by comparing yourself to the lowly masses
if you have genuine interest in animation and practice daily you've already got a massive headstart on a good chunk of your peers

>>7562684 (OP)

Anyone know if the linked sfx course(https://bitey.com/pages/fx) is good? I wanted to get the vfxapprentice course but couldn't find it on any torrent site

>>7564101
thank you! i don't post much here but i always sincerely appreciate your explanations

Is after effects the only option to create animations using a mesh? I tried Live2D but the fact that you need to use parameters to animate using the timeline feels counter intuitive. What if I want the hand to go beyond the limits of that parameter? Other solution would be Spine2D but $300 bucks...

>>7566617
the best imo

I'm posting this WIP because I don't see myself working on it anytime soon

>>7566617
its good anon san try it
there are more anime adjacent resources in the pasta
gimme some time i'll start duming links soon

>>7566636
glad i could help

>>7567098
nice

>>7567518
Download links:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/c7xekwxw64gq31n/ <-- bodiesinmotion.photo gifs
https://mega.nz/folder/bCQWATAI#sn4YaZD2m1zoFkser2Pqwg <-- Deja View siterip (Disney production art, sketches, and pencil tests) (6.20 GB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/n6kyq3dsb886864/ <-- incandescentdragon settei model sheets collection 2021-09-11.zip (4.42 GB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kdwixdmgorms9zv/ <-- Transformers model sheets (tfraw + allspark D.M) 2022-10-19.zip (828 MB)
https://mega.nz/folder/YO8CyRjR#_I0W4m5ywqMbvNCD_WOUOw <-- [peolesdru] Transformers toys transformation stop motion animation videos 2022-10-27 (10.65 GB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ehagte0lj80n4ea/ <-- Short Animation Making Course - Naoki Yoshibe works by Clip Studio Paint Pro/Ex (PDF, 69.2 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7lbm1vlo9y8xci0/ <-- Short Animation Making Course - Naoki Yoshibe works (English AI translation, gray pages).zip (289 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/clbtw4h1lh5fgtp/ <-- Naoki Yoshibe sakuga animation video examples (96 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/56ucg1qdro6cj8t/ <-- Naoki Yoshibe sakuga animation gif examples (30 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/93opu3oun1whkoz/ <-- Toshiyuki Inoue animation pencil tests (walks, runs, fire, water).zip

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1bdboyfmrjx0nid/ <-- [Tatenaka Junpei] Super Sports Dessin Kihon Hen-1280x.zip (27 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/fxp8mmjk0pkv9a0/ <-- [Tatenaka Junpei] Super Sports Dessin Kihon Hen.zip (same book, full resolution, 194 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vfncni90z1v82iy/ <-- [Tatenaka Junpei] Super Sports Dessin Kihon Hen (English translation, gray pages).zip (124 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/xn3nzshtc2rx3tv/ <-- (羽山淳一) Sketch a Person with Movement - Muscle Characters.zip (40 MB)

>>7567584
More Downloads from the archives :
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7gmaknibpawve9b/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Animators' Sketches-Moving Character Sketches -Battle Characters-- (1b56ej).7z (164 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vjaenmpbonmj02b/ <-- [Hayama Junichi] Anime Character Drawing and Design Technique.zip (47.5 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/p867655gluf87n1/ <-- Junichi Hayama Animators Sketch Collection Of Moving People Sketches - Heroine Characters.pdf (48 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/sldnfaw6oehx1qv/ <-- jukuryuu-saisoku-de-egakeru-you-ni-naru-kyara-sakuga-no-gijutsu.pdf (20 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vzmcncljmroe8gb/ <-- Kyoto Animation Sakuga no Tebiki (English translation).zip (27 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3vvb3dbp0kxd3s8/ <-- Effect Graphics Motion, Flow, And Texture Representation Catalog MDN (English translation, gray pages).zip (196 MB)
https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E5BCB904D2F45B52E252BF3E13C7C7B6 <-- エフェクトグラフィックス 動き・流れ・質感の表現カタログ (Effect graphics catalog for expressing movement, flow, and texture)


https://www.mediafire.com/file/ez4xoyu4ukxu4py/ <-- アニメーションのエフェクト作画テクニック by Kazunori Ozawa_jpg.zip (48 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/nyvor6k07alv0gl/ <-- アニメーションのエフェクト作画テクニック by Kazunori Ozawa_jpg (English AI translation, gray pages).zip (250 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vuaodlwnqyyg4s6/ <-- RockHe Kim's Anatomy Drawing Class.zip (113 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4lbqtgdbhjokd4m/ <-- RockHe Kim's Anatomy Drawing Class (English AI translation, gray pages).zip (962 MB)

>>7567585
More More:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/99v4wtjems7ohh9/ <--Pencil tests from Andreas Deja's YouTube channel (789 MB)
https://mega.nz/folder/bCQWATAI#sn4YaZD2m1zoFkser2Pqwg <--Deja View siterip (Disney production art, sketches, and pencil tests) (6.20 GB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/bwmi5qs6ec766ay/ <-- Shingo Yamashita & Kenichi Kutsuna - Shin Sakuga book (新 作画).pdf (258 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/irwr59a4volzxft/ <-- Shingo Yamashita & Kenichi Kutsuna - Shin Sakuga book (English AI translation, gray pages).zip (84 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ukfpozobd068f59/ <-- Yoshida Tips for drawing a woman in 10 minutes 250.zip (209 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/e70ciafdt8ig9o3/ <-- [Tooru Yoshida] Yoshida Style! Sakuga of Anime Effect.zip (62 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ffai75dtr6ndoks/ <-- [Toru Yoshida] Yoshida Style! Sakuga of Anime Effect (English AI translation).zip (228 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/hrv1uul5ah4o8qs/ <-- [Shinofusa Rokurou] Pose no Teiri - Theorem of Poses.zip (441 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kj6w6b3zrnepvrd/ <-- [Shinofusa Rokurou] Pose no Teiri - Theorem of Poses (English AI translation, gray pages).zip (615 MB)

>>7567587
more more more:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/t5po6d5rcxla3wc/ <-- Effect Graphics Motion, Flow, And Texture Representation Catalog MDN.pdf (78 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/if301p3vphlnb4p/ <-- Effect Graphics Motion, Flow, And Texture (English AI translation, not gray).zip (203 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/fxp8mmjk0pkv9a0/ <-- [Tatenaka Junpei] Super Sports Dessin Kihon Hen.zip (194 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/f82eshw73ogtoes/ <-- [Tatenaka Junpei] Super Sports Dessin Kihon Hen (English AI translation, not gray).zip (135 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/p867655gluf87n1/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Animators' Sketches - Heroine Characters.pdf (48 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/k2jxjgwlow7mrak/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Animators' Sketches - Heroine Characters (English AI translation).zip (150 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/j7z51r9b0i617i0/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Animators' Sketches - Muscle Characters.zip (36 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ckkq2to5xxlphcb/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Animators' Sketches - Muscle Characters (English AI translation).zip (145 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/v741ccbs5ax84kv/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Animators' Sketches - Battle Characters.zip (170 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/eyo28ksw72xxlnf/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Animators' Sketches - Battle Characters (English AI translation).zip (148 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/zv4sh0abpp3a3uy/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Anime Character Drawing and Design Technique [Digital].zip (47 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/c5ndr71ojztcki2/ <-- [Junichi Hayama] Anime Character Drawing and Design Technique (English AI translation).zip (163 MB)

>>7567589
More More More more:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/i1lbpfa2gqimrx0/ <-- [Xiao Weichun] Human ANatomy For Artists.zip (43 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/xobelbbggq08t2k/ <-- [Xiao Weichun] Human ANatomy For Artists (English AI translation, not gray).zip (344 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/uh74hymunbvb34m/ <-- [Xiao Weichun] 游戏动漫人体结构造型手绘技法.pdf (35 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/nqedd9dyekv8zbc/ <-- [Xiao Weichun] 游戏动漫人体结构造型手绘技法 (English AI translation, not gray).zip (394 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vuaodlwnqyyg4s6/ <-- RockHe Kim's Anatomy Drawing Class.zip (113 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/j4febdvfrkes0xi/ <-- RockHe Kim's Anatomy Drawing Class (English AI translation, not gray).zip (1 GB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/c7d20pk7oxl1m9n/ <-- [Bong Choon Sik] Easy-To-Learn Human Body Drawing.pdf (54 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1hae05zik1dwen9/ <-- [Bong Choon Sik] Easy-To-Learn Human Body Drawing (English AI translation, not gray).zip (203 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3niwtb5mq7mkby5/ <-- [Bong Choon Sik] Action Drawing.pdf (414 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/gaeao46egxuf5z8/ <-- [Bong Choon Sik] Action Drawing (English AI translation, not gray).zip (383 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/rzbojqxvrxvrn0i/ <-- Hands taught by Takahiro Kagami with all his might.zip (39 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/x7ahigmriab3bj8/ <-- Hands taught by Takahiro Kagami with all his might (English AI translation, not gray).zip (180 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/dvdyi21mwhjzv6k/ <-- Animator assignment collection (aja.gr.jp jigyou ikusei workbook) (animator_kadai).pdf (102 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/85psk4cj92myon5/ <-- Animator assignment collection (aja.gr.jp jigyou ikusei workbook) (English AI translation).zip (67 MB)

I love you bug-anon

>>7567590
More More More More more:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kuwxpmt70zoufg8/ <-- [Sachiko Kamimura] Encyclopedia of Animation Basics.zip (207 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vaq5juvgrp9hafr/ <-- [Sachiko Kamimura] Encyclopedia of Animation Basics (English AI translation).zip (285 MB)

https://e-hentai.org/g/2382313/e5bd4953ad/ <-- [Hitoshi Ariga] Megaman

the japanese links end here following is more generalized resources

https://www.mediafire.com/file/mw5cy6kzak4l6bs/ <-- [Mike Mattesi] The Force companion_ quick tips and tricks [Digital].zip (61 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/npk7txn52fden2e/ <-- [Mike Mattesi] Force Companion Sketches.zip (25 MB)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wgfxhqw2p095ede/ <-- James Baxter animation pencil tests 2022-11-04.zip (82 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/f9i8ng69f0nh2nv/ <-- named Model Sheets (1.64 GB) mystery link

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1wzhjbta2189fpu/ <-- G.I. Joe - Field Manual v01 (2012) (digital-Empire).cbz (228 MB)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/n3wpuqhwabckxl7/ <-- G.I. Joe - Field Manual v02 (2013) (digital-Empire).cbz (226 MB)

https://benzilla.com/uploads/StanchfieldBook.pdf <-- Gestures for Animation
https://mega.nz/folder/1KMyxJiR#nWoZTtGHDxlOzKH6A2h5ww

https://archive.org/details/adobe-flash-professional-cs6 <-- Adobe Flash Professional CS6
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H2inPVHju47b8jzYxh2HPEonMfSonhru/view <-- Introduction to Japanese Anime Industry
https://www.mediafire.com/file/fu6q8y2itqup6vz/ <-- zurbrigg Keyframe Pro v1.15.1 (x64)-fixed.zip (41 MB)

>>7566617
see these links they'll be helpful too: >>7567585 >>7567587 >>7567589
have fun

>>7567592
: DDDD

How do i teach myself how to story board?

>>7567608
see:>>7564101

>>7565052
>>7565154
kys

bump

>>7567594
nigger do you not know what a pastebin is?

>>7568008
heard from a fren that someone's running a dedicated bot that sweeps pastebin n reports download links

>>7564101
>Another tip I can share is that everyone uses the same slang/vocabulary for everything
so "jargon"?
>>7568013
then share the link in base64 like everyone else or throw it into a torrent and share the magnet. It's better than shitflooding the thread

>>7568014
be the change you wanna see in the world

>>7568008
do NOT call bug-anon a nigger

another muscle study this time the arm.

>>7565635
try not to get your lines perfect as an animator.
There's no need for the sweeping beautiful lines as instructed usually for lineart in still drawings. Most animator's sketches for animation are in chicken scratch. Seriously. Even disney animators.

>>7568036
reminds me of meteion

>>7563899
nice keep it up

>>7563422
thumbs up

>>7563898
>>7563899
pure kino btw
godspeed you magnificient bastard

>>7568014
is how i do things man helps keep the thread bumped during slow days
ended up dumping all at once cuz that anon asked for sfx adjacent links n i haven't optimized the pasta by category
be the change you wanna see in the world tho more power to you
i wont stand in your way

>>7568042
>bug-anon
i like that name : DDD

>>7568102
>reminds me of meteion
yeah i wanted her ears to be like downwards pointed upright dog ears
the simplification overtime got her to look like that

How long would it take you to recreate the entirety of Mike and Melissa's first episode from scratch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85V7aqcwJ3Y

>>7568925
Finally gonna buy a new chair for the home set-up
after the current one started leaning back left
expect a marked boost in output from ol bug-anon

>>7570017
if we go by a very generous 2 days per minute (since its mostly static/looping shots) then a month
not counting the composting and audio editing ofc

double double

>>7570086
>anti-aliasing on the arm for only the last few frame
really activates by almonds

Dunno if this is the right place to posti it, but whatever. I downloaded Clip studio paint from here
https://onhaxpk.net/clip-studio-paint-4-0-crack/#comments
disabled windows defender during installation, as usual, and when re enabling shows this.
am i fucked? should i remove it? anyone knows if that site is safe?

>>7570113
better safe than sorry...

>>7570113
>disabled windows defender during installation, as usual
You're fucked, but you were probably already fucked if you go around installing cracks from shady sites with antivirus disabled.

>>7568096
Making them GAINS!

Kotto Hydra

>>7570113
anon forgor to scan the installer file on virus total before installing
rookie mistake

>>7570113
uninsall that shit anon
check the task manager for any background application you don't recognize
potentially, its installed some chnese bitcoin miner on your hard drive
if you have back ups of ur file i'd reccomend just had formatting things
if not then run a virus scan using the default windows defender n uninstall any app it flags down
don't wildly click any shortcuts on your desktop and log out of any n all google/youtube/social media accounts you are logged into from that PC
pray to PC Jesus and it'll be fixed sooner or later
god speed you goofy bastard

Tried doing a run cycle by loosely animating straight-ahead. Kinda jumpy but I'm still happy with it.

>>7562684 (OP)
Why does she have rivets on her panties

>>7571779
Nice, has a lot of character and emotion despite the low frame count and fps.

>>7571779
really good character acting anon
very cool : DDD

>>7571800
robot pussy

im trying to be more efficient with storyboarding, how does one improve such a skill? just by doing it more?

>>7573043
>pick a good movie/series
>Find a really well directed sequence
>reverse-engineer a story-board/animatic of it
>repeat until satisfied with animatic
rinse and repeat king
improvement/instinct doesn't manifest from thin air
watch lots n lots animated movies/series to build up a library in your mind

Lift Off

>>7573745
T-minus 3, 2, 1, FART OFF

why does this look wicked messed up

>>7574061
You gotta give'em more height so he doesn't stick to the ground.

>>7574068
wait you're right

>>7564101
>Hence they don't require little creative leg work on the artist's part to produce the animatic/story-board

>>7573852
lmao cute catto

>>7574237
looking groovy

>>7574261
look i draft these post as single train of thought alright
dont exactly proof read before hitting post
as long as you get the gist of what im sayin here

>>7574237
Now animated turnin' a sphere inside out on 1s

>>7574334
you should read that book elemental magic if youre into sfx animation
its really in depth on that stuff

I feel insane and inadequate /anim/bros I gotta snap out out of it. It's been months since I've drawn consistently ouuuugg

>>7575276
I feel ya. I'm experiencing a low myself in terms of motivation for animation (and art in general, since getting my part time job that's been sucking a bit of energy from me)

Anyone else know a good place to download toonboom preferably with no viruses. I was actually willing to pay the permanent license fee but they’ve gone subscription like everything else.

What’s the best resource on clothing folds in the anime studio format? Is the morpho book on folds sufficient for learning the theory?

>>7568036
>>7568925
>be the change you wanna see in the world
They are YOUR links that YOU posted. I already format my shit because I'm not a retard
>>7568042
Look frog-posting faggot, if that guy wants to be an attention whore that shitfloods the thread to not-stealthily post his dumpy tegaki animations, I'll call him whatever I want.

>>7575991
>YOUR links that YOU posted
nta but he only compiled them from the archived thread of the past
he did his due if you want more convenience then do the leg work crab boy

Anyone here use blender's grease pencil suite lately? Last time I touched it was in 2021 and I remember not having the best time with it.

>>7575043
>turnin' a sphere inside out
how does one even do that?
like that one geometry explanation video where some scientist lady explains how to turn a spere inside out without folding the surface?
cool stuff if true

>>7575276
welcome tothe imposter syndrome clud
remember you're incapable of truly seeing yourself from a third person's perspective and no matter how inadequate you feel you are probably underestimating yourself
stay humble and remain competent you'll figure it out buddy you got this

>>7575991
kick bricks you meanie poopoo head

>>7576365
not really
got my hands on tv paint n never looked back

also makin up for yesterday's missed daily doodle

>>7563297
Is that even good for animation? The animation UI and workflow is clunky that it gives me Vietnam flash backs

>>7575655
why toonboom when csp is better in every way and is industry standard in Japan?

It's been a while since I've animated anything. I should do it more, this duck was pretty fun to make

>>7577358
Because it’s an annoying program to animate on. Found it anyway. Guess I’ll see how I go with it.

if i was hypothetically held at gun-point and forced to learn 3-d animation where would i need to start?
Like 3d modellling, crazy shader and other computer non-sense
how would i go about learning that while retaining the charm of 2d animation?
asking for a friend

>>7578210
3D animation is super easy since all you really need to worry about is blocking and node cleaning.

I'd start with the classic "Blender Doughnut" tutorial so u can get used to the Blender layout. Once your confident in you shortcut skills, I'd look into basic 3d ball bouncing animations. A lot of things, so take ur time.

>>7578210
I'd start by finding rigged model online and learning to animate it in blender. Thats what I did for pic related (but didnt finish it because 3d is gay ass)
If you have literally no idea how 3d works then maybe watch some really basic tutorials first

>>7577533
what exactly is annoying about it? to me it's the easiest thing to use ever

>>7578210
Download blender.

If you want to make your own models, try following a tutorial.

I do not recommend starting from the ground up. You want to focus on animating first, then finding what makes you unsatisfied about premade models then try to make your own.

Find fully rigged models.

https://sfmlab.com (SFW)
https://smutba.se/ (NSFW)

or rip from video games:
- ffxiv
- sims
- any game using unreal engine 4 or below

>>7576312
>he only compiled them from the archived thread of the past
Yes, the links he posted. Ergo HIS links. Basic English
>>7576883
>kick bricks you meanie poopoo head
oh haha babytalk so original and creative like your animations
inb4 "pyw" my animations are in this thread

>>7578991
link them

animation is fun!!

>>7578654
nta, but I do think the layer-cel format is tedious and makes editing multiple frames at once/copy pasting onto frames more time consuming than it needs to be. otherwise it's pretty smooth and feels good to use.

>>7580096
>animation is fun!!
truer and falser words have never been spoken

Learning how to animate rigs has made me lazy, I prefer making shit with rigged assets instead of drawing things frame by frame anymore

>>7570113
This is Pajeet ware. Though it's the only remotely promising looking way of getting this cracked. Reddit seems to say it's okay but who knows.

>>7580329
Shit me too. I realized hand drawn just takes to much time when I can still make good looking rigged stuff much quicker. I also picked up stop mo because of this. Pretty quick and it feels good to go straight ahead.

anyone has wip password for setteidreams?

Not really an animation and more just a series of drawings, copying a video almost frame by frame, but I think it still fits here the best

slowly animating this
https://litter.catbox.moe/vtty23.mp4

>>7580096
the trick is to animate in folders. You gotta drag the layer to the folder button and then you can animate in folders

finished this scrolly-thing:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DGBXBwWirp4

>>7580096
Aw I love this walk, very cute!

just watched re:cutie honey and had to do a study

>>7578542
>>7578660
thanks fr the advice frens

>>7578618
cool anim anon
i'll look into it this sunday
blocking n keying seems kinda fun ngl

>>7578991
no u

>>7580096
>animation is fun!!
so true

>>7581123
cool study anon

>>7581663
nice story-telling anon

>>7581732
goes hard frfr no cap

also here today's daily bump
I got myself a job btw
the daily doodle is kinda redundant as portfolio building now
but i'll keep going cuz animating is fun


limited to only 90 mins of internet daily has been insane for my productivity
seriously lads switch off the wifi and just draw
my new office requires us to hand our phone at the reception and zero personal entertainment on the work pc
its crazy how lazer focused my attention got in the last 2 days
just draw with zero distractions no music no podcast nothin lads, unironically compounds your growth
fr fr no cap go draw
download all the files you need and switch off the router
it just works

>>7582127
congrats kott bro

now pls follow me back on twitter

keeping animation from not looking shakey is so hard

>>7582705
May I see your shacky animation?

>>7582705
What kind of shaky are we talking here?

>>7582749
can't because of gr15
>>7582896
line wigglies

>>7583156
>can't because of gr15
Why not catbox it?

>line wigglies
Like line boil? Some people find that desirable though, but if you're trying to keep it consistent, then I get it

what do people typically use for animation on iOS?

>>7583714
clip studio paint

>>7583715
but i like procreate

>>7583716
then you can just be your atypical you

>>7583716
I will be a ToonSquid shill, as a disgruntled former Dreams user. Dreams might be helpful though if you're so married to your brushes/brush engine from there. Then again, you said iOS, not iPadOS, so if you're on a phone...I have no idea what to tell you. Or you know, you can keep using the Procreate animation assist function, but you won't get the added benefits of a layered timeline, amongst other useful features of more dedicated animation programs.

>>7582337
what's ur @ fren?
i'll follow back

>>7583714
I'll shill RoughAnimator, it's also pretty good.

second anim to make up for missing last night's daily quota

I've made a few animations

>>7584309

how'd i do, first real animation done in procreate dreams + first time animating 2 characters interacting
>>7584309
this is seriously so sick

I like animating in clip studio paint, but why do they never fix the framerate issues when playing the animation? It can never just get a steady 24 fps even after putting on the render all frames and prefer speed setting. it's always fluctuating around 22fps. Is there actually any fix to that because I've looked all over and hardly anyone even acknowledges that really annoying bug. I feel like clip studio would be the best animation software if they fixed that.

>>7584403
thanks bruv

>>7584284
streak continues

>>7584309
>>7584310
>>7584311
based and study-pilled
good job fren
keep up the good work

>>7584403
very cute

Do you guys prefer animating using a pen tab or a pen display?

>>7584403
blog?

does anyone still have the multiple 1-2 hour long videos of james baxter teaching titmouse animators from last year? all links of it are dead, even the archives removed that shit, I'm asking because I lost them

>>7585539
wtf, does james baxter lurk /ic/ and delete these links?

>>7585544
I think the problem is more titmouse caught wind of it and basically dmca'd everything and no one made a proper archive of anything. Which sucks because I thought the tutorials were pretty good

>>7585539
did no one throw them into a torrent? How have people still not learned to torrent their shit?

i feel like a big cheater whenever i use transform tools and other digital shortcutss for animation. the legends of yore had no such privileges
but then im like fuck it i like making life easier

>>7562684 (OP)
Why isn't Tahoma2D in the OP?

>>7587062
they all would've if they could've

I was focused on the jiggles but the leg movement seems off.

bump

So what's the best way to make an actual short animation? I've made somewhere between 30s-1 min of practice animations this month, but I have a story that I want to animate, and I think it could be a nice challenge.

Right now I'm in the planning phase. I think I will make a short written script and I am also figuring out the exact tone and style that I want to hit (i.e. if I want it slightly playful or more serious).

I am guessing the next step would be to make a storyboard and an animatic. This would help me see how much work I have in front of me, and whether I need to make any changes if I want to finish the project by the end of Q3 (there will be an indie festival in my area).

Then if it looks good I "just animate" and make the backgrounds, doing roughs first, and then cleaning up + coloring (if I decide to do colors, black and white would also fit my theme). I've only done messier rough stuff so far, so if I want to make it nicer this step will probably take quite a while.

Audio is another important part, I'm guessing it wouldn't hurt to already have dialogue recorded fairly decently by the animatic stage.

I am thinking of starting off solo, and then I will ask around among my artist friends to see if someone might be willing to collaborate. I can already see that with animation it's much easier to get a nice end product if you have a team instead of going solo.

Any one of you ever did a bigger project like this? Do you have any advice?

>>7587809
oh my fucking god you're the best animator in the world

which Spike and Mike tapes are your guys' favorites? Did any of you go to the shows? I've been rewatching volume 2 since I was a kid

>>7588019
hell yeah

this might sound like a strange question but do you guys think smears have any place in porn loops
i find myself removing them because they might be too goofy

>>7588476
Depends on where you're putting them, and in what context--I imagine stuff closer to the "fap material" would want less goofy vfx, but if you want to enhance general motions like arm movements and such, it would be a nice addition

I probably put too much time into this. It might not work with the flow of a scene I want to do. But I like the booba jiggles.

>>7587974
thanks fren

>>7588100
what app do you use
adobe animate is sucky and messes with my brain

>>7585539
I lost acess to the flash files that were in that leak due to my old laptop dying a month ago (right before I was going to fuck with them god damn it), if anyone can give me those I can give out the james baxter videos.
I know which ones were in the leak so don't post anything not related to what I'm looking for.

>>7588999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG2UJ2kcdlE

>>7589106
That's a completely different demo he did for an animation school. The ones in the titmouse leak were made for titmouse employees and they go over more things than in what you linked.

>>7588940
If you remember, I'm an iPad main, using ToonSquid. I definitely love it more than Flash/Animate since I can use raster brushes on it

Forgive me, mother

Greetings again

>>7588019
Love this so much

>>7584309
supa' solid brother

>>7581732
I kneel!!!!!!

>>7585364
nice bootay, sar kott

>systems think this post is spam

lol

>>7588999
you mean these?
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DoQY0fDvMdTCN20GZA0I5d4Z15ES0ja4?usp=sharing

>>7589527
There are a few missing but it's good enough. Thanks.
>>7585539

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>>7589632
thank you

Dont mind the hands. I'm trying to do extreme camera angles. I dont think flows well with the last thing I posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3QP-4Q9x4w
learned something from watching this, not sure if it would help u guys but then again im a /beg/ ass nigga

>>7588816
that hip turn around is mega screwy anon san
i'd highly reccomend doing a lotta figure drawing practice before you commit to clean anim (w shadows no less)
admire the effort but walk before you run frenon

>>7589434
head shrinks on the down frame
cute motion blur o the arm
but might as well commit to a single smear frame
consider adding anticipation to the arm before the smear frame to telgraph that action it starts off too abruptly
the collar also gets a bit wobbly
and last best advice i got is not every frame has to be a complete redraw its fine to let the base torso drawing stay the same with very slight morphing

>>7589424
i know but is there a way to do that on pc that you know of?
i really like your artstyle n wanna replicate that vibe
idk how minus8 did it in his time i can't get symbols to properly track with the parent symbol or stuff like adding offset to the child symbol (for secondary action) after tweening the parent without the symbol going haywire
its prolly just a skill issue but its really getting on my nerves the only viable option seems to be making a symbol inside the child symbol and animating/offsetting that but then it becomes entirely too unwieldly and counter-intuitives
especially since there isn't dedicated timeline for individual aspects like xy cooridinates/scaling/rotation i was relying on the parenting to atleast work reliably
I'm gonna spend a weekend tryna troubleshoot
but i'd be lovely if i could find a easier to use software specialized for tweening predrawn assets or some such

>>7589632
alright i gotta know is it base64 decode thing or a torrent magnet link
how do oldfags know what to do with these strings of letters?

>>7589455
thanks fren
nice to see you posting

>>7589800
based coomer

>>7590743
>alright i gotta know is it base64 decode thing or a torrent magnet link
you'll figure it out anon
>how do oldfags know what to do with these strings of letters?
They're actually tech savvy problem solvers

I'm at my most productive when I'm also at my most erratic and distracted. I'm churning out frames like it's nothing but I have to stop every 5 minutes to doomscroll 4chan catalogues and check youtube. What does it mean?

>>7590743
figured out that i hafta do the tweening slightly ass-backwards starting from the child symbol upto the parent symbol
i can still do it the other way round but if i tween the keys and try to offset them i think the anchor doesnt know where to pin the child to the parent
it works like a 50/50 chance idk
might take a lot more planning every loop before i make it a thing
still don't get how minus8 does the boob outlines from some of the bouncie gifs
it looks ttoo perfect to be manual
maybe its masking idk i gotta research it abit more

>>7590757
share your wisdom o wise one

>>7590762
doo an internet abstinence period of like 6 hours a day
literally disconnect your router and go cold trukey
after the initial tics my productivity shot up by 60%
doom-scrolling actually bad for the reative mind
don't become a sconstant stimulus junkie it ruins your brain in untold ways

>>7590767
>doo an internet abstinence period of like 6 hours a day
how do people use the internet more than that? Jesus...

>>7590743
>>7590766
I really hope I can sort of explain and help you here, but I also do really dislike Flash/Animate.

From what I remember with Flash/Animate, what I try to do is animate the whole motion and then change the timing values; I swear there *should* be a way to change the timing of a symbol along with nesting that should let you do it in a manner similar to how I do here in TS (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T2RnLJ3MRXw).

>still don't get how minus8 does the boob outlines from some of the bouncie gifs
>it looks ttoo perfect to be manual
Funny you mention that, as I did see how he did it on stream years back, and it was a crazy interesting method: when he does the boob outline movement, like when bouncing up and down, to nicely thicken and thin out, is that he's layering 2 ovals: you have the skin colored oval on top, and then a black oval behind it, to simulate the line art. He then offsets the movement of the black oval behind positionally (and I think as well with timing offset) so that it gives the appearance of black linework. I hope I'm explaining it in a way that makes sense here.

Also I really do wish there was a Flash/Animate-esque program that would let you do raster AND symbols (I know you can do the assets in another program and import, but it makes fixing errors more annoying since you have two layers of programs to work with). I hear Toon Boom is an often recommended one for tweening, but it's also super unintuitive for the Flash-minded user because it has different ways of setting up (from what I last remember struggling badly in TB). It does allow for raster in it, last I checked though, but you're sorta on your own there. ToonSquid is fucking baller because it's so intuitive as a former Flash guy, so it was extremely easy to get the hang of with that experience.

>>7590777
>do people use the internet more than that
mobiles also counts not just the pc
the smart phone really is the devil

>>7590784
>he's layering 2 ovals
i reckonned it was some masking shenanegans but this method is way simpler
are any of his steams still out there
i'll go digging into that seems like the perfect jump off point

pic rel ain't bad for a weekend study tho im starting to get the gist of it
given another week of experimenting i think i can start doing some immitation studies
just you wait minus8 i am gonna learn your technique

>>7590953
Unfortunately I have no clue if anyone has archived them--he has a free account on Picarto which is where he used to do his lewd streams, and there's no VODs there. I know he did SFW stuff on his Twitch so you might see some VODs...but I have no idea if it still exists or if her purged, so yeah, hard to track that stuff down other than through my memories.

>just you wait minus8 i am gonna learn your technique
Funny you say that: I used to watch his streams almost religiously during '18-'19, and that was during my beginnings as a lewd artist. He's the reason why I started this, and I always wished I could animate like him. It's why I take it as a compliment when my first TS tweening animations were compared to him, as that's what I'm going for.

I believe in you kotto-anon, might take some time but you'll get there! One thing I have to keep telling myself too is that it's okay if they don't look amazing--we're just learning here. I looked through minus8's old work and I can definitely see the cracks and mistakes, but it's a sobering reminder to just let go of trying to look amazing when we just need to produce and learn.

>>7590777
there's porn
and stock quotes

rigging in moho is fun. I've only been using this program for two days

>>7591897
Been interested in buying moho, is it worth it? I wanna get into rigged stuff, I love doing hand drawn stuff but I know rigs would speed up my work.

>>7591899
at least for me, it was really easy to grasp using after following a few tutorials. I know it's possible to do rigging and frame by frame animation in there. I would try the trial version at least, that's what I've been doing but I'm probably going to buy it since I've been liking using it so far

>>7590743
Thanks for the advice
>>7588816
I like it but the jiggle is too insane, gotta slow it down by 300% at the very least

>>7591899
>buying

>>7590986
>might take some time but you'll get there!
yeah i'm gonna sleep on it for a week and retryy on the sunday after the next one
in my experience taking a small hiatus works better than slogging through via brute force
a big lesson i've learned is that those types of animation is 99% composition/posing and 1% animation process
i'll be compiling all the gifs and studying the posing instead of obsessing over the technical side of the animation/rigging process

>>7591726
hence follow a strict schedule
your mind simply desires the illusion of free acess not free access by itself
you won't be viewing stocks/porn any less on a schedule
you just be pre-planning/optimizing your timing to preclude distracting tangeants/rabbit holes that the internet is designed to lure you into
take the discipline-pill anon structure your time you have very precious few years of life left in you optimize it to hell and back

>>7591897
interesting rig fren
i'll look into moho

>>7591934
do you do straight ahead animation or key poses first anon?
there's something uncanny with the motion but i cant quite nail it

>>7591934
I think it'd be better with the 2nd frame shorter

>>7588999
THIS NIGGA USING MEDIA PLAYER
GET HIS ASS

is anyone here interested in a rip of the new sony animation course, it's incredibly basic but does have good information for beginners on the animation pipeline

>>7592852
I am INCREDIBLY interested.

>>7592859
here ya go
https://granny.freefilehosting.online/uploads/86574435982a8770/

monke

>>7592913
what a spaz

>>7584311

>>7593592
Does your software allow you to export the animation at 24 FPS?
I'd recommend it for future renders since it slows it and makes it more appealing.

>>7594297
I believe it's already 24 FPS

>>7593592
Needs a bit more bounce in the torso and head

>>7594345
in that case add an extra frame for each frame
or export at 12 FPS.
crazy bastard is doing everything on ones

What are good apps to use for animation on mobile? I usually use ibis paints animation feature, but I have something bigger than my usual bull shit that I plan to make

>>7594688
thanks for story idea, im gonna steal this and produce it within a week by sending it to my koreans

>>7594981
Tell your Koreans Darcy has two more ear piercings i didn’t want to draw

>>7594688
As long as you can make one shot in it it's good enough for animating. It would be a pain not to do the compositing + editing on PC though

>>7591934
>jiggle is too insane
Yeah, I probably shoulda had only one bounce. It kinda looks like one of those door stopper things when they get flicked. Its pretty goofy.

>>7590743
>do a lotta figure practice
I dont like to study. Why spend the drawing time stoodying when you can draw things you wanna draw. Studying is like grinding for work, a forverer ic/ beg trap. I only got so much time in the day and I dont wanna do things like grinding boxes, gestures, plain airs, etc. when I'm not having fun with it. And I can't really build a following from my target audience (futafag gooners) if all i got is tons of figure studies, boxes and value studies.

I'll admit that I probably bite off more than I can chew for the idea I have in my brain. This is supposed to be a 6 sec magical girl transformation scene with lots of lewdness but its not really flowing well. Too much time was wasted on things that probably didnt need that effort while other things were neglected. Her tits are supposed to grow and the costume is supposed to magically appear. I think the skeleton is there but I'll just scrap the idea and work on something easier.

>>7594688
interesting do share your wip here i'd like to see how it pans out

>>7595824
walk before you run young grasshopper
its good to be horny now harness it
you draw far too many unique frames where only a few tweaked frames would suffice
you've got the stubornness needed for animation you just need proper polishing friend
optimize and min max your animations efficiency is king utilize every tool in your belt

Use the following links its passiv econtent to play in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4&t=674s
https://www.mediafire.com/file/cqz7iwex4mtzidu/ <---- [The Animator's Survival Kit *Video* course]
invest the time in watching these videos (not all of em just the parts that seem relevant)

>>7595824
>I dont like to study. Why spend the drawing time stoodying when you can draw things you wanna draw.
I used to be like this but study is nessesary. It's very annoying and boring in the beggining but eventually it gets fun. You'll stagnate a lot if you don't put in the work. Balance the studies with non studies.

i didn't know animation was this fun

>>7567585
How do I get to this level. I just started learning.

>>7595375
I’ve used my phone for all my past animations and it honestly gets easier the more you do it, the thing I’m worried about is my phone exploding from this
I’m at 93 of these shits as of today and I’m running out of post it notes now

>>7598072
with the power of love and discipline

What software is used create this animation? I'm more interested in the live mouse recording. I read that AE has the mouse sketch feature but I don't think this is that. I tried asking the person who made this but they purposely ignored me.

https://i.4cdn.org/b/1749241067013276.webm

>>7599072
In case the link dies before I get a response here's a gif of the animation. I'd really appreciate any help, it felt bad to be actively ignored in the other thread.

>>7599079
Oh that is boots from /b/

pretty sure they use GIMP for the software and OBS record the interactions.

U could probably go find them somewhere on the socials and annoy them there

>>7599208
it's fine i figured out some alternatives, id have deleted these if I could but they're too old to delete thx though

Monke

>>7600317
literally me

The biggest mystery to me is how come animators don't have the highest suicide rates among all jobs

>>7601044
the biggest mystery to me is why you guys always keep the head fucking static when you do porn loops
stop being lazy

>>7601048
Because no matter what you do there will always be some fag complaining why did you not do for free even more to satisfy his noname ass

>>7601070
all im saying is put in the work. if youre already bitching about it being hard and youre only going at half speed it might not be a good idea to push forward

>>7601228
anon-san
that is an e-girl attention monger
she enever intens on using animation as anything but a gimmick
leave her be if she's destined for expertise she'll gain interest in it by herself

>>7563899
>>7563898
LMAO since when did Baxter become a midget fucker?
Amazing work anon, that rotation and her hips exaggeratedly foreshortening forwards and backwards look really fucking solid.
Are you a pro or something? What kind of formation do you have?

bump

Man I have been so busy lately, but here's something I did as a throwback for a weekly theme in an animation Discord I recently joined (that being old 2000s/2010s animations of Flash/Flipnote/etc)

>>7602578
Is it true you are Bangladeshi?

>>7602620
the clouds not moving is upsetting me but gj otherwise

who wants to buy me CSP EX

>>7603076
>doesn't even post work

>>7603062
It was something I threw quickly together so yeah, it bothers me too. Making them move slowly would take a long ass loop

>>7603076
drop your paypal or cashapp or whatever

do any of you ever feel like just ending it all instead of drawing another frame?

how grim is it if you wanna make money with this (assuming one is halfway decent)

is going pro and slaving away a better effort compared to youtube/tik tok/any kind of solo online work?

>>7604119
just go to tiktok/youtube shorts.
no studio is hiring right now in North America.

>>7602942
curry runs in my viens saar im proud indian number one
do not redeem bloody baterd you hehe
jokes aside i am indian as brown as they come
: DDD

>>7603878
skill issue

>>7604119
>>7604138
i hear there's a big demand for the ol "animated voice clips from le popular gamer/dnd podcast" market
another's the super cracked instagram/tiktok algorhythm maxxing route
or if you can do a decent job at shot composition most advertisement studios have demand for animatic/story-board artists
or if you wanna really grift-maxx start pumping out "le social commentary animations" like this guy : https://youtu.be/e9dZQelULDk
suprisingly if you're a well off upper class faggot there's a living to be made shilling "current thing" politics in shitty animated format to film festivals
the shortfilm fest grift might be on a decline but its still a living

also there's nsfw porn mills to run if you can shill to the right niche coomer whale market

She's so cute in this outfit

bump
aside from ball bounce pendulum string n canon what assignments do you guys think are essential for beginners?
I'm kinda helping a friend get into animation what practices do i shove down his throat?

>>7605533
a basic walk cycle

>>7605533
brick drop from an angle to practice a solid to convey different kinds of weight that involves an extra little layer of thinking than the ball bounce

water balloon drop, essentially a ball bounce with a more squishy and wobbly feel, again just another added bit of stuff to think about as a step up from doing only ballz

basic character head turn maybe?

>>7596100
> walk before you run...too many unique frames...optimize and min max your animation efficiency...Utilize every tool in your belt...

I will continue to trip and fall down the stairs until I reach some sort of destination. I may end up going backwards and wasting a lot of time but in the end it all adds up to many repeated failures to learn from. Right now I'm very time inefficient. I spend too much time drawing extra frames and having to throw out much of that work because it doesnt feel right.

To be more efficient. I've tried to use ai to do inbetween frames for me but unfortunately, I couldn't get tooncrafter to run on my machine. I wanted to treat AI like my own personal inbetweener while I focused on the more important drawings but I cant get the thing to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E89R5_hQ5bQ

If anyone has luck with it, its open source. Description of it in linked youtube vid.

>use the following links...
I've watched some of these before. On and off. Although things dont really stick. As I was working on this project, I rewatched some vids and I was trying to apply what I remembered. When Richard was mentioning something about arcs and figure eight motions, I unconsciously animated my tits growth scene in that pattern. Also, when Alan was talking about using straight ahead animation for drapery effects and pose to pose for the actual character, I tried to implement it. I'm thinking about how to quickly complete My next project. This one 6 sec scene is taking too dam long.

>>7597076
>study is nessesary...Eventually it gets fun...Balance studies with non studies.

I could treat the studies as a 15 min warmup exercise, playing around with balls, boxes and lines. Hell, I should use reference motions and copy them to get the gestures and line of action in a animated motion. I'd like to copy some complicated fight scene and just turn the characters into touhou characters for the funs. I haven't really gotten around to these study ideas.

>>7605819
those are mostly covered in the animator's survival kit
i was thinking more like what are some good excercises for stuff like impact frames n more anime adjacent animation tricks
i dont wanna scare my homie off with figure drawing practice right off the bat
gotta slowly ease him in with stuff he's familiar with (mostly anime weebshit)

>>7606073
>I will continue to trip and fall down the stairs until I reach some sort of destination
hey that way works too if you've got time to kill and a stubborn attitude
you do you fren just keep going at it you'll get good eventually its not rocket science
there is no magical cure-all trick to it just good ol elbow grease and hard work
don't expect much social media fame tho that shit's lightning in a bottle n mostly a game of chance

also thanks for the interesting link i'll look into this "generative interpolation" stuff sounds neat

>>7606093
groovy
the left hand still confuses me tho
he hold it up as anticipation i assume then it's folds back in at an awkward angle
there's no arching motion /smooth flow from raised up > folded back in as wind up to pointing forwards overshoot n settle
lovely bit of character acting tho very charming : DDD
got a blog?

footjobs are hard

>>7607129
Blowjobs are even harder. I dare you to try it. No, i mean it. Please draw it for me. I beg you, ill pay you for it. Plz plz draw it for me

>>7607173
Hopefully I'll do blowjobs someday

best way to reference videos? poorfag so only one monitor.

>>7606934
Thank you sar kott, I mostly post stuff on my instagram, McZee_Sketch, haven't posted much because of work but been drawing more again recently.

>tfw have barely animated at all after work this week
Bros im NGMI......

>>7607239
this is looking good
crits i'd say either keep the upper body entirely static or extend the warp to every layer, and sync the knees with their respective foot rather than each other

>>7607250
i got a free shitty monitor for free of facebook marketplace, just had to pick it up.

Any AI interpolation tools? I'm not paying hundreds of dollars to fucking kling

>>7607454
just put in the work coward
interpolation looks shit anyhow

>>7606934
Bounty's out on this question btw
can any of you anon's point to any excercises i can shove down my lad's throat

>>7607301
post more often anon san
i love your work

>>7607332
you'll persevere buddy

>>7602046
Calm down, nigga, I am trying my best

>>7607844
I like the thicc lines, what brush is it?

How can I make this animation more smooth without adding a billion more frames? Sorry I'm new to this.

What do you call the thing where each drawing of the animated sequence is shown step by step together in a single still image.

I think there's an image of a girl standing up off the floor and running. does that kind of thing have a name?

>>7608093
Do you mean onion skins?

>>7608100
Oh yeah a bit like that, but I guess not overlayed in the same place, but in an appropriate sequence or next to each other. It's often used to show running/animal gaits for example.

here's a scene that took me 2 hours to animate
would like feedback on it I suppose
https://litter.catbox.moe/t7bundmzp0qgj2oy.mp4

>>7608197
lookin good fren
very nice

>>7608254
give the arm a very slight left to right warp and obsecure the wobble top anchor with shadow/thicker outline n it will be perfect anon

bump

If i wanna animate like early NCH stuff in adobe, do i need to learn how to make puppets and stuff? Or is this sort of thing possible without any plugins

bumpin

Someday God will release me from this suffering

Do you guys think this is rotoscaped or is this guy this much of a freak? Guy must have Blender running inside his head.
https://x.com/ichibombu/status/1934386813768188036
https://x.com/ichibombu/status/1913947343407423534 (This one is insane)

>>7610791
I really like the turns of her face at the start. They feel very alive and organic. Nice work anon!

What do you guys use to animate?
I feel like Krita is alright but when I want to do some doodles or shitposts it feels like too much.
Is there something like FLipAClip but for pc?

>>7611127
Anything is possible with enough time but first one looks very rotoscoped so if it was by hand, it's just kinda bad and there's the 3d corridor so second one is likely also fully plotted out in 3d

>>7611142
Is it how much it looks like average ragdoll physics?

>>7611144
Yeah and how it's like someone else is running wearing Mika's skin lol

>>7610299
ultra cute. just you and your wifey

>>7611127
wonder if there sn easy 3d environment to 2d anim pipeline
cool stuff overall

>>7611132
try TVPaint

>>7611168
thanks anon
i love her : DDD

>>7611768
forgor to attach silly daily doodle

Boomp

Aimed low. It was fun.
Sucks that CSP Pro only lets you use 24 frames. I think I want to animate more once I can properly draw.

This thing is done. I need to learn how to cut the time spent down. I keep adding things in later that could of been added at the start, effectively ,multiplying time spent.

>>7606934
>no magical cure-all to it just good ol elbow grease and hard work
yes...Slamming my head into a brick wall until it breaks. Thats how I like to play my souls borne games. I don't always like looking at meta strategies on the most efficient way to plug my dick into a toaster socket. I know I'm pretty dim but I think I can manage to pull out my ball hairs one by one.

>>7612427
you should of gotten CSP EX back when it was $16. You get to play around with hundreds of frames. baka. Now draw the rest of the face.

>>7612333
well executed run cycle
very very cool

>>7612427
very expressive fren
i oughtta add this to the list of assignments
conveying emotions with just the eyes/eyebrows is such an under-rated acting method


>>7612445
please tell me that you made a non-futa varient

>>7612445
saw this on rule34 while gooning
good stuff

>>7611132
wick editor
https://litter.catbox.moe/b12nyado8yrbpjy3.mp4

Need to attach hair and adjust size of magia baiser. Otherwise I really like the framing here. This thing Is like 5 different animation practices in one. I like it.

>>7612978
>please tell me that you made a non-futa varient
I won't lie to you...

>>7612986
kek. Thank you.

Bumperino
running low on ideas im calling sos
hit me with prompts lads help me

>>7613914
nooooo : (
why must god punish me so

>>7614119
Can you draw meteion? ^^

I usually lurk but wanted to contribute

>>7614119
How did you discover 4chan? I know it is pretty much given nowadays to expect at least one Indian in the wild corners of Internet. But what's your story? Yeah, I am an Indian as well. And I seriously recommend you not to advertise this place to our fellow poojeet brothers.

>>7614264
>Can you draw meteion? ^^
aight thats next buddy

>>7614714
nice cat anim anon

>>7614959
started off on /po/ (yes the papercraft board) if you can believe it
was tracking down some obsecure origami pdf or something
accidentally entered /pol/ and became a shitposter there around ~2018
i was one of the nandroid posters when that was at its peak
i was also responsible for spamming that one negev yuri comic gif in /pol/ humor threads
then became a daily poster on /i/ and finally migrated here cuz its more active
yeah i agree indians need to be gatekept from this place
you dont have to "fellow indian" me to get me to say it man

>>7562684 (OP)
I've waited 6 months for this day. Its expensive as hell still... but at least its not quite as bad. I wish this wasn't my best option for long animations

>>7615062
take the kritapill retard

>>7615062
this is so retarded why do I have to pay nearly full price just to upgrade from pro to ex?

>>7615253
retard tax

Oh dang, I was out for about a week from here. Guess I should wait to post my new work in the next thread then huh

Start the voting for the next thread OP gif
I vote for the following:
>>7568005 >>7581663 >>7581732
>>7584309 >>7585364 >>7587809
>>7588100 >>7589434 >>7606093
yeah i know most of em are my own works but thats cuz you bums refuse to post (you)r works
i picked either fo r interesting motion or eyecatching color schemes
cast your votes n we'll tally em up when the thread dies
also to that one quickshot anon have patience
i will remake the thread with proper numbering, formatting, n pasta dont get too eager n name it "/anime/ general" like you did with this one
i wont be abandoning this general any time soon rest assured : DDD

>>7616148
I'm going to be vain and vote >>7588100 with my work, but also I really like >>7568005 for the motion as well

guys i made an animation in csp, and after figuring out how everything works, i love it! the 24 frame limit is killing me though, is there a program that isnt sub based that uses a similar workflow?

>>7616720
pirated csp will work I guess?

>>7616731
torrenting is work, is there really not a way to set up krita like CSP or something?

>>7616737
what

>>7616738
these free programs offer more customization, yes?

does open toonz stil crash as much as it used to?

>>7616761
someone red-pill me on opentoonz
you're telling me that the software that ghibli uses is just available for free as an open source software?
whats the catch here?
it sounds too good to be true
why isnt it industry standards yet?

tally stands at
>>7588100 (2)
>>7568005 (2)
>>7585364 (1)
>>7587809 (1)
>>7589434 (1)

Vote Vote Vote

>>7617119
would she really fire that rifle if a situation called for it

>>7617123
don't tell anyone but its actually a toothpick with some tape on it
if you tried to mess with the vote she'd cry and noone wants that

>>7617119
(^:<

>>7576883
>>7610299
>>7615004
these are the ones i secretly love the most, also hnngh long fabric in the wind.
>i just can’t figure fabric out, i’ve taken a look at all the youtube tutorials i can find and am still at a loss. if it’s a more complex piece of clothing than would work with a basic shorthand waveform, or has more than two gather points, like the line of a waist, (like a multiply split skirt) and you’re going for a kind of realistic movement, i dunno. i’m at so much of a loss i can’t even.

sorry, sidetracked there.

tough choice between these two!
-5364, -7809
but i guess i’ll go with the colored one for my vote, -5364, even if i’m secretly totally into the mesmerizing, beautiful movement of the full wing spread in the other even more.
same reason if i could pick anything:) (i’d switch my vote to this -> if so) i’d go for >>7576883, because it’d feel great to see up there. super cool.

>>7616148
extremely cute

>>7618010
>>7618010
>>7618010

New thread!

>>7618014
why the FUCK isnt the OP animated

>>7618014
>>7618041
>why the FUCK isnt the OP animated
Yeah, kind of disappointing for an animation thread ngl, especially considering the OP isn't even in the pool of votes

>>7618079
>>7618041
I don’t have any gifs saved on my phone rn, sorry guys i’ll do better

>>7618014
>>7618132
fuck you thats not the new thread
i'll make the new thread aftter about ~12 hours of this one dying

CUrrent tally stands at :
>>7588100 (2)
>>7568005 (2)
>>7585364 (1)
>>7587809 (1)
>>7589434 (1)
>>7576883 (1)
>>7610299 (1)
>>7615004 (1)

>>7617457
(you) made her cry
(you) horrible horrible anon
(you) apologize to her right now

>>7616148
>I got voted for
aw im honored :D

>>7618467
i love seeing you and your character itt so much
you keep making me remember that animation is this incredible thing and i should be having fun with it immediately. real talk, i’ve tried so many absurdly fun animation things because of you. even if i never actually say it, your work always makes me crazy happy, bro.
>whoops, it’s 4chan, so i should be crabbing, lol.
>(polite thread sage for your 12 hr thing)

>>7618880
wait who is this actually directed to

>>7618893
oh sorry, i meant the kott dude >>7618388
but if you’re someone else, both other anon entries are 100% the bomb too! sweet work!

>>7618900
nah it's fine lol, i just got really confused since i assume kottoanon authored >>7616148, so it would seem weird for him to reply to his own with >>7618467, so i thought that >>7618467 anon was one of the few animators that is not kottoanon. was just curious to see who it was that got voted for in that bunch

>>7618905
mm, yep. and np, np.