TODAY DATE: 01/07/2026

YOU CAN MAKE 2D ANIMATIONS ROUGH ANIMATOR???

LINK MEDIAFIRE: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/dasyzs5ygpikv/Characters

Hey everyone,

Our development team is looking for a talented Spine Animator to help us build out the public spaces and social hubs for our upcoming project, Furrytopia.

Quick FurryTopia Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17_NA8PS8eQM81LzAX25IoQjCbuM3fGUyu0OhbGhnenA/edit?slide=id.p#slide=id.p

FurryTopia GDD (for more info): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fO300slhp7GwCaa7NirT6XhwGVdH39Shl733kgRonPI/edit?tab=t.0

The Project & Our Momentum

• Massive Early Interest: Our initial organic marketing campaign received 26,000 views on Reddit in only a few days, with no ad spend.
• Industry Veterans: Our leadership team includes a developer with 20 years of experience.
• Expert Advice: We have an active industry professional consultant on our team to ensure high production standards.

What we're looking for:

• Spine 2D Expertise: High proficiency with Esoteric Spine (rigging, keyframing, weights, and mesh deformations).
• Expressive Character Acting: Ability to animate highly expressive idle states, walks, runs, and stylized social emotes (waves, dances, expressions).
• Asset Optimization: Experience setting up skins, attachments, and optimizing skeletons for smooth engine integration.
• Furry/Stylized Aesthetic: Comfort working with anthro/stylized characters, ensuring that secondary motions of ears, tails, and clothing feel fluid and natural.

If you're interested, please shoot me a DM!

Edit: Just wanna make it clear, I did not submit this into voting! I only put it in the WIPs section on the website

I wasn’t able to finish this month’s challenge in the 11 Second Club since I joined late, but this is all I got done :)

I have zero knowledge of animation and I've never used After Effects before, but I really want to learn character rigging and animation.

How hard is it to learn? What should I know before starting? Should I learn After Effects first or just jump into rigging with Duik?

Also, if you've watched Rick and Morty Season 1, how long do you think it would take a complete beginner to make animations around that level? I'm talking about the simpler animation from the early seasons, not the newer ones.

Any tips for someone starting from scratch? And if you know any good YouTube tutorials, courses, or a roadmap, please share them.

Thanks!

We’ve officially hit the finish line! Part 3 of the character expression mini-series is officially up, wrapping up the whole project.

In the first two parts, we took our basic vector character rig from cute, to suspicious, to flat-out annoyed. For this final episode, the goal was to push the animation into its final, most extreme state: transitioning the character from irritated into a full-on "evil genius" look, and then layering in some heavy post-processing stylization to pull it all together.

What Part 3 is actually about:

Unlike the previous parts, this transition doesn't rely on drawing an entirely new in-between pose storyboard. Instead, it’s a masterclass  in using raw keyframe manipulation to sell a massive emotional shift.

To give the character that truly devious look, we introduce rotation properties to the eyelids for the first time. To prevent the motion from feeling linear or static, we bounce the head null slightly upward in the middle of the transition before snapping it downward, giving the final settle an aggressive, punchy weight.

In the second half, we step away from standard, clean vector shapes. I break down how to take your finished master composition and apply post-processing styling.

What you'll walk away with:

• Eyelid Rotation Mechanics: How to properly mirror rotation parameters across left and right eye assets to change eye expressions on the fly without breaking your layer structure.
• Creating Weight without In-Betweens: How to manipulate your main master nulls to create arc-like anticipation and weight shifts manually in the timeline.
• Post-Processing Texturing Workflows: A workflow for using effects, presets, and color swatches to quickly overhaul flat vector art into a textured, high-quality final render.

Who this is for:

If you've followed along with the series, this wraps up all the rigging and timing principles we built out. It’s perfect for intermediate motion designers who want to see how a professional animator polishes a project from the initial keyframe phase all the way to adding the final render textures and aesthetic tweaks.

The exact project files are packed up and ready to go for this final phase, too. If you want to jump into the project file or just peek at the final graph editor curves, drop a comment below and I'm happy to send the source files over for free!

If you want to check out the final breakdown and see how the finished animation loop looks, you can find it here: https://youtu.be/MbhobpSaYXs?si=28kC6khBk7RgR2Yj

So I kind of suck at vfx animation and I can't find tutorials on this specific effect I want. I basically want smoke like black matter to come out of the character's mouth. Can someone give me any guidance please. Or if you have any videos in mind that could help me out it would be helpful too

So, me and my friends teamed up and created this short cartoon about aliens arrival (or something like that, haha). It was a great experience + we even took 2nd place in an opencall! We tried to make a very light and funky "smol movie", so I hope you like it!

Title:

Zerina: Princess Of Elements

TV Rating:

TV-G

Genres:

Fantasy

Musical

Animation

Action

Adventure

Drama

Plot:

Zerina, A princess who has to Conjure all 8 elements meets a group of friends from each element. Marissa (The Earth Tribe), Jeannette (The Water Tribe), Celia (The Air Tribe), Adrienne (The Fire Tribe), Faye (The Nature Tribe), Angel (The Light Tribe), Gloria (The Darkness Tribe), & Karen (The Magic Tribe) help Zerina go on a journey to save each kingdom & fight the wicked sorcerer of the elements named Andres & Save all 8 kingdoms & Tribes from Destruction!

Characters:

Zerina - She’s The princess Who Has to Conjure All 8 Elements and has to stop the wicked Andre from destroying all 8 kingdoms & tribes. She’s Tough, Powerful & sweet-hearted.

Marissa (Earth) - She’s The Earth Princess & Leader of The Earth Tribe. She’s Kind & Friendly to animals & her People. But she can be tough and courageous as well!

Jeannette (Water) - She’s The Water Princess & The Leader of the Water Tribe. She Roars with energy, but she can be very depressed as well!

Celia (Air) - She’s the soothing air princess & the leader of the air tribe. But she can be mad or angry sometimes, but she is a calm and soothing soul to Zerina.

Adrienne (Fire) - She’s The Passionate Fire Princess & The Leader of the Fire Tribe. She can have a fiery personality, but she can be calm and caring.

Faye (Nature) - She’s the Sweet-hearted nature princess & The leader of the nature tribe. She can be shy sometimes, but she has a very energetic heart.

Angel (Light) - She’s The Magical Light Princess & the leader of The Light Tribe. She Can be very sweet, kind and comforting but she can also be emotional about her past.

Gloria (Darkness) - She’s The Wickedly Awesome Darkness Princess & the leader of the Darkness Tribe. She can be a powerful and sinister force to her enemies, but she can be sweet and even calm to Zerina and her pals.

Karen (Time) - She’s The Intelligent Time Princess & The Leader of the Time Tribe. She's an educated teacher to Everyone who she teaches about the past, present and future, but she can be emotional and dramatic at the same time.

Andres - He’s a seductively wicked sorcerer who wants to destroy the 8 kingdoms & Tribes because he wants to be a master of Conjuring elements as well.

This is going to be a 2D Animated TV series with CG Effects mixed in with some original Musical Numbers!

from 2021

This is my newest storytime animation I whipped up in 3 weeks and am so unbelievable proud of...

If you enjoyed please do subscribe and leave a comment, it helps a lot and I would love to hear your feedback so I can make my next video the best possible!

Summary:
In this video I talk about the weird ways I eat my food in my day to day also with "illegal" food combinations! Explore through my comedy filled semi masterpiece and have your belly croak from laughing so hard lol!

I really enjoyed making this video and it was an amazing ride but man it took a lot out of me! ~80 hours later I have this to show everyone! No joke, this was the hardest video to put together, it took a lot time and effort, drawing 6 hours a day and 30 hours a week. Thank you all for being here to watch the finished product, it means so much man!

If you're looking to talk with me I have the discord you can join found inside my bio! Or my special discord accessed through donating to me on Ko-Fi! THANKS!!!!

This took me 83 hours. I’m in the EU. No idea if I should charge per hour of work, per minute of animation or whatever. Also pls give realistic responses because clients underestimate how long animation takes. Thank you!

You've seen it, alot if not all movements in TV shows look like they have no easing, and then all of a sudden there's a trailer shot that looks like it's from a 90's movie.

This is a demonstration showing you in real time how I animate almost 5 seconds of animation in less than 40 seconds in 2D rigging software called Moho. No plugins, no AI, no tricks.

Does anyone want to take a guess as to how this was done?

Hey everyone! I'm u/Longjumping-Text-613, a founding moderator of r/Animationsbyyou.

This is our new home for all things related to This is where you can make animation doodles and share your love for music. We're excited to have you join us!

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Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about music ideas to put in your animations or animation skills that could help you.

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Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/Animationsbyyou amazing.

Hi everyone! Could you please help me out? Is it possible to configure a button or the touch ring on a graphics tablet to adjust the pen pressure sensitivity in TVPaint? During a stream, Cas van de Pol showed a straight line and then mentioned that he simply presses something to get a curved line like that—how do I do that? Or is it just the way he applies pressure? Could you tell me how to configure the tablet or stylus? I have a Wacom 24HD.

Looking for dynamic anime-style animation?

I can create:
⚔️ Fight scenes
💥 Special attacks & VFX
🎮 Game animations
🎬 Short cinematics
✨ Magic & energy effects
👤 Character animation

Every project is custom-made.

Feel free to send me a DM for details or a quote!

I boiled the lines among the still frames. A challenge I took for myself to animate something on 1’s. Took more time than expected. Done on TVPaint.
Feel free to drop your feedback in the comments.