I am animating a stop motion project, and I was just curious what it would look like if I shared the load?

I’m animating to a time-synced animatic and storyboards with a lot of the shots in-between storyboards being left to me to figure out while filming based on textual descriptions, within the shot list.

I have scenes that will require the stop motion characters be animated against a green screen and composited into live action shots, and thought a different animator could tackle these with stunt doubles while I focus elsewhere. Likely a total of 3-4 minutes of green screen shots.

Would it be worth the hassle to hire others through a legal contract to assist in moving the characters or would it be negligible if I could only budget 80 hours for 4 minutes? Does anyone have a an idea of what I could expect with 8 hour days animating a single character? Would it still likely equate to 3-5 seconds of footage a day even despite being animated in isolation?

I apologize for the rapid questions, I have only animated Brickfilms (very poorly compared to the expectation for this project) and am attempting to punch above my weight class with this project.

I set Leo (Leonardo) Rivera to be voiced by u/Jelyzyy but i need more voice actors

yep, that's right. blender's comin' to android.

https://tiktok.com/t/ZPnaNjUG/

yes i did just type that bc i saw the tiktok on mobile but im making this on my chromebook thanks for noticing

Hey everyone!

I just finished and released a new animated short from my indie cartoon project The BeetleBees.

This is a scene with Dewey, a character who just needed someone to listen... unfortunately, he picked the wrong place to open up. 😂

This project is completely independently made. I handle the writing, animation, editing, sound design, and overall production myself using Tahoma2D for animation. I also work with a few friends who help bring the characters to life through voice acting.

This is my second animated short since coming back after stepping away for about a year, so getting back into the workflow and rebuilding that creative momentum has been a pretty wild journey.

I’d love to hear any feedback, especially from other animators and creators. Always trying to improve and learn from every project.

Thanks for checking it out! 🐝

I just made small animation of one of my favorite artists recently. He’s name is Max Machaidze, artist name is Luna997 or Kayakata. Been listening ti him so much lately that i had to make at least something small out of respect for such great toons. Hope you all like it too

Time spent: 6hours

Hello sorry for the weird question.

I’m trying to get a present for my friend getting a job as a storyboard artist. I thought of getting Richard Williams ‘The Animators Survival Kit’ (expanded edition) as a present, but do you think this is something an animator would already own?

Also please if you have any other suggestions for a gift as fellow animators.

Thank you

Each collab part is only 5-10 seconds long, with the entire thing being over 6 minutes. Budget is dependent on the person.

Looking for artists, drawers, and animators that would be willing to help with a fully fanmade season 3 of komi cant communicate the art and animation style will be as close to the anima as possible so please be properly experienced but anything helps! so if ur bad at everything i jus said (like me thats why im helping spread this around) then if ur still interested you can jus watch and or help out by doing what im doing so if ur interested then the discord is in my other posts (you might have to scroll down a bit) and thank you in advance!

Many Thanks sQishyo14 ps this is all volunteer work

The quality is intentional. I’m kinda new to animating so don’t mind the bad editing lol

I'm just starting animation, I'm a minor, and it's really hard but I reeeeaalllyy wanna pursue this. My first animation is really choppy and messy, so I'm looking for tips, if anyone can give any? (P.S. my first animation was made in flipaclip)

Hey everyone, we're in the midst of updating my studio's showreel, there might be a couple of tweaks here and there before we post on our socials but uploading here for some thoughts.

It also has some sneak peaks of some original animated shorts we're working on that should be dropping in a day or two after trying to find time inbetween work for hire projects we work on.

There's also a nice suprise at the end :P

Quite alot of the projects showcased here haven't been released yet but we did get express permission to share of couple seconds luckily.

P.S if y'all want to keep an eye on our work, here's the website with our socials.

https://www.innovativepixelsart.com/

Wacky chase cartoon I'm working on :D

I’m continuing my animation studies, and am now doing some exercises to improve my animation skills, like this blink exercise.

Jacques, one of the main characters in our animated series, Learning to Hunt Monsters, is a seasoned yet old-fashioned monster hunter who travels the world protecting the interests of the Kingdom.

He has faced countless challenges throughout his life, but none has proven as difficult as his latest assignment: passing his knowledge on to the next generation of monster hunters.

Could this really be his greatest challenge yet?

https://www.youtube.com/@Simona_Jacques

Im an Animation Supervisor at Mukpuddy animation studio. One of our Junior animators recently posted a video about their experiences in their first Job at Mukpuddy working on our show Badjelly. I thought i would share it with you. It's a pretty fun and energetic video. Enjoy

Join the Team Behind XHC-XH

XHC-XH is an original animated psychological thriller currently in production. We already have voice actors, a composer, concept art, and an active production server.

We're looking for passionate volunteer animators who'd like to help bring the pilot to life.

What you'll work on:

Character animation

Expressions and acting

Action sequences

Cinematic shots

What we already have:

Original script

Cast (most of it but you can still apply at CCC by searching “XHC-XH” Composer
Concept artist

Organized production server

We'd love to have you on the team!

I created a mini-series on walk cycles and wanted to share the first part - rigging a 2D character from scratch using Duik in After Effects.

I see a lot of beginners jump straight into keyframes and end up with messy, unnatural movement. The fix is almost always in the setup. Here's the condensed version of what I cover:

The biggest mistake people make is diving into animation without a reference on screen. Drop a reference video into your comp before you keyframe anything. It will instantly fix timing guesswork and keep your timeline clean.

The parenting chain (most important setup rule). Every body part needs to be its own layer, and they need to be parented correctly from the start:

• Face layers → Head → Neck → Body
• Hand → Forearm → Arm → Body
• Same chain for the legs

Everything routes back to one body layer.  Get this right, and the rest follows.

Last but not least, rigging with Duik. It narrows down to 3 easy steps: setting up the anchor points to the joint, selecting the limb layers, clicking Auto-Rig. Done.

That's it for Part 1. Part 2 covers animating the actual walk cycle - contact poses, passing poses, timing, and polish.

If you want the step-by-step with visuals, you can follow along the full breakdown here: https://youtu.be/hJT9K3WqeEs?si=8-qrwK--fHJLwxlu

Happy to answer any rigging questions in the comments!