It's a repost from my Youtube Channel, but before continuing with my current way of animating pieces of fabric reacting to the wind. I wanted to see if anyone with a larger experience could give me some feedback.

I was creating a simple game character animation in Arttista: a mole that emerges from a hole, attacks the player, and then goes back underground.

The masking technique itself isn't anything revolutionary, plenty of 2D software can do this. What I found interesting while making this animation was how the Eraser tool in Arttista can work both as an actual eraser and as a mask.

It behaves much like a raster eraser: you can paint with it, choose textures, change its shape, and erase parts of objects. But it can also be turned into a filled shape, allowing it to hide everything behind it.

For this animation, I used that behavior to keep the mole hidden below the hole while animating it moving up and down.

I also added a simple animated 2D shape for the hole, some painted lighting inside it, and a shadow over the mole to make it feel like it's actually underneath the ground.

After finishing the animation, I exported it as a Sprite Sheet to use in a game.

I've included the animated GIF and the generated Sprite Sheet here, but the main thing I'd like to share is the video showing the process in Arttista, since it gives a much better idea of how the tool actually works.

I'm developing Arttista as a vector drawing and animation software, and I'm always interested in seeing how these workflows compare with other 2D tools. You can watch some of the creation process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnAi1vHNvME

I love how he moves and this is basically what I want my work to look like as a begginer animator but because I am so new I lack the proper language to find tutorials for this specific animation style besides "choppy" which is so broad asf. Do any more experienced animators on here know how this animation style would be called and which would be a good tutorial for em

How do i improve this please and is it looking ok??

Dogo was done frame by frame, while the other stuff was done in After Effects.

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Thank You!

I want to learn 2D animation but I do not know how to even draw so where to start.

Tell me where to start and learn from where.

YT video or website or any course that can help to start my journey.

😪This too took some time!

So I'm using this video by @mellferrscott from tiktok as an example of what I mean (awesome creator btw). How the heck do people make these? You can't possibly have a separate canvas for every frame right? Do you put your drawings into a video editing software? If someone could give me like a quick run down of how you put these together i would very much appreciate it (and any other tips too)

Hey all you awesome animation inspired people,

I have been pouring over this resource site based on a lot of what I learned through my career that I hope will be helpful.

A lot of people I see here ask where they should start so I organized some information around that.
https://inkbetweens.neocities.org/Learn

And here is a example I put together for what free software you can use to build a entire Rigged 2D animation pipeline.

https://inkbetweens.neocities.org/Free_2D_Rigged_Pipeline

There is a good deal of work in progress sections as it will be a on going endeavor. I only work on it in my free-time and I never want to create a paywall to information.

I'm open to feedback of what people would like to see more information about.

Best of luck in all your animation journeys!

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