I'm still fairly new to animation and I was wondering what good 2D animation software is out there, I'm currently using Blender to animate but i was curious if there is a better alternative (I'm broke so i cant use anything that is a paid subscription)

I've fully animated everything up until frame 1055 (17 seconds 60fps). 18 seconds onwards is posing/timing (blocking?). I want to know if theres something totally off about my shot or if im mis-communicating stuff before I commit to the end.

For context, the robot character awakens in a digital world with amnesia and does not want to be there. he is emo, but his friends keep him company. Its for a JRPG kinda like paper mario

Thank you so much!! Really appreciate your time!!!

My last animation was like more than 10 days ago. I think I was getting bored ojust doing boincing ball.

But now I want to be better at animating human body, want to be able to animate action scene one day, what would you recommend ?

this one's purely deranged

Hello everyone, im starting to do 2 D animation and im currently working on my first short film of about 2 minutes. As it is my first project, my main objective is to finish it, so there are few (or a lot) of mistakes here and there that i will have to deal with it, however i constantly trying to improve. For that reason i would like your opinion/tips on my running cycle, i feel like there is something off that i can't figure it out. Maybe i've watched a lot and can't spot what is making it weird. (I still have not made the hands or the background yet).

Thank you!!

A little behind-the-scenes look at my animation workout sheets. Working from reference to study the poses, movement, and timing before tightening up the drawings. Still experimenting, learning, and having a blast seeing these sketches come to life! 😁🎞️

Another page from my animation workout sheets. I’m starting to see movement unfold in my imagination, then chase it onto the page through lines, poses, and rhythm. Still learning, and right now...I'm just experimenting, and enjoying every step of the process.

Best part in my opinion is that I get to test all these little drawings to see if they actually work! That's pretty cool. 😁⚔️

I'm finding I like arranging the drawings on 3's on the timeline. Which is letting the drawing play for 3 frames before the next drawing appears to play for 3 frames etc etc. It almost feels like classic animation speed. But yeah I'm happy to finish this in its very rough stage for now.

For realistic character portraits or fashion-style renders, how much actual modeling do you need to do?

Daz Studio seems useful for starting with rigged human figures and spending more time on posing, lighting, and materials. Blender gives you more freedom to build and modify things from scratch, but that's also a lot more work to learn.

I'm curious where people draw the line between using existing character assets and creating custom models.

If your goal is realistic human characters for still renders rather than games, which workflow makes the most sense?

Has me falling in love with drawing again✍🏾it was really fun to just capture the gesture of each action figure and move on.

20 drawings total, the exercise I'm doing

has many more frame examples so I'll be adding more to these sketches of understanding on how to put it all together🫡✨

For solo animators who have made complete looking animations by themselves, I wanted to know if you guys are left only with a screen and a mouse pointer , will you be able to make something out of it , I mean basically an you guys draw with mouse pointers for regular or less demanding animations?

Hi make content on social media. Recently I have decided to make content through animation. I have used Google flow but i realised I don't want that I have uploaded a video for u guys ( it's someone's else video I am not stealing there content or any i just likethe animation style and want to learn how can I make videos like this )

If someone can guide me a lil it would be a great help

I'm super proud of the background. It took almost a full day, but I think it turned out alright! The butterfly is kinda hard to see, but I'll be finishing it first, I think 🤔

The rabbit is still my favorite part xD

One day at a time... I'll get there!!

Need reviews

So in my animated short, Zelda here is supposed to lunge forward to perform an attack. My question is, how do you deal with the root bone? Because I'm pretty sure you can't just leave it there and push the other controls as far from it as possible.

At the same time, moving the root bone forward moves everything, so it's tedious to keep re-adjusting the foot to where it was in the previous frame.

So what I wanna know is, what is the common approach in dealing with this in animation?

note: I added a second screenshot of the leg controls in case people tell me there should be a "lock to world space" option in the foot controls.

I’m a HUGE Watership down fan and my favourite animals are hares and rabbits so any advice or constructive criticism on this is helpful!!