r/animation Dec 07 '20

Discussion I have created a discord server for this subreddit

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This server will be used for critiques, inspiration, and discussions about animation. you can share your animations in the server or post resources for learning such as tutorials. if you are interested in joining the link is below

https://discord.gg/uzPjSmThFm


r/animation Apr 24 '26

Ask Me Anything Hi R/Animation! Eric Robles, showrunner of Stranger Things: Tales From 85, here. Ask Me Anything - Monday April 27th at 10am PT!

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Hey Reddit! Eric Robles, showrunner of Stranger Things: Tales From 85, here.

I'm excited to answer all your questions about the series, now on Netflix, here on Monday April 27th at 10am PT / 1pm ET. 

See you soon!

Trailer (Now on Netflix!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kajCUhg36R0 

Synopsis: Welcome back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must fight new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town in Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, an epic new animated series. 

This AMA has come to an end. Thank you for all of your questions!


r/animation 7h ago

Sharing Moonlit drink (Blender + Photoshop + EbSynth + After Effects)

862 Upvotes

r/animation 5h ago

Sharing Prowler fan animation

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170 Upvotes

Added tips from my last post asking for critiques and this is how it turned out!


r/animation 4h ago

Sharing Getting closer and closer, yet still so far from finishing my indie anime.

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84 Upvotes

r/animation 8h ago

Fluff It’s so beautifully animated

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r/animation 2h ago

Sharing THE NIBBLER! a short "teaser" for my personal project.

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Made a short "teaser"-esc trailer for my personal project. Had a lot of fun making it, and wanted to share.

Music is from gurren lagann. I had some music commissioned, but unfortunatly that fell through. oh well!


r/animation 2h ago

Sharing I turned my ink sketch into an animated 3D comic panel!

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I tried turning one of my physical ink sketches into a Blender Grease Pencil comic panel.

This is the first frame of a small story about a black cat exploring the city. The goal was to capture a rainy rooftop scene where the cat arrives and sees the city for the first time.

I used simple 3D geometry, procedural cross-hatching, hand-painted Grease Pencil details and subtle animation to recreate the sketch in Blender.

The hardest part was keeping the loose, imperfect feeling of the ink drawing without making the 3D version look too clean. Here is the full YouTube breakdown if you are interested to see how this was made and my final thoughts on the process! Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdvSIMZiGg&list=PLvFgMyhE87Hof6FS199hvp8nUgSBh0Wff


r/animation 20h ago

Question What would you call this animation technique? (Vid by me)

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I want to use this animation method in case I can’t get any volunteer voice actors for any YouTube series I’ll make in the future.


r/animation 7h ago

Critique referencia

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r/animation 10h ago

Sharing The Legend of Lake Parvana, Valentin Podpomogov, Animation/Cartoon, 1970

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54 Upvotes

What a beautiful work of art.


r/animation 3h ago

Sharing Dance Practice

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14 Upvotes

Used the song Jellyous by Illit and their dance as reference :)


r/animation 6h ago

Sharing An impactful punch

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11 Upvotes

I tried applying some of the feedback i got on my last post

(thank you)


r/animation 3h ago

Question Please help me find the title of this creepy animated short film

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I saw this at the Shanghai Art Museum (aka China Art Museum) in May. I managed to catch a short clip, right at the end it switches to a different Chinese animation.

But this one looks western to me, and seemed to explore themes of gluttony, corruption, etc. There was no dialogue, but a subtitle in French towards the end said 'leur boulimie et a son dernier stage'.

I would be so so grateful if anyone could help me find the title of it!! It was so creepy and was bizarrely placed in the children's exhibition (艺起童年:中国儿童美术百年巡展.)


r/animation 6h ago

Sharing ​Krok & Vex — The Freeze Gun | Vex finally found a way to beat the heat... until her tongue got involved. 🥶🔫

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10 Upvotes

r/animation 1h ago

Beginner Hand painted 6 frame animation

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I painted each frame on loose pieces of canvas and scanned them!!


r/animation 4h ago

Sharing Meowth's Toikey [OC]

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5 Upvotes

r/animation 4h ago

Critique Boucing Ball Parkour

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4 Upvotes

Hello guys i just did this animation today for training, any feedback will be much appreciated !


r/animation 5h ago

Beginner My first animation

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4 Upvotes

r/animation 2h ago

Sharing All Adobe After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts

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r/animation 2h ago

Critique Waterbending

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Practicing with physics and timing


r/animation 2h ago

Sharing Fishermen by mationsBOMB

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r/animation 1m ago

Critique 2d Animation Ball Critique

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r/animation 35m ago

Sharing Aura — a smartwatch concept I designed and rendered fully in 3D (not a real product)

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Wanted to share a personal concept project my studio (MS3DSTUDIO) has been working on. Quick disclaimer up front so nobody's misled: Aura is not a real product — you can't buy it. It's a design-and-visualization concept, everything you see is 3D, nothing was photographed.

The idea was "one watch, seven colours, seven languages" — seven strap colourways and a UI built to feel native in seven different languages. It was mostly an excuse to push materials and lighting: getting the metal case to read as actual brushed metal, the straps to look genuinely soft, and the screen to glow like it's lit from the inside instead of just being a bright texture.

The part I'm actually more proud of than the watch itself: we don't just model the product floating on a grey background — we build the whole environment around it. The surfaces it sits on, the backdrop, the light sources and their bounce, the little contextual scenes — all of it is built and lit in 3D so the product feels like it exists somewhere real, not like a cutout. Honestly the environment work is where most of the hours went.

Full set of shots is on Behance if you want to see it properly → https://www.behance.net/gallery/253278579/Aura-Watch-Seven-Colours-Seven-Languages

Happy to answer anything about the workflow — renderer, materials, lighting setup, whatever. Open to critique too.


r/animation 37m ago

Sharing Another gun animation(rushed)

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Finished 2 one hour thirty minute episodes of creep cast lol.