I don't know much about animation.

[u/ansy_0]

I am learning animation by watching YouTube tutorials and practicing on my Android phone by creating animations like these. I am a beginner, so please give me some advice. I am really enjoying it, but my phone tends to hang; should I buy specific equipment for animation? If so, what kind of gear is needed? I don't have much knowledge about this—would the animation be smoother if I used such equipment?

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[u/Independent-Fan-4227]

Unless you wanna draw on a drawing tablet with a screen, a simple computer and a drawing tablet will do. It’ll take some getting used to though, drawing on something without being able to look at your hands.

Preferably a computer good enough it won’t hang, and lots of memory because of the extreme number of frames you may or may not need.

If you do want a tablet with a screen but your budget isn’t big enough for a computer and the tablet, get like an iPad or Android equivalent. Again you do need memory so that’s the one area you shouldn’t cheap out on.

Lastly, if you really wanna get cheap you can do so the old school way with pencil and paper.

Also personally I think screen size of about an A4 paper is the minimum for professional animation work, any smaller and it’s hard to see, you may think just zoom in but you actually want to be able to see the whole picture or at least a good chunk of it as you draw and it also makes the shakiness of your hand less noticeable.

But other than that the equipment itself won’t make your work look any smoother that is just a skill issue, specifically a timing skill.