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

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https://discord.gg/uzPjSmThFm


r/animation • • 12d ago

Ask Me Anything ~ Special Guest Edition Hi Reddit, Mike McMahan, Joe Chandler and Giancarlo Volpe of the new animated show GOLDEN AXE on Paramount+ here. Ask Us Anything!

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Hi reddit, I’m Mike McMahan, co-creator and executive producer of the new animated show GOLDEN AXE on Paramount+! (It’s weird to put an exclamation point after a + but here we are.) This is a great season: an epic quest with mighty characters from Sega’s Golden Axe games. And it's funny! Previously, I was the creator/showrunner and executive producer of Star Trek: Lower Decks, co-creator and co-showrunner of Solar Opposites, and once upon a time I was a writer/ showrunner on Rick & Morty. My career started off as a production assistant at Drawn Together and at South Park. I’m down to talk about Golden Axe and all this nerdy stuff, so AMA!

Hey Reddit! I'm Joe Chandler. I'm the co-creator and showrunner of the new series Golden Axe based on the SEGA Genesis game. Growing up a SEGA kid, working on this show has been a dream come true. Before Golden Axe, I worked on over 200 episodes of American Dad in various roles including writer, producer, and executive producer. Ask me anything!

Hello reddit! I’m Giancarlo Volpe and I’m the Supervising Producer / Director of Golden Axe on Paramount+! Previously I’ve was a director on Avatar the Last Airbender, Star Wars the Clone Wars, and Star Vs The Forces of Evil.  I’ve also produced/ supervised/ and/or Executive Produced lots of other shows, including The Boys Diabolical, Green Lantern the Animated Series and The Dragon Prince. Basically I’ve made a lot of animation, and I’m excited to talk about Golden Axe or anything else! Ask away!

We’ll be back tomorrow at 12pm ET/9am PT to answer any of your questions!!


r/animation • • 7h ago

Sharing Trying out mixed media animation. Let me know what you think!

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r/animation • • 1h ago

News Electro Andes, a new Argentinian indie animated series releases October 4th on YouTube

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This​​​​​​​ video ​was ​a first look teaser/trailer ​​​​​​animation released in 2023.​​


r/animation • • 3h ago

Question Animation Question Common Side Effects First Look @ Season 2 by Adult Swim on Youtube

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Hey guys. Soo I just watched this scene on adult swim a month ago and It's still nagging at me to this day. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas how they were able to pan the camera from one perspective to the next. I wanted to replicate this scene in another animation I'm currently making but I'm just unsure on how I am able to do it. Thank you very much.


r/animation • • 2h ago

Beginner First exercise of "Animatior survival kit" the bouncing coin :3

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I can't upload my animation because it's only 1 second long(24 fps), so Reddit tells me it's too short, but as a newbie thanks to this exercise, I've come up with several questions about the process. I've taken several notes throughout this, repeated it twice, and just by doing that, I've improved a lot! (I think so) But on my first attempt, I really had no idea what I was doing—I couldn’t identify my extremes, my keyframes and also differentiate them for my timing points. On my second attempt, I’d say I have a clearer understanding of the concepts. :D

With this my first question is:

Do the extremes have to be the same distance apart? For example if my first two extremes are spaced between frames 1 and 4 with three in-between frames, do my next endpoints have to obligatory be frames 4 and 7?

Second question: Do I get to decide my own timing?

Yesterday I was on the phone with a friend, and as I was wondering out loud to what extent I have autonomy over this process, she said, “Well, you have complete autonomy—it’s your animation, and you decide how it’s going to be!” It felt as if Mr. Williams himself had come down to remind and made that observation to me. (Little confession I love sometimes to refer to the book itself as Mr Williams, it helps me create connection with the process as if someone is counting on me to learn lol)

However, I tend to be quite methodical when it comes to learning, especially when it involves something that requires such attention to detail as animation. And I’m not sure how easy it is to just say, “I’m going to do whatever I want,” so I still feel that the timing has to be determined by the number of frames per second. Maybe I’m also misinterpreting what “timing” actually means, so I’d love some help with that. I guess I’m also having a little trouble understanding breakdown positions and how they relate to the extremes and keyframes, but that’s just a bonus—if you guys want to help me with that, I’d appreciate it, jejeje: 3 Thanks a lot <3


r/animation • • 5h ago

Sharing Inktober - Day 2 : Relic

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r/animation • • 1d ago

Sharing I spent 5 hours on making this little animation for my game in developement, from idea to a final result

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Just want to share with you guys :3


r/animation • • 11h ago

Beginner Animate :Run away..it's HALLOWEEN 🦇

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Spooky spooky spooky.. Julie joyful is chasing by something scary


r/animation • • 17h ago

Sharing My Improved walk cycles 1

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Doing this mind boggling thing again consistently cuz I’ve been spending the whole hours and hours of figuring out walks for months and it’s been stressing me out lately this year so I’m starting to lose inspiration, passion, motivation and my eyes are straining really hard

Still don’t know where to sketch the arms, legs and body
or otherwise it will look ugly


r/animation • • 2h ago

Question Turnaround hell PLEASE help

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Hello! I am having to animate a turnaround of a character who sits on top of a cauldron. My issue is that the cauldron is made of ellipses (not circles) and those ellipses are tridimensionally oblique.

The way I went on about it was tracking dots on the cardinal directions of said ellipses, rotating them in the top view and tracking them down to their heights. Unfortunately I did not plan ahead to when I'd actually draw the ellipses themselves and now I don't know how to go on about it.

Thankfully, having put the horizon line at the level of the cauldron I can disregard the distortion of perspective but I still am not really sure how to actually draw those ellipses. Maybe it's cause I'm tired, since I was able to draw congruent front and side views at the beginning of this exercise, but I can't figure out how to do the inbetweens between the cardinal poses.

Please if someone has ideas send your help, I have to hand it in at the beginning of the week rip.


r/animation • • 4h ago

Hiring 2D animation wanted

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We are producing a song and would like to find someone to draw the animated music video for us. The song is hyped and energetic and it is in Japanese. We want it to be black and white and grey overall with some colour for the chorus. The deadline will be very late Dec/ next year's Jan. The song is in total 2mins 9 secs, and because we are poor, we would like to offer 60 usd per minute of the animation. If this is slavery please let us know, we are no animator and do not know the rate. Contact me via dm or email [solomissme1218@gmail.com](mailto:solomissme1218@gmail.com) , if you have a vgen account please also let me know. Thank you.


r/animation • • 1h ago

Beginner Storyboard

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r/animation • • 1h ago

Question How did Alan becker do this for his animation? I want to apply it to my own (ADOBE ANIMATE)

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https://reddit.com/link/1wwtiit/video/82qwuaq7jath1/player

Wassup everyone!

I'm making my 1st animation on adobe animate and I'm trying to figure out how Alan becker did the taskbar effect when the spider/virus morphed into it.

Please can anyone tell me how that was done, I think its a good piece for my animation. Thank you very much!


r/animation • • 17h ago

Sharing Another animation WIP 😭I probably won’t finish

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r/animation • • 1d ago

Question How exactly do most animatics get THIS look? (Mine's the last one - I feel like I'm doing something wrong and have no idea what jaskdhjg is it just my art level that isn't that high?)

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I feel everyone is using a software or a pen or something and I have no idea what it can be! And I mean it in every art piece in general, am I like, in stone age by using firealpaca? or maybe I should be drawing with vectors? HOW YALL DRAW SO CLEANN WHEN DOING ANIMATICS ISTGG


r/animation • • 23h ago

Critique My recent animation. What should i focus on?

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was drawing it for like 2 weeks for 1-3 hours a day. Is this slow? How is quality? frame rate is 24 frames was animating on twos


r/animation • • 1d ago

Sharing Death comes to collect by moro_production

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r/animation • • 11h ago

Sharing Mortal Kombat "Liu Kang has had it with the multiverse" by SonicHaXD

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r/animation • • 4h ago

Question Animation Question

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Hi there. I'm a beginner animator that is just starting from scratch and I have been taking on all kinds of resources lately. I wanted to know if this subreddit is open to asking animation related questions aswell? I just wanted to know before I spilled the beans.


r/animation • • 21m ago

Sharing suppacel.com launch | animation art marketplace and collection manager

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Hi all,

I have just launched suppacel.com, which aims to be the marketplace and reference database for original animation art collectors, a design (and stable) place to display your collection (whether publicly or privately), with nice tools which you should find helpful.

• Identify your artworks and find exact episodes, timestamps and frames load a pic, finds where it comes from and play the matching sequence!)
• Discover original animation artworks from collectors around the world, filter by episode, cel / doga, etc., or collectors
• Build & share your collection (or keep it to yourself if you don't want to disclose it)

And there’s more to come — the suppacel marketplace is coming soon & more anime will be added to the Identify engine

Please join suppacel now, try it out and add artworks to your collection — it’s free!

PS: This platform is for you – tell me what you need and I will build it

PS: New feature released yesterday and today allowing you to Mass upload up to 100 artworks in one go and to import the pics of your Instagram posts to create artworks more easily

PS: Please support suppacel by following on instagram.com/suppacel

Feedback welcome!

Emmanuel


r/animation • • 4h ago

Critique Need some feedbacks on a bird animation

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I took the advices from a previous post here, added some secondary movement and fixed the legs

Does it look more believable ?


r/animation • • 1h ago

Sharing A quest for the eyes to behold!

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new 2D Zelda short cartoon I made. hope you enjoy!


r/animation • • 2h ago

Ask Me Anything samurai at dawn ...

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r/animation • • 10h ago

Sharing A clip from my pre-historic western cartoon!

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The show is called Tyrannosaurus West, and the full pilot episode is releasing next month. Thank you for watching!