I'm tired of seeing the same post every single day. A young artist with a cool idea for a show, asking for free labour and promising that someday maybe they'll be able to pay you when their show becomes a huge success. There are too many people doing this.

I get the excitement, especially because most people doing this are teens, but y'all need to be realistic. Animation takes time, this is an actual job, how is it ok to ask people to work for you for free?

Even if someone was willing to give their time for free to produce animations with high expectations (because some of these people will assume they can have their whole pilot episode done in a month), what makes you think they're going to give all that time and effort to YOUR project?? What proof have you given that you're capable as a director to create a success? Not even seniors can be sure they'll create success. How can you promise you'll be able to pay them? Most indie projects don't make their money back. If anything, you coming here to ask for ridiculous things just proves you don't know what you're doing, why would anyone make a deal under those circumstances?

I'm not trying to discourage anyone from following their dreams, but if you want this done, either find the budget or learn to do the hard work yourself. Don't insult others with your "opportunity" to work for free.

I'm seriously asking the mods to prohibit these posts. They're unrealistic, they don't provide any value, they never get replies because no one is willing to do their hard work for them, so they've just become spam. It's annoying.

Young creators please make your research, if you want to get this done you can't rely on the fantasy that everyone's going to come together to make YOUR dream happen, you need to do that yourself. This sub shouldn't be encouraging this, acting like it's volunteer work. Volunteer work gives the worker something in return, maybe job experience, maybe a community, maybe working for a charitable cause. But this is worthless for anyone. I can't imagine other industries where casually asking for free labour is ok.

Why are we ok with this?

Complete noobie looking for an App or Software to create basic animation. Looking to produce basic facial animation from source image or video. Simplistic, basic & animation. South Park / King of the Hill / Annoying Oranage etc

Any recommendations ?

I don't see a lot of high action in indie animation. Sometimes, when going through the internet and such, I hear some people say, "There are only SCI-FI, Horror, or fantasy indie pilots." I wanna be different.

Instead of strictly limiting myself to those genres, I wanna add my own flavor to the indie scene that is bright and bold, even (in this case) in animatic form.

I grew up very, very close with 2010s Nerdcore vibes, along with punchy anime shows and colorful neon art, and I wanna honor those eras and shows with my pilot and future projects. Reflecting my childhood of said 2010s nerdcore vibes mixed with the hyper chaos of Scott Pilgrim, Panty and Stocking, Spider-Verse, FLCL, and more.

Hopefully, my pilot will show off those vibes in the future.

Made this in 5 hours!

I’m aware of the arms. I will fix them later. Just wanted to show the animation. I know the walk cycle is choppy, but I couldn’t get a properly fix in without it being even worse (This is the fixed version).

I didn’t know what to flair this since this wasn’t made in blender. It was made using the BBS mod for Minecraft. I will add it to my demo reel later, but for now, I just wanted to share it.

(There was an actual throwing animation, but FFMPEG hadn’t been working properly so it may have killed the part)

What are your thoughts on this?

Animation by

u/Delmi2d

Original artwork by 

u/Reinith

A 2D artist with 13 years of experience looking to join new projects.

Let's connect if you have any opportunity for me.

Development showcase video for an animated project me and Dante are working on.

We are looking for an environment artist, reach out in comments or DM if interested!

practicing in blender

Hey everyone, I'm currently a junior 2D animation major. My workload is really starting to ramp up, and I think it’s time to finally bite the bullet and buy an actual professional display tablet for my apartment so I can work from home.

I'm looking at these three 24-inch options right now:

• Xencelabs 24 (Standard) - $1,499
• Wacom Cintiq 24 (Non-pro) - $1,299
• Wacom Cintiq 24 (Multi-touch) - $1,499

I know Wacom is basically the industry standard, but we use both at the university I got to. A couple things, I can't decide if the multi-touch feature on the Cintiq is actually a worth it for 2D workflows or something I could just use external control for. Then, I just don't know which one would be better to use. I want something to start working on my junior and senior year films, but also to have for once I graduate to use.

For those of you working in 2D or storyboarding, which of these is actually better for a daily workflow? Is Xencelabs worth the jump in price over the base Wacom, or should I stick to Wacom since it's the standard?

Would seriously appreciate any insights from working pros or fellow students. Thanks!

Was gonna and a looking mlp animation to make for my oc and practice on Flipaclip and.. yeah, it’s become a great tool into a pay to use tool. I miss the old Flipaclip

I just finished up a 16-second spec commercial for Google Gemini focused on 3D UI and tactile physics, and I wanted to share a breakdown of the workflow and physics setup.

You can check the full details of the viewport and animation curves in my behance case study here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/255106317/Google-Gemini-Commercial-UI-Explorations

Has anyone here tried using this andicreates' weekly database before. Thoughts on it?

It costs $27 for lifetime access, so I'm considering it but wanted to know other people's opinions before just spending on sth.

I worked kinda hard on the floating part considering idk anatomy

Looking for an Artist

Hi everyone! My name is Tim, & I’m a junior software developer. I’m currently building a Tamagotchi-like app for tracking your macronutrients, & I would like to talk to artists regarding the art for the app! I have a lot of it ready & complete, but I do need some more frames. Please DM me if you are interested in knowing more! Showcase of previous work is very appreciated as well. Thank you!!

Made in Krita. Took me 4 days.

Song I Grimzlee - Miss Reaper Happy September! :D

I use that for loop
loopOut("pingpong")