Anyone else an animator?

In 2018 I attempted "animating" for the first time, I can hardly call it animating because it was more like a bunch of poorly drawn pictures playing after eachother. I started off with flipaclip, but not on my phone- oh no no sir. I downloaded bluestack (an app that allows you to download mobile games on a computer) and did everything with a mouse. I made a few of these "animations" and uploaded them to youtube, but people were really harsh which discouraged me and I gave up. And just before I receaved these comments I have started an actual project with animation in it! But I never uploaded it. All of these videos are now lost-

Recenly I just felt like I should give it a another try and so I did! I did those 2 animations who were actually my very first 2 animations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFhZdWmukzQ Mind you, they were drawn with a mouse, everything I draw is drawn with a mouse. It was all going smooth and I though I should join a map call, but I chew more then I could bite and made this disgusting thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kw6Z4aWJE . It really discouraged me because nothign turned out how I wanted it to and now I just don't feel like trying again because I don't feel confident enough to try again- I mean look at it- it's embarrasing xD

Now I'm considering if I should try again with somthing simple./ as a side question, what program would you reccoment for begginers, firealpaca just messes up the colors when exporting as a gif- and I'm too lazy to export each layer

MONOUwU they weren't bad at all! I think you have a real natural talent for animating if these were your first things, done with a mouse! The little line test you did was good especially. I myself use toonboom, and I somewhat recommend it - it's a bit expensive for what it is. Opentoonz I haven't tried, but it's free, and it's the same software ghibli uses so... it's gotta be somewhat good, right? If I had a suggestion it would be to get the Animator's Survival Kit - it has all you need to know about the 12 principles of animation which is all you really need to get started.

I am! I'm specifically 2d cut/rigged animation. though if you give me a 3d model I can animate just as well, I just can't light it in any way that looks competent lmao.

I stopped during 2020 cause of personal issues, but I'm getting back into the swing of things, my older animations are still on my website: https://www.hotsnailstudios.com/animations . They're a little yikes now, considering most were from 2018-2019, but for just starting out at the time, I like them. They were certainly enough for me to graduate.

Xen wow they look great! I love the bug saying 'wellllll'. Yeah, it's interesting how similar 3D and 2D cutout animation is, which is why I suck at both lol.

Zuluanimations They look great also! I love the canine falling one.

ThornPuck Thank you! I'll make sure to try again soon :)

I used to dabble in it, and now I’m getting back into it for a story I’m writing! I want to tell the plot points through animated music videos. I’m very much a musically inspired person, so when I started finding songs that went well with my plot and characters, I was extremely excited! I’m working on an animatic for Panic Room by AU/RA with my character Radar! I haven’t matched it to the music yet. I animate in Procreate, but would you happen to know somewhere I could put the music over it? Tysm!

Example here¥¥¥

Panic Room Animation

ThornPuck I fixed the link

acid_macaw looks like your example didn't work?

And as far as putting audio to things I know toonboom works, but I've also used premiere pro in the past but both of those are kinda expensive. :(

I actually had gotten back to animating recently, I had gotten better. The most animations I had done are when it was like one year after I have started drawing, they are not that good but I think for that level I was they were fine like here.Back then for animations I was using Medibang and movie maker now I use Krita cause I brought a much better pc that can handle animating on krita ,I do the animation frame by frame not like I used some animations were frame by frame but some weren't before I understood how animating works. I also had done some simple icons for my characters (more recent animations nothing special something simple)I dont have much examples to show since now I started animating and still working on an animation but here the icons anyway

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Psycho-freakG cool icons hey! Icons are always fun. Maybe I should do some. :V

I'MMMM BACK after 5 months, finally got my first tablet and did that qwq

It was pretty fun and much faster then a mouse!

Kind of, yes. I may not do big animation videos but I do animate (quite similar to Punksoda) . I´m into frame-by-frame animation but occasionally also do tweeting. I like both a lot but have done more frame by frame.