>Basic programshttps://opentoonz.github.io/e/https://www.synfig.org/https://motorpen.comhttps://tupitube.com/https://youtube.com/shorts/b4t-bS6zdUo?si=y1oY-ZGhK9Vzw6ZD>Where should (you) start?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4&t=674s [Embed] [Embed] [Open]https://www.mediafire.com/file/cqz7iwex4mtzidu/ <---- [The Animator's Survival Kit *Video* course]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuNW9vLUxu4 <---- [The Animator's Survival Kit *Video* course]http://www.animatorisland.com/51-great-animation-exercises-to-master/https://bitey.com/pages/fx <---- [2D effects animation course:]>Resources, Reference and Suchhttps://vimeo.com/groups/anirefhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvspTjApofA2Yg3i10gTdQhttp://www.rhinohouse.com/https://www.sakugabooru.com/posthttps://www.catsuka.com/gengal/artworks/https://setteidreams.net/settei/https://setteidreams.net/artbooks/https://setteidreams.net/color-designs/https://www.olm.co.jp/rd/categories/opentools>Sakuga Extended: Add ons to play video on sakugabooru frame-by-framehttps://www.sakugabooru.com/forum/show/964Mozilla Firefox:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sakuga-extended/Chromium based browsers:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sakuga-extended/khmnmdaghmhkcbooicndamlhkcmpklmcBe reasonable with your criticismPlease bump with own worksAvoid excessive repostsPrevious thread : >>7910706
>>7953441nice work OP.
Coloring her in : DDD
>>7953441Working on the next one right now!>>7953531looks great!I created a twitter and newgrounds account but the animation recieved little attention. That's life
>>7953441ew porn sloppa OP
>>7953580Whats your twitter? Cant find you on "sexy beetle"
>>7953719It's the first thing I found looking for their handle: https://x.com/sexy_beetle>>7953580>I created a twitter and newgrounds account but the animation received little attention. That's lifeYou only just started posting with those accounts. It's a game of accumulation, very few can get lots of followers with just an image or two, and usually that only happens because they have a reputation already, like being a well known animation director, or videogame artist, or something.
>>7953580>https://youtube.com/shorts/b4t-bS6zdUo?si=y1oY-ZGhK9Vzw6ZDhow long did that animation in OP take, blank page to finished? and what software?I'm pretty experienced in 3d animation (my preferred 2d animation right now would honestly be blender's grease pencil because I'm soooo fucking comfy in blender) and I'm even more experienced in figure drawing, but I haven't really broken the seal on 2d animation.
Hello my fellow anons. Me just started here. What do you think of this book?
>>7953729>sexy_beetle>>7953580yep, search banned already and most likely shadowbanned as well. With nsfw you have to work fast enough to get a decent or large following before any of that happens, so once you do get any form of traction/following, it would continue to grow from that alone. Try to make fan art of a popular artist oc(That you like) with those animations of yours.
>>7953719@sexy_beetle>>7953729Yeah consistency is key. It's hard to post regularly with animations since it takes so long>>7953744around 25 hours of work give or take. I use Toom Boom Harmony, the best 2D software there is imo.The good thing is that the base principles translate to any medium of animation, you can probably pick up 2D quite fast. I want to learn 3D too, the software is too complicated for my smooth brain though.>>7953752It's good, It's a classic for a reason but I would recommend the animators survival kit from richard williams over it
>>7953774I dont think I'm shadownbanned It was the same in most plataforms. I'm just an unknown artist>>7953764lolI posted a breakdown of the animation I think you guys would like it https://x.com/sexy_beetle/status/2059695401217720614
>>7953752I never really read any books I just watched youtube tutorials and animated what came to mind using my general knowledge of how animation works and the 12 principles
>>7953794People usually discourage it but hashtags on twitter seem to help with reach and growth. I've been drawing stuff for a niche fandom and using hashtags I've been gaining followers and engagement since. Not much but still better than the absolutely nothing at all that I used to get
>>7953798alright I'll try. Any particular ones?
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>>7953794>I dont think I'm shadownbannedyeah you are shadowbanned, you got hit with the search suggestion ban, which means you are shadow banned unfortunately.
>>7953804I don't know it depends on the context of what you animate. If its fanart look up hashtags related to that franchise if its original nsfw then look up some nsfw tags other animators use or tags for the fetish if its specific
>>7953814Maybe. I'm still getting likes. Other websites say I'm not shadowbanned. In any case there is nothing I can do so whatever.It was an inactive account for years so maybe that caused it.
>>7953580Unironically post your art in related gooner art subreddits, your art will get attention, most of the nsfw artists I know post on reddit as well as twitter. Twitter shadowbans new accounts unless you post enough for several weeks. I don't know if getting followers will help that.
>>7953832sure i'll try. I posted in NSFW art subreddits and it got removed in several automatically becouse I dont have enough karma or the account is new and so on. Reddit is weird.
>>7953718Last thread was particularly pornographic.
>>7953977Just keep trying. Your stuff is at a level where you can easily gain a following
Question:Does anyone know of a good web/json animation program, like lottiefiles or Rive, that is preferably not a shitscription?I've been thinking of adding a bunch of animated elements to my website when I get around to making it, and I'd rather not have to pay any of these scumbag companies if I can.
>>7953441Hi 4chan
>>7953441i made this with procreate, edited the video with davinci resolve. https://youtu.be/mzeJHPbJ7_w?si=JcDVYvO2duj5_j12
only the dress is left : DDD
>>7953441Why is there shine on her ass checks? How does the direction of light make that work? Furthermore, the bounce light underneath makes no sense.
>>7954469Well it is a higlight and a reflected light. Highlights dont follow directions and depend on your point of view. Image relatedThe other one (on the bottom) is reflected light from the ground. I imagined a shiny wooden floor that is reflecting the moonlight back to her cheeks.Both are extemely exaggerated and are there to put focus on the butt. It is not a serious light study.>>7954341It is coming along great!>>7954079Hi!
https://stephengregoryteaching.blogspot.com/2011/04/computer-animation-and-drawing.html
>>7954506>Both are extemely exaggerated and are there to put focus on the butt. It is not a serious light study.Yeah, it's objectively wrong. Just own it being wrong instead of pretending it ain't.
Don't engage with the troll SB he's just jealous
>>7954787I though that he was genuinely confused haha.I do tend to sperg out when talking about animation and can come as condescending sometimes. I do agree that the highligh ended up being a little distracting but I need to move on to the next animation.Anyways new wip.
>>7954341She's finally Completed : DDDDwith my work putting me through crunch and this being a rather difficult one it dragged through a solid 2 weeksthe weather being giga hot in my tropical shithole country didnt helpbut now i feel more confidentas an animator : DDD>>7954506yay thanks for the praise fren
>>7954469>>7954664>GIVE ME THE W!!!! ITS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MAKING ANYTHING HALF APPEALING!!Fucking terminal crab over here. Makes a good point then immediately goes full retard.
>>7955212it’s really fantastic! many props to you, looks so nice i def feel it was worth all the effort.
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I think that my shadowban was removed>>7955276Damn that is looking good>>7955212So good! you are missing a shadow at the bottom of the cup
>>7956211this is fucking awesome!! flows really well and the facial expression and shake on them is great. looks very frantic. do you have socialz?
>>7956247thank you anon! mostly just post on instagram @mczee_sketch
10 billion hours in CSP
>>7953441the red toned shading on the dude's skin makes it kinda look like bloody painaldon't like that
>>7954079wtf
>>7956650yeah I think I went overboard with the shadow opacity. I almost never do post production so I'm still learning on that aspect, and color is a weak point too. I still need to find a good production pipeline.The new one has more tamed shadows. pic related>>7956211damn dude that looks good>>7956593Good smear! you could add a little follow through to make it look more fluid
>>7954101its simple i know, but overall what yall think? it was just to test out vocal syncing and editing on my mac, im working on a couple right now,
>>7956692The lipsync looks a little off, it is a very small sample so there is not much to say. Make yourself a mouth chart and use it, you can move the mandible a little too. Since it is a static character you can do that easily.Remember that the mouth shape need to appear 1 or 2 frame before the sound.
>>7956694thanks man, i appreciate this, im working on a couple of videos,
>>7955212Cute Asuka!Where naked version?
>>7956731the silhoutte is pretty skintight niggaget the cracked tvpaint from the archive n get to itall you gotta do is erase the internal lineart n reclor the dress shadow to match skin shadow tonesits like ~30 frames topsthink of it as your first step into animation chumbud
Hi, I'm really new to animation, are there any tips you can give me? Even important terms I should learn
>>7956766Google "Follow-through n anticipation in animation"
>>7956766learn the 12 principles. practice a lot of bouncing balls
>>7953441I like it. Her right arm is supposed to be a point of stability I guess, but it doesn't seem to be holding anything. Maybe the guy's foot?>>7955276Looks cool. The pause in motion of the waves has a dramatic feel
been burnt creatively i need to lock in
>>7956792>>7956806Thanks for the advice
>>7956811Thanks! yeah when I finished the rough animation I noticed the same problem. I could either animate the upper body again, add a stool or short table, I was too lazy to do it again and I found the table distracting so I just said fuck it and left it like that.Just imagine that she is holding something lol
>>7956792>>7956806ntaDo you think that learning animation is a good way to learn figure drawing, for someone that is bad at it and stagnating?
>>7956959you can learn them at the same time THRU animating but depends what you want. generally the more detailed a character is anatomically the longer it takes to animate
well it's mostly done, It just needs a couple more effects and to the next one>>7956959it's good for figure drawing but mostly to capture dynamic movement. You dont NEED to learn animation for figure drawing
>>7956981I forget the pic
>>7954079she’s back, the monstrosity is back
>>7953441the poop on his dick really ruins that animation
>>7957109tableguy, stop
>>7956985This is amazing, and whatever blog you have, I hope the movie brings you lots of followers and shit
>>7956985I have a question, how do you animate gradients? or am i wrong?
>>7957287Thank you! It's being posted later today, I hope that I get more views this time>>7957383Depends, some are flat colors I just add a blur effect (bokeh blur is my favorite) others are gradients, Toon Boom has a great gradient editor tool so it's pretty easy
>>7957592It's probably easier if I show you with a picture
>>7957593I finished that pomni one surprisingly quick
>>7957872*you
>>7957593what method do you go about for adding the gradients anon san?
The new animation broke the 200 likes!>>7957888It's all on the documentation, let me hook you up with links.https://learn.toonboom.com/modules/introduction-to-animation1/topic/adding-a-gradient-colour-swatch1https://learn.toonboom.com/modules/drawing/topic/using-the-edit-gradient-and-texture-toolhttps://learn.toonboom.com/modules/drawing/topic/using-gradients-and-texturesTL:DR add a gradient swatch, fill an area with it, modify it with the edit gradient tool>>7957872It was not quick at all haha, I am going full time but I need to stop a little sadly
my first animation
>>7958405whoa, stellar! never thought you’d post an alt media treat like this. i really love it.
>>7958152huge congrats! totally well earned reception
>>7958405the little thing pressing the hearth bottom made me laugh.
>>7958152hmmm i remember when 200 likes used to make me happy, the more you get the worse it gets just dont animate for likes please i got to a point where 5k likes was not enough for me, think about the money at the very least that gives something back.
>>7958152where's the throatpie finish
>>7958405That is SO good for a first, well done>>7958422Thanks!>>7958425Well yeah but I need followers to make money eventually. What amount of followers should I have to open a patreon?Also. Is patreon the best plataform?>>7958435I know I wanted to do one but I need to churn up more animations T_T
>>7956755>from the archiveWhat are you talking about?
>>7958621open wide anon
>>7958631thanks anon
>>7958631dolphin porn
>>7958468I think 5k is a good number to start a patreon, you have to understand that the amount of followers you get is mostly fake, out of those 5k probably 50 or 100 are real followers that will watch and react to your stuff when it comes out, 5k is probably 5 or 4 comissions if you have the willpower to work like that, patreon is a decent option as long as you know how to deal with the antiporn nonsense (link your videos to google drive, mega, whatever you like using) dont post porn thumbnails because patreon might react to it, kofi or cofee whatever is called i have seen many artist use it, i also know that cash app is an app you might want to use for comissions because the few i worked with used that as their main way of paying, also use paypal but understand that you have to be very sneaky about it, create a fake reason why you receive payments like you are providing a fake internet thing, advisor or some shit so paypal doesnt nuke you account, if you get paid inmediately take it out of there and move it to payoneer or airtm or whatever you like using because paypal will 100% try to stay with your money.....If you do a comission dont work with retards that ask for too much, filter them by rising your prices because they will try to take advantage of you, also try to use your comissions on your main website so you gain followers while also making money, also make very clear what type of content you want to make because people is willing to pay a lot for weird shit that you cant really capitalize on like loli or gross stuff...Also consider a pasive income like locking temporarily content on patreon, or just completely paywalling some exclusive stuff, maybe you can paywall whatever content you will never finish, its shit to you but may be enough for someone that wants that little extra from you, there is also alternatives to patreon, just visit big artist and see what they use.
>>7958682Thank you for all your advice! It is very helpful.I though about posting the 4k versions and the animation files only on patreon. Maybe have a tier to give animation advice? Like always, I'm pretty lost on those aspects, but I'm going to check out other artists patreons to see what they do.I didnt know about patreon being anti NSFW I though that those was a huge amount of the creators on that platform
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Why is animation so hard guys fuckkkkkkI probably shouldn't be complaining since this is like the 5th thing I've ever animated but I don't know I feel like I should be better at this>>7958915Holy fuck Lois I'm cumming
>>7958915Your stuff is nice! I'll try to help you out if I can
>>7958915Hey it seems like things were successful
>>7958682Not him, but I've been stuck at 500 followers for about 6 years. This is my most recent work.How am i suppose to reach 5k followers? my time on this earth is not infinite.
>>7959914>How am i suppose to reach 5k followers? my time on this earth is not infinite.Put the dildo inside her next time
>>7959420It is hard, specially at the beginning. Animation is not intuitive, it took a long time for me to grasp basic concepts like spacing and timing.You should focus on basic excersices at the start, a lot of bouncing balls and stuff.>>7959445Thank you!>>7959898Sheesh right now it's at 5.8k likes and I think I got around 500 follows. I coudn't have done it without all the anons advice from here and the shortstack thread so thank you for the sound advice. It REALLY helped.I have a long way to make it but this is a huge boost. It relied on this big event though so I dont expect my next animation to pull those numbers again.>>7959914From what I learned:1: Follow trends2: Post with key words (in my case Pomni, Digital Circus and animation)3: Post in any relevant place possible4: Animation does WAY better than static images, if you add a small head movement and blink you can get more attention I think. The downside is that it takes a lot of time to learn but you can "cheat" and learn simple cut-out and rigging with Moho for example
>>7959953Oh no no no, I didn't give you any advice, I just retweeted your pomni animation on my largest account to give it some traction. Normally it's a crapshoot based on the individual I retweet, but you getting 5k is pretty good by my book especially for as late at night as I did it lol.
>>7959956That's good too, Thank you!I guess that people left horny after the movie. I dont know at what time or day I'm supposed to post.
>>7959968Try for 9am PST or 9am EST it doesn't matter which Or 12pm PST/EST. You picked a solid time, but TADC is probably gonna be evergreen until the fandom fully implodes.
I'm returning to daily animationsthe popularity of the eva posts is dragging me away from my rootsi'll do the popular posts but not at the expense of my waifus
>>7953441>>7958152What the hell do I have to do to get this damn good?Right now I'm just grinding anatomy and drawing what I wantShould I add TVpaint into it as well?
>>7960376lol
>>7959970Thanks! I'll try to post at that time>>7960001looking good!>>7960361software wont make you good and learning anatomy is great but animation is a diferent skill. You can create impressive animation with stick figures.Learn the 12 principles and do basic excersices. Animation takes a lot of time to understand.>>7960376haha, nice
>>7960561What anatomy book would you recommend alongside learning animation? I don't want to be so autistic about anatomy, a quick one might be good too.
>>7960572I dont know about books but proko and mark bruner anatomy courses are great. For animation I would recommend learning a basic construction that works for you and then concentrate in the line of action, weight and balance.You can animate simple things like a arm pointing or head turn
what's a good zoomie friendly animation learning resource? animator's survival kit is too wordy.....
>>7960714youtube videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4Tezuka school of animation books are as simple as you can get.
>>7960561>looking good!: DDDit'll mostly be walk cycles cuz thats where my monkey brain fixates on after a long day at work
working on this
>>7960748thanks!
I just had an idea for a sex parasite, it attracts males by entering a female host. It migrates to their breasts and does hypnotic pulsing motion similar to https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YM_5wiS4frkSince I don't animate I was thinking maybe like a webtoon with a couple animated pages to showcase the parasite's movement, or maybe like a short 15 second clip. I was wondering what programs would be best for this? I was thinking the method for animating this would be something like a mask on the breast, lowered opacity for the fill, of the breast, then shifting a pattern back and forth in time to the movement of the breasts then loop those frames in some kind of isolated folder via keyframes as the male approaches. Though it might look kinda scuffed now that I picture it. Anyways, I was wondering if just those basic things are available in most animation programs or if there are some that have this more readily accessible? I know CSP doesn't have a loop function.
Anyone know that youtube video that was basically this one guys entire animation for the year. It has a bunch of smiling colored (red/orange/green) dudes and a rotating horse thingy with wings. Idk if they deleted their channel or not but I cant find it anymore. Pretty popular. I think it was either 2023 or 2024 Animation reel. Most of it was fighting and punching and some Naruto nigga teacher.
>>7961157whoa. so great. the camera, the timing, but especially hnngh @ the cloak.
is it normal to take roughly 30 minutes to ink a single frame
>>7961456not really it oughta be like 5 mins max othrwise animation becomes impractical
>>7961136Yeah any animation program that doubles like an art program like krita, photoshop or csp can do what you described
>>7961707csp doesn't have a loop function, on there you have to copy and paste a sequence, or is that just standard in all animation programs? Seems kind archaic that I can't have isolate specific animations and have them function independently of each other on the timeline. I'll have to check photoshop out though. I don't like Krita just because all of its key binds and shortcuts feel backwards to almost every digital software out
algebrailien gijinkas go hard as hell holy shit 1 looks hot!
>>7961716I'm assuming you mean looping a specific section based off of what you described? I don't think any program lets you do that except maybe editing and post processing software. What most usually do is animate the frames you want on a separate layer from the non looping stuff, draw out the first loop and then copy and pasting the entire thing and placing it at the end of the loop until you need the loop to end
>>7961777wow, I guess on the surface it feels like a feature that would exist or be a given. Must be harder to implement that I thought. I think the closest thing I can find right now is blender, I can set an object to have its own loop without having to copy paste the entire thing over and over, but looking at what blender does I'm gonna have to either tinker around with it quite a bit to get the translucent skin and pulsing to look not 3d. SIGH. lmfao. thanks for the input
>>7961786flash has that so does tvpaint you gotta mark the start off frame and end off frame for what section you wanna loop n hit the play button
Another 6 frame cycle
>>7961157this is hilarious
elmosis
>>7961157lol
guess its time to clean this up
>>7962224cuteonly six frames? i don't get it bros...
>>7962899My guess is they skipped the down frame cus of how fravu is walking
>>7962820I feel like her face is changing size and it shouldn't be.Nice job on the ass jiggle though
>>7962224walkin'
>>7962899yeah i realized actual pros often just break the rulesas long as it reads well you can get away with all orts of mischiefplus since im determined to color all my anims its easier to keep the frame count limited>>7962923yeah i never tire of drawing her perky boobies bounceits like zen meditation for my soul watching the loop
>>7963054ye i plan on using the same bg loop n see how many different distinct walk cyclles i can actually make
>>7963058walkin' on the sun
What do you guys think of Preston Blair book? Is it good starting point to learn to draw before jumping into the animation pit or just do the animator survival kit one? I have been only drawing for a month or so.
>>7963199i have not read it before but i have seen a few pictures from iti mostly learned animation when i was a kid drawing stick figures on flip notes and using stick nodes>>7962484hell yeah! beat that quick sand's ass! (are you gonna colour him in soon?)>>7962979to me it looked as if her face was turninghere is my animation, i think i did a better job than in the past keeping the rendering consistent throughout the animationbut i would appreciate tips on how to map this out. I have been looking at gengas to try and get a better idea of how to do so
what do you guys think of tahoma2d? i hear its like a better version of opentoonz it also seems super versatile i am a bit daunted by it to be honest..but there aint nothing else to do but dive in
this one is 10 frames cuz i was having a good day : DDD
>>7963199I've read through Cartoon Animation, but have only quickly gleamed through Animator's Survival Kit, so take my thoughts with a bit of grain of salt;Cartoon Animation is moreso about drawing characters that are suitable for animation, and some of the more basic drawing principles of animation (squash and stretch), while offering some nice examples of animation for you to study from (some lip syncing and and walk cycles).Survival Kit seems to be much more theory based, with a lot of thoughts on what will make a better animation, moreso than it is a drawing book. Things like staging, composition, timing, etc.That's what I get from my quick glances at Survival Kit.Since you're new to drawing, Cartoon Animation is the way to go (in my opinion), as it still teaches a good amount of animation, whilst focusing more on drawing, and if you're still hungry for a deeper dive into animation concepts, then go into Survival Kit.
Between Open Toonz and Synfig which one do you guys recommend? I don't even know what's the difference between them in the first place.And I know they're free and that i can easily try both but I want to save myself the hassle of that.
>>7963808From my understanding, synfig is primarily for tweening/puppet based animation, rather than Frame by Frame, while Open Toonz is Primarily Frame by Frame focused, and has little tools for tweened animation.So go for the program that more greatly supports the type of animation you want to try.Though maybe they've changed since I've last looked at them.
>>7963807Thanks for the advice, anon. I'll go through the whole CA book!
>>7963813
>>7963890neither if you're too stupid to make a decision based on that info
>>7963771Very cute anon, nice walk cycle
>>7961157first shot hits so fuckin hard>draw key pose first frame>push pose further for final frame>tween into itsimple but genius, using this
>>7964211: DDD
How does this look so far?https://files.catbox.moe/0pcxxs.gif
>>7965377nice>>7965384>https://files.catbox.moe/0pcxxs.gifnose isn't in-sync with the eyes/face motion
Anyone else ITT use krita? Whenever I fuck with the timeline in any way it expands the size of all the keyframes to as big as they'll go and I'll have to manually reset it each time. it's very annoying.
>>7963309prob just gonna leave it like this wasnt a part of anything bigger
>>7965578That shit had me puzzled for a while. The reason is when you click and drag the scroll bar up and down it resizes the keyframes.Fucking mind-boggling UI choice.
I got a job as a character designer, but I don't know shit about character design...
>>7965715i gotchu bro i got lots of cool ideasheres my oc mickey the mouse, hes all yours my friend :)
>>7965715How? What did you apply to? good job btw
wish more people gave MotorPen some lovethe gallery's pretty barren
irresponsibly swinging hips
>>7966076nooo! haha, oh man. i love poor glasses apple. >also brain guy anim was the bomb.>>7966197she’s so pretty..you give her such a beautiful flow.
How do I best maintain line weight consistency between frames? Is it just one of those things you get better at with time?
>>7965715>>79657662nding this question
https://youtu.be/21vcjnyrkcU?si=I5sCEJVsKZZ4KZWH
>>7966393She reminds me of the Turn A guy
couple weeks old but thread needs sum action
>>7966228>she’s so prettyi'll shade her hips too don't u worry
>>7966951absolutely mesmerizing.I can picture this edited together with some dope ass music
>>7965530>nose isn't in-sync with the eyes/face motionThanks, I fixed it!https://files.catbox.moe/csi6rp.gif
currently trying to make an animation for a fan character idea I have for Deadlock. The storyboard is about 40% done now and I have no idea what I'm doing
>>7966952it came out really nice : DDD
>>7967778funnily enough crankinmg down the color pallette count n hiding the lineart produced a really super neat render
>>7967780the dither option really makes some aesthetic rendersI oughtta experiment with it more often
>>7967778ooh>>7967780>>7967787whoa..hot damn. O_O>so nice
>>7967959so cutewhy do i like all of your characters so much[tasty speed lines, too]
>>7965377>>7967959neato. i like your style
>>7967959Reminds me of the Redbull commercials
>>7953441MOGGED. I FUCKING KNEEL
>>7958951Not him, but it was done.>>>/aco/9216655>>7958915You left the thread over on /aco/, I wrote you in the old shortstack thread towards the end, did you ever see it?
>>7967772is it read top to bottom or left to right?
>>7968227top left to bottom right, dialogue and actions only happen at the top of the panels. I know it looks really busy and confusing, sorry about that
Bump
>>7953441There are these very weird little dark green specs I cannot understand wtf they are or what they represent. Almost looks like a defect.
how do I get good enough at animation to stop being rejected from things? I feel like I'm perfectly capable but does my reel not reflect that or do I just think I'm better than I am??
>>7965820>>7968574
This might be a long shot but does anyone know what the average price is for voice acting?
>>7968969go on fiverr, and other job board sites, and look at their rates.
>>7968969download a localized voice model and train your own voice actor
>>7967787superb. This one's going into my 'best of /ic/' folder
>>7967787Music video worthy.
>>7953441Source of this artist in the OP?
>>7968684pyw not in a snarky way i just like seeing the level that people start to apply.
>>7953729Thanks the art is hhoott
>>7958152You got almost 10k likes! you're awesome
>>7953752I learned the basics of animation from books and video tutorials and videos are way better than books because animation is supposed to move unlike still drawing.
lots of animated boobs and butts this threadhttps://youtu.be/4uPMG7S2f3g?si=TRrG2FczR5LrN198
I'm back!>>7965377cool!>>7967778This looks sooo nice, good job!!>>7967959my guy is zooming>>7968086I just came back I'm catching up>>7968638maybe the gif dithering from toom boom? dunno
>>7968684I think that I'm decent and I get rejected too. It's not so much how good you are but how well known you are sometimes. Deliver on time, dont complain, thank and compliment people. Just be a pleasant person to work around and word will spread.>>7969241Oi, thats me. @sexy_beetle on twitter>>7969879Thank you!! I wish that I capitalized on the attention but I had to attend some family business for almost 2 weeks>>7970225Why learn animation otherwise?
>>7970766good job on your post that blew up recently. Animation is very hard, so be fast and consistent then you will shoot even higher. Don't want the momentum to go to waste, especially, since it's needed the most for nsfw account because of the amount of limits/shadow bans those accounts face on twatter.
what even is this image though, it wont leave, it makes me cringe every time i log onto this board
>log ontowhere does he think he is?
>>7970784Animation is very, but being fast and consistent will shoot* Look at these accounts as examples for consistent post where you can't post animations. @rakupote @yazawaowl and utilize gifs as well.
>>7970788Just ignore the crab
>>7970784>>7970790fast and consistent is hard to accomplish with animation haha. I was in a groove before I had to travel now I have to get used to it again. I'm not happy with my current animation but I felt the same with the Pomni one and now its over 9k lol.
>>7970903>I'm not happy with my current animation but I felt the same with the Pomni one and now its over 9k lolsomething something 2 cake meme. Normies are like that, nothing wrong with feeling that way about your work, that's how us artist operate. It's always the work that we least expect or don't feel good about that tends to blow up.
>>7970903Dude, how did you learn to draw and animate?I been watching a few Youtube tutorials and I still suck at both, but at least I feel like I`m learning drawing but animation is too abstract to me.
>>7970909It's not like that. There are a lot of better animators than me but I dont mind. My problem is that I never finished personal animations becouse I wasnt 100% satisfied with them. I'm learning to sticking to it, releasing and moving on. The pomni one I realized lated that I missed a shadow on her hair and the eyebrows lol.>>7970932I studied a short animation career and the rest I learned while working as a freelance or on my own. I would recommend getting aron blaize or toniko pantoja courses for beginners.Dont be discouraged, the learning curve is REALLY hard until your brain finally gets some of the basic principles then it gets a lot easier
forgot how much i fucking hate animating hair
booomp
>>7971140>the learning curve is REALLY hard until your brain finally gets some of the basic principles then it gets a lot easierThis part jumps out to me because I already know the very basics of animation thanks to a really old animation course on Youtube, that short course is almost 2 decades old, and a bunch of animation concepts finally clicked in my mind but I can`t recall anything past the basics (12 principles)Thanks anyway, you`re an awesome animator.
im just realizing this is the 2nd time im animating a short bitch turn around in surprise. im a fucking hack
WIP
not really an animation but i thought id share anyway
my schedule next month until august>art college classes mondays, wednesday's fridays>online animation class friday at a more later time>meetings for a short film production tuesday and thursdaydo you guys think this is too much. I'm gonna try and manage it all, but I've basically come to terms that I won't be able to work on any personal project or slack off
>>7973237i will pray for your success anonbest of luck : DDDalso pyw so we can see what your'e workin with
>>7953441>>7953580Nice, thanks for the coom kind anon, I also appreciate the breakdown you posted over at your twitter https://x.com/sexy_beetle.How many frames is this anyway? 10? 12?>>7957109No that makes it even hotter
ball
>>7971708WOWE WOWE WOWE WOWE WOWE WOWE WOWE WOWE WOWE WOWEWOWE WOWE WOWE WOWE WOWE
Found Melodia on ArtFight, pretty.
>>7973566more ball
>>7974430i raise you with a ball of my own
>>7974624very nicehave it settle in frame thoseeing it slow down and come to rest is the more skillful part of the excercise me thinksalso is that grease pencil?
Thread is shifting into ball-mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tt15hSiKxM
>>7974968Is that based on something or did you create it from scratch? I vaguely remember you saying you used anime scenes as references for your own animations, though I could be remembering wrong...
>>7953441Animation is fun, but I dislike drawing so here`s a pixel art.
>>7975597Since you guys like balls, here`s a pixel ball.
>>7975597>>7975601More balls
>>7975597>>7975601>>79756144th pixel animation
>>7975597>>7975601>>7975614>>79756185th and last pixel animation, at least today.
once again attempting to learn spine2dtrying to figure out how the fuck curves and shit work is a massive headache coming from the world of regular frame by frame animation. im fighting every urge to animate shit by hand and then try to replicate it in spine like a massive autist
>>7969891Navel too low.Not a fan of the slight muffin top gut. She's not fat in the series.Her nipples being so high in the beginning implies that's how they were positioned while wearing the bikini top, which wouldn't be realistic of comfy.Good taste in character and cute everywhere else, tho.
Does anyone know how to set up onion skin in CSP for animated loops?I f.e. at frame 1 (12a) I want to see onion skin of my last frame, frame 21 (8a) and vice versaI could copypaste the last frame to frame 0 and the first frame to frame 24 to simulate a loop but I'd have to edit those aswell everytime I work on my last or first frame
>>7970763>maybe the gif dithering from toom boom? dunnoHow the fuck do you not notice that?In an otherwise fantastic animation, those weird glitches stood out to me right away..
>>7975806Feels very minus8, and I mean that in a good way.
>>7975806Interesting. Always wondered about Spine2D--that one typically gets used in games right?
working on this rnjust gotta redraw the balancing part bc i was being lazy then i can clean it up
>>7974968thanks and that makes sense, capture the motion until the motion is finishedAnd yeah this is blender, I don't know if I like it yet I just started and I'm fighting the program a LOT.starting a headturn now this took an hour because drawing in it feels so obtuse
>>7976055also im noticing everyone using gifs should I not upload mp4s?
>>7976057.mp4s are a bit of a more recent thing on here: it used to be only .gif or .webm iirc. Guarantee it's just out of habit than .mp4 being bad to use here.
figuring out how best to implement hand drawn elements with tweened motions is also incredibly awkward>>7976024yeah its primarily an animation software for games, thats my end goal to use it for the games i want to make >>7975935thankes
>>7971140>My problem is that I never finished personal animations becouse I wasnt 100% satisfied with them.You may not be satisfied, but then again, every artist is their own worst critic. Others will likely fawn over it.>realized lated that I missed a shadow on her hair and the eyebrows lol.Yeah it sucks to eyeball a piece a million times before hitting upload and then realize 'FUCK this is wrong that is wrong'. Now its a hit and spread everywhere and now you cant change it. But I mean, people arent staring at her eyebrows, so they wont notice those flaws.
>>7975926*or comfy
what's the best programs for animating on ipad?Been using Procreate for a long time but the base version has some serious wonky limitations for animation (only one timeline, no audio imports, layers are frames), and likewise the animation version (dreams) felt like a massive fucking mess when I tried it.The best I've tried so far is Toonsquid, but I'm struggling to make anything look good with its available brushes and pencil settings.
>>7976259procreate dreams has the best brush engine but is still missing a few features (more of an inconvenience that a dealbreaker like it was before)toonsquid is surprisingly fully featured but i dislike the brushesCSP has a god awful ui but lots of pros use it. There's a new 'minimal UI' that might make it less cumbersome I haven't tried.procreate dreams is what I use >>7975848 . Praying they add the ability to draw a straight line in some future update.
>>7976266Alright, thanks my dude. Yeah I'm overall really fond of Toonsquid but the brushes are fucking rough to work with, I hope the dude making it can improve that a bit.>https://files.catbox.moe/8zn0yr.mp4I might give Procreate Dreams another try soon then. Back when I tried it the first time I was hard filtered by the lack of a "select and move selection" tool which I hear they have added since then. CSP having a new minimal UI does sound interesting, but iirc it also had a pretty steep monthly cost and I'm poor as shit at the moment.
>>7975597If you don't like drawing I wouldn't be easier to do puppet stuff or 3D? Pixel art is a weird blend of drawing, sculpting, and painting
any tips to improve this? its a wip but i wanna know if the head bob is decent.
Is $80 for max 10 frames a fair price? I wanna open animation commissions some day
>>7976656How many hours does it take to animate those ten frames, times by whatevers the average hourly rate in your country.Standard rate is about 20-30 USD per second of fully animated footage, but if you're doing porn loops you can probably bump that up.
>>7977487>Standard rate is about 20-30 USD per second of fully animated footage, but if you're doing porn loops you can probably bump that up.theres no way its that low. At least 3 well-drawn keys for a second and some tweens will take anyone more than an hour. And that would just be for the rough pass.
>>7976055use a software more 2d friendlywhile grease pencil is nice for vfx stuff its not great for pure 2d animation>>7975597>>7975601>>7975614>>7975618>>7975626the kinda drip you'd make using temple OSkino>>7975806>>7976061im somewhat aroused
>>7973818I love Twisty..
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im having trouble with this balancing section idk if it needs more frames or needs to be retimed id like some advice if anyone's got any
>>7978764he starts off squatting and maintains the same height after catching the bat on his noseadd a slight up and down squash/stretch on the knees would help add weight
>>7977487I don't know what homeless shelter you're animating for but every serious rate I've seen *starts* at literally quadruple that
>>7979070thank you so much but also fuck you because now i gotta redo this AGAIN
>>7979070>>7979607looking much better now i can finally clean it up
>>7979773nice : DDD
>>7978345continued
>>7975109i forgot to reply but this is really well donejust the final curve into the ground isnt rounded out enough
It's been a while since I animated something frame by frame. Still incomplete though
bad run cycle
>>7980784I think it's because the arms are so out, but then the legs/feet aren't really counter balancing them (or vice versa) I think you could actually make the feet cross over each other and it would look less wonky. I should probably try and do something like it myself soon
Does anyone know what Hard-Degenerate uses to animate?
>>7980708I think I need a smudge in the arms
>>7981441titties need way more frames of flopping, whole thing is way too fast and the tits have no weight
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>>7981647no
>>7981390yeah i was rushing it and got lazy thinking mirroring the frames would suffice
>>7981444How about this?
>>7982224bro they teleport down like they're 6 tons or something, they need to flop with weight but not too much weight. after they escape the confines of the shirt there should be a fall period where they're making their way down followed by a meaty impact against the belly, ideally complimented with bounce and recoil. go check out some titty drop videos and try to match their timing
slowly but surely im learning this crazy program. still a big learning curve wrapping my head around animation curves and the like but its making a bit more sense now
>>7982266Shit dude, this is really cool to see. Makes me want to take a stab at this program, but I can only imagine how mind numbing it must be to learn stuff again on a new program...
>>7982266NeatI want to make spline animations, but I don't use paid software. I have tried using blender for such things, but it's finnicky, though with Blender it should be possible through some technique...Like here's an old example of mine from 2 years back. Haven't tried recently.
>>7982301Oh here's a newer example, forgot lol.The problem is like rigging the GreasePencil because Weight Painting doesn't carry over between frames. You either weight each frame manually or use bone envelopes.Programs specifically for splines should be easier, ah...
First attempt at something tech related
>>7982395**sakuga related
>>7982301>I have tried using blender for such things, but it's finnicky, though with Blender it should be possible through some technique...I believe they've somewhat recently added tools with a focus on 2d puppet animation. Though maybe 'recently' was long enough ago that you were trying it at that time, haha.>I want to make spline animations, but I don't use paid software.This said, if you're looking for another free tool, Rive has a free tier for just animation (but exporting the animation as JSON animation is a paid option).There's also Dragonbones, but I haven't seen any cool work that makes me think it can be used for anything professional, unlike Rive which has tonnes of cool animation examples all over their site.There should be a rule of thumb for any opensource art program to make sure you convince one good artist to give it a go and make some cool stuff with it to display its capabilities. Otherwise everyone will avoid it thinking it's an amateur hour program.
>>7982266How easy would you say it is for someone to learn this program who comes from a Flash/Animate background? I'm used to working with symbols, so I imagine there's a lot more bone rigging at play here compared to what I used to do.
>>7982288its really exhausing and basically requires approaching animation from a completely different perspective. instead of the hard part being nailing timing and consistency between frames its making sure all the different images dont clip and how to most optimally divide images for more tricky layering like the hair. like i said its getting less tiresome but its still annoying and disruptive>>7982301>>7982303i've definitely given blender a more than fair try, grease pencil is just too fucking janky and inconsistent for me. pretty cool work though, definitely better than anything i had the patience to make with blender>>7982660unfortunately my flash experience ends all the way back in like 2018 and even then i was doing frame by frame there too, so i'm not sure. best way i can describe it is like 3d animation with the topology and bone rigging but with 2d assets, kind of what grease pencil probably would be if it wasnt a giant piece of shit
>>7982919See, that's the interesting part for me, considering I've already had to be a problem solver when it comes to rigging things in a way that doesn't make things break. The hair motions look really fun.Vidrel, but it all looks super complicated for the stuff I want to go for (been a while since I posted in here, but I do motion tweening NSFW). There's something quite mesmerizing about this program, but at the same time, I have no idea if my brain is willing to go through the learning process of it.
boomp
Did the anon that made this ever finish it?
Repost from the ArtFight thread but there’s a tutorial on windhttps://youtu.be/4z7-c_T5hNc?si=vsLpTOhMBzI-UUDh
thoughts on this ball animation
All I got>>7983622dubs confirm, it;s a very nice animation
We've reached Bump LimitSTART VOTING LADSnext thread's OP will be chosen by vote
>>7983559I vote for this to be the thumbnail
>>7983401i votr for this
>>7955212>>7964850>>7962224>>7982919>>7967787>>7983220I vote for these
>>7953813>>7965377>>7981504I wote for da fisch, da brain, an lolipop buny
Don't tacitly involve me in your """demo͞ncratic poo͞pularity contests"""Annoying hierarch͠eadaches...Is it really so difficult to take each anon's most representative piece of (sh)ART and put it all into one big gif???(-: You know, like one big happy family ;-)I'm interested in obtaining feedback, in "cultivating ethos emergently"(tm)Not in being the bitch of a bunch of [*] anons with pathetic tastes.------------------------*: Which of the following words best completes the previous sentence?a: niceb: smellyc: cuted: mean
>>7984822>Is it really so difficult to take each anon's most representative piece of (sh)ART and put it all into one big gif???i didn't think of that wtf that's actually a genius ideainstead of a poopularity contest the voting is more of a qualifier for which gifs get to be part of the collagesay let's land at ~3 votes to get in no?that way we get to have everyone in the glow-upwill prolly kill thumbnail readability on the catalog page thoidk what do you other lads think?
Just popping in here to tell you guys I cummed to the OP pic like 5 times this past week
>>7984822oh my gooooooood shut up no one cares go awayread one sentence and knew it was the --->!!!_-_schizo lol
>>7983885I vote for these>>7961157>>7964850
>>7979773obligatory me vote>>7967959>>7974430>>7969891these ones are good thumbnails i think
Someone made a new thread..
me votes>>7955212>>7967959>>7985109what a fag. prob that kid with the wind fetish using his own work as the OP pic
>We're WHORES without a cultivated-""diegetic""-ETHOS, but at least we're the majority. And we hold DEMOCRATIC orgies.Hahaahahahah>>7984834Do whatever the fuck """you""" want. It's """your""" thread, after all. This place is nothing but a circlejerk where everyone can't stop sucking japan's dick and always prioritizing the same goddamn 2 second gifs like a bunch of fucking npcs.
>>7985109its an illegitimate bastard thread with the least imposing OP gif ever ngl ngl>>7985403i still love seeing you post here regardless : DDD
>>7985403why don't you post ur doodles here anymore mani liked seeing them
Voting hard or Hardly voting?hehe
smol bump
>>7967959>>7956985>>7956593voting
something wicked this way comes
>>7967787vote 4 booty
Ill be compiling all anims that got votes into a single collage Once this archives 'll Bake the next one within 24 hours See you lads in the next one : DDD
>>7987601I WALK THE EARTH
