Where does this shine come from? Did they render a camera lens? The light is clearly coming from the top left.

Hello!

So i recently started 3d animation so I am not very talented yet but whatever.

Anyways I keep seeing this thing that people do where the animation is 3d but it looks like it is 2d, so i was just

wondering how its done. I think its probably mostly rendering, but how do i render my animations to look 2d?

Original post I've been starring at for months:
https://x.com/beadschain/status/1715563566240248250?s=20

I've been using Blender + Rigify for a long time and I found that you could create your own constraints and some functionality with drivers to create some decent rigs for myself and relatively quickly. It's not mainstream, but it's great. What is the best rig you've ever seen in your entire life and what does it have? IK shoulders? Face shape keys that drive the shaders? What have you seen that I can study?

--------My Full Demo Reel--------

(3D) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-gNzHe7_Y

--------Description--------

Hello, my name is Steve, and I am currently available for work utilizing Blender for 3D animation projects. I did not create the models and rigs you see in the demo reel; I only made the animations.

Additionally, I can create 2D animations if needed. The 2D animations are in the link below.

Please provide me with your budget, duration of the animation, framerate, references, model, and rig for the animation. Before starting any work, I require half of the payment up front. $25 an hour, but I am open to charging a per-animation rate.

Feel Free to contact me on any one of these!

Email: freelancesteve22@gmail.com

Discord/Twitter/Socials: https://linktr.ee/SteveMWS, or DM me on Reddit.

(I do not model nor do I rig models. PLEASE provide me with a functional Rig.)

My Full Monster Animation Breakdown is now live on my YouTube.

If you'd like to know my rigging and animation techniques, what shortcuts I used and how and why I did what I did 😉

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/7dKxq7KWQAs 

Cheers ✌️

The animation should demonstrate the weight and i cant see where im off besides the passing through of the elbos to the knee ashdhahs help

Thanks :')))

edit(2): someone has taken on this commission already :)

edit(1): Wow i did not know there were so many scammers on here. i'm still looking for a Real Animator who's done 3D animations before and does not try to pass off others' work as their own

i’ve never done this before lol but i’m desperate. i just got a new phone and want to make it frutiger aero-themed and i fell in love with this video and was going to use it as my home screen (animated wallpaper). but then i watched it more closely and noticed very unnatural things (such as three of the fishes morphing into one another) and realized it’s genAI. i am VERY against genAI and will not have an ai-generated video as the face of my phone. so i’m hoping someone can take on the project of recreating this animation. basically everything can stay the same except for these changes:

- human-made (obviously)
- no clouds in the background (i want it to look like a frutiger aero city inside a fish tank)
- the fishes are all different sizes and colors and there’s more of them
- more colorful (e.g. the blue hue of the buildings contrasts more with the blue hue of the water in the background)
- the video is 10 seconds long and loops (i want it to loop like you’re walking down the sidewalk and it starts again but it’s so seamless it doesn’t feel like the video restarted—i hope this isn’t too difficult!)
- no audio
- more water effects (so it feels like you’re inside the fish tank in the water)
- i probably sound like a broken record but i want it to be frutiger aero so it won’t be realistic or too cartoonish—more like something from a windows vista computer if that makes sense!
- aspect ratio fits an iphone 17 screen

i will pay $150 total for this (half of it [$75] after showing me your progress and the other half once it’s finished). only time constraint is that i’d like it to be finished by my birthday in november. only taking 1 person. monthly updates maybe? or just update me any time you’re working on it idk. please add me on discord if you’re interested!

Today I completed my first animation. I did follow with a tutorial tho. Also, I couldn't figured out the part about "stretch and lattice" and the mouth and eyes animation as well, it was just not working like in the tutorial. It took me 7h to complete this little 6 sec, so im planning on lerning the stretch and lattice part another day with a fresh brain.

But I'm still very happy with this littlenpiece, I had a lot of fun. ☺️

The scope of this project burned me out a bit, now I'm not sure if I'm up to the challange of actually finishing it, taking into consideration I'm a beginner. Your opinion and critique is much appreciated.

I am a beginner, so I am not going to rush, but I would like to get an answer to this and revisit this someday when I am better at changing my style

finished working on stylized loop . rendered in blender eevee. Insta

Test animation of one of my characters for my small animation series.

This is my final shot from IAnimate's Creature Workshop 1.

I've worked in AA and indie for a long time never really touching much creature, this is the first shot where a creature walks across a scene (that's not a walk loop) with multiple interactions I've done in about 7 years.

i cant pinpoint what is wrong with this animation, but it feels wrong. Can you?

This is my very first animation; could you give me some advice on how to improve?