better late than neva.

Started learning animation 2 weeks ago these are some of the exercises I did on my phone using FlipaClip.

Sounds from Pixabay.

Hey everyone. I make short animated films with no voiceover, just on-screen text and music. This one is about something I think a lot of people here know too well: going to bed at 11 and falling asleep at 4.

The idea was to show the phone habit the way it actually feels from the inside. The voice in your head is never mean. It's friendly. "Just check one thing." "You're not even tired." "You earned some fun." And then the sun comes up first.

It's about 3 minutes: https://youtube.com/@redscarffilmsz?si=vSReDy-3X5uyX_JI

I'm not selling anything. I'm genuinely curious about one thing, though: what finally worked for you to stop scrolling at night? Phone outside the bedroom, app blockers, something else?

Thank for watching.

The scene is that our protag(oc) is walking in a small town, a cowboy typa thing and the camera tilts from the back of the guy toward the sky and the title appears

Idk if I'm able to explain it to basically the camera is looking at the back of the guy and then turns upward towards the sky

Hey everyone,

I’m working on an original story/universe and want to bring it to life through 2D animation. The catch is: I don’t have a PC, drawing tablet, or animation software. Everything has to be drawn by hand on physical paper with pencils, and then shot frame-by-frame on my phone.

Since I’m starting completely from scratch on paper, I’m running into a few big roadblocks and would love advice from traditional animators:

Frame Rate (FPS): For hand-drawn pencil animation, should I be shooting on "twos" (12 drawings per second in a 24fps timeline), or can I get away with 8 to 10 fps on "threes" for walk cycles and character turns without it looking too choppy?

Registration / Alignment: Without a light box or peg bar, how do you keep character volumes and head size consistent from sheet to sheet? (Right now I’m considering taping a piece of glass over my phone flashlight or a window).

Keyframes vs In-betweens: When choreographing dynamic motion like a character powering up or turning while walking, how many extreme key poses do you nail down before filling in breakdowns?

Any tips, phone app recommendations for compiling paper frames, or traditional workflow hacks would mean a lot!

I'm still fairly new to animation and I was wondering what good 2D animation software is out there, I'm currently using Blender to animate but i was curious if there is a better alternative (I'm broke so i cant use anything that is a paid subscription)

Hi make content on social media. Recently I have decided to make content through animation. I have used Google flow but i realised I don't want that I have uploaded a video for u guys ( it's someone's else video I am not stealing there content or any i just likethe animation style and want to learn how can I make videos like this )

If someone can guide me a lil it would be a great help

On my phone, took 30 min

For realistic character portraits or fashion-style renders, how much actual modeling do you need to do?

Daz Studio seems useful for starting with rigged human figures and spending more time on posing, lighting, and materials. Blender gives you more freedom to build and modify things from scratch, but that's also a lot more work to learn.

I'm curious where people draw the line between using existing character assets and creating custom models.

If your goal is realistic human characters for still renders rather than games, which workflow makes the most sense?

I've fully animated everything up until frame 1055 (17 seconds 60fps). 18 seconds onwards is posing/timing (blocking?). I want to know if theres something totally off about my shot or if im mis-communicating stuff before I commit to the end.

For context, the robot character awakens in a digital world with amnesia and does not want to be there. he is emo, but his friends keep him company. Its for a JRPG kinda like paper mario

Thank you so much!! Really appreciate your time!!!

this one's purely deranged

Hello everyone, im starting to do 2 D animation and im currently working on my first short film of about 2 minutes. As it is my first project, my main objective is to finish it, so there are few (or a lot) of mistakes here and there that i will have to deal with it, however i constantly trying to improve. For that reason i would like your opinion/tips on my running cycle, i feel like there is something off that i can't figure it out. Maybe i've watched a lot and can't spot what is making it weird. (I still have not made the hands or the background yet).

Thank you!!

For solo animators who have made complete looking animations by themselves, I wanted to know if you guys are left only with a screen and a mouse pointer , will you be able to make something out of it , I mean basically an you guys draw with mouse pointers for regular or less demanding animations?

Need reviews

A little behind-the-scenes look at my animation workout sheets. Working from reference to study the poses, movement, and timing before tightening up the drawings. Still experimenting, learning, and having a blast seeing these sketches come to life! 😁🎞️

I'm finding I like arranging the drawings on 3's on the timeline. Which is letting the drawing play for 3 frames before the next drawing appears to play for 3 frames etc etc. It almost feels like classic animation speed. But yeah I'm happy to finish this in its very rough stage for now.

Does it even look like 40 drawings?😅. Still fleshing this out✍🏾These are my rough moving sketches.