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Studio Ghibli’s animation software will be made available via open source this month.

That’s right…💯% free.

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This is a BIG DEAL, folks.

Animation software is, by and large, very expensive and out of the range of most people seeking to get into animation. As of March 26th, this software will become open source and available to all prospective animators!

Spread the word!

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Here’s a direct link to the Toonz website.

#animation #ghibli animation

Hy! Uhm, I would like to ask, what animation app do you use? If you are using a paid one, would you please recommend me a good free animation app. Please and Thank you

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To be very clear: I'm just a person who does silly little animations in my free time. I am not a professional, I just read a lot about animation and like coming across animation tutorials on tumblr and sharing them in a blog. That said...

What I highly recommend that is relatively inexpensive next to "industry standard" programs is Clip Studio Paint Ex. CSP EX is slightly more expensive than clip studio paint Pro. It's roughly a flat $100-$200 depending if it's on sale. If you already have CSP Pro, you only have to pay the difference for CSP Ex. If you can't afford CSP Ex right now, I recommend getting the slightly cheaper CSP because you can animate up to about 5 seconds I believe, which allows you to get your feet wet without financially committing too much.

The nice thing about CSP EX is it allows for whatever length of animation you want and the ability to add .MP3s. Obviously it's not going to have the same firepower as something like Toon Boom, but it's notably less expensive, and you're not paying a subscription for it (like Toon Boom or literally any legally obtained Adobe product).

If you really, REALLY need something free and don't want to pirate software: Gimp and Firealpaca are free and have the ability to animate, but I haven't used Gimp, and it's been years since I've used Firealpaca, so I'm not able to personally speak to how user-friendly they are.

AND-- If you want to do 3D or 2D/3D animation combined: Blender is free and has been successfully used by many, many artists! I am not much of a 3D animator but always point to Blender since it’s free and there are lots of tutorials for it.

Hope that helps!

#animation question #animation #Animation tool

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Added sound effects to this AMAZING animation by https://www.instagram.com/xabier.u/ with their permission… and I had a lot of fun doing it!

josephine-meis

Here is how we decided to shade our characters’ faces! The UVs will be hand-painted with watercolors and pencils.

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Have you always wanted to be Pixar animator? Now that process is a tiny bit easier. The animation studio recently made a number of courses available on the Khan Academy website to help you start yo…

Calling all storytellers! This is real!!!

Free Video course by the creators from Pixar.

“Have you always wanted to be Pixar animator? Now that process is a tiny bit easier. The animation studio recently made a number of courses available on the Khan Academy website to help you start your journey - and they’re free.”

The group of courses are called “Pixar in a Box” and include short lessons on everything from character modeling and animation to using virtual cameras. Today, it added a new course into the mix: The Art of Storytelling.

The free course is an exploration into the storytelling process at Pixar. From the course description:

“What makes someone a good storyteller? Storytelling is something we all do naturally, starting at a young age, but there’s a difference between good storytelling and great storytelling. In this lesson you’ll hear from Pixar directors and story artists about how they got their start, what stories inspire them, and you’ll begin to think about what kinds of stories you might want to tell.”

Read the full piece here

CURRENT MOOD:

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Creative friends might be interested?

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Fire Animation Tutorial

#animation tutorial #animation #pixel art #pixel art animation

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Voix7 is one of my good friends and personal inspirations-- his attentiveness to color floors me every time I see it. If you have funding, I’d highly recommend donating to his Patreon!

If you’re leaving Tumblr, feel free to follow my personal on twitter-- it’s not animation tips, just my occasional drawings and quips.

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I’ll still be on Tumblr as long as possible and reblog any animation tips that pop up and are useful, though! No worries about me going anywhere.

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some resources for people who want to start animating

free animation programs

the 12 principles of animation

51 animation exercises (from beginner to expert)

glen keane animates a scene

my advice: have fun and play–play is learning | always be watching real life to see how things move | also be watching cool animations to learn from them | it’s hard but so worth it when things turn out well, good luck!

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Pose to Pose and Straight Ahead explanation, along with combo. Material coming soon for my upcoming 2D animation tutorial package.

#animation #traditional animation

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Head rotation tips - recorded a demo for my upcoming Intro to 2D Animation Tutorial Package. I talk about flipping, tracking techniques and utilizing arcs to maintain solid drawing.

#animation #animal #2d

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I feel like I haven’t been here in years. But there’s a reason for that–I’m compositing! I’m officially done producing animation and backgrounds for Act 01 so now there’s nothing to draw or animate till I take a good look at my first crack at the edit. It’s a slog though. There are so many moving parts. And I already see a lot of places that need some tlc and revisions. Nothing major though. Just lots of small things.

#animation

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Can I talk for a moment about visual storytelling, cause, I feel like it’s something that a lot of adaptations forget about in lieu of trying to replicate their source material.

It’s a problem you see most often in anime derived from manga or light novels, but it’s also present in movies based on YA novels, and you gotta know what I’m talking about, start on black, opening narration, fade in as the main character explains the world and environment. This works in a book since the reader can’t see anything, they need the specifics of the world explained, but it feels like the movies are just like “well it worked for the book, it’ll work for us right?

I’d say it’s worse in anime, where characters will go on long internal soliloquies trying to explain their thought processes and complex emotions, which again, works for the manga, in a manga movement is very expensive, every single motion requires it’s own panel, which takes up the artist’s time, printed space, and a moment in the narrative, so it’s important to only show what absolutely needs to be shown. But animation is different, it’s all movement and the details are what sells it more than the dialogue.

The reason I wanted to make this post is because of one scene in One Punch Man that perfectly exemplifies how to translate a written thought process into visual storytelling. After getting punched to the moon (err, spoilers), Saitama has this thought process

and it’d be easy to translate that entirely literally in the anime, Saitama crouches, has an internal monologue as he tries to figure out how much force he needs to put into his jump, and then he launches. Instead though, the scene is done completely silently, to sell the fact that he’s in space, but the thought process isn’t removed, it’s just show visually.

He throws a bit of moon rock to gauge the moon’s gravity, then launches, it’s a much more thoughtful approach to the scene and the audience’s ability to interpret visual information.

I just, really wish more adaptations realized the inherent strength of the visual medium instead of relying entirely on the source material’s structure and reliance on its own medium.

#animation

josephine-meis

Halo! A friend of mine asked me to teach him the Gobelins’ way to animate a turn around, so I drew this tutorial. I thought maybe you guys might be interested too c:

#animation #traditional animation #art