I am an aspiring animator, but I have no idea where to start. I was wondering if anyone knew of a free online class or helpfl web series. Thank you.
At 5/17/18 11:54 PM, LCostello wrote: I am an aspiring animator, but I have no idea where to start. I was wondering if anyone knew of a free online class or helpfl web series. Thank you.
What are you trying to animate?
At 5/18/18 09:58 AM, gritgrinder wrote:At 5/17/18 11:54 PM, LCostello wrote: I am an aspiring animator, but I have no idea where to start. I was wondering if anyone knew of a free online class or helpfl web series. Thank you.What are you trying to animate?
I want to get into 2d animation, I want to create an animation i can put on my college application.
It's too early to be watching tutorials and absorbing materials.
They can easily overwhelm you and as a result, you might end up doing nothing at all.
So I suggest to start off simple first by taking action.
Draw a simple character in one pose,
then the same character in another pose.
Afterwards, try to connect the two poses by drawing poses in-between the two.
Do that, post it here, and we'll give you feedback on it.
Good luck!
The only type of toturial I ever watched was how the software I used worked.
Otherwise I just played arround by drawing on my computer for a couple years until I felt confident enough to share my work with the world. Try to just experiment and develop a technique that fits you.
Agree, make a 2d ball bounce and you will learn the most important part: are you actually cut for animation?
At 5/17/18 11:54 PM, LCostello wrote: I am an aspiring animator, but I have no idea where to start. I was wondering if anyone knew of a free online class or helpfl web series. Thank you.
Adam Becker did a lot of different animation. It is based on flash but he also explains different principals and shows how to make the animation more fluid, etc.Here's a link!
At 5/17/18 11:54 PM, LCostello wrote: I am an aspiring animator, but I have no idea where to start. I was wondering if anyone knew of a free online class or helpfl web series. Thank you.
Im an aspiring animator too, To be honest I never thought I would start animating until later but now I already uploaded 3 animations, They may not be good animations but at least Im trying and getting better. Try getting fire alpaca for easy animation layout (its free) And there is a video to teach you animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpN5QD9aM4g
Enjoy man
At 5/23/18 12:22 AM, TheMightyWeakling wrote:At 5/17/18 11:54 PM, LCostello wrote: I am an aspiring animator, but I have no idea where to start. I was wondering if anyone knew of a free online class or helpfl web series. Thank you.Im an aspiring animator too, To be honest I never thought I would start animating until later but now I already uploaded 3 animations, They may not be good animations but at least Im trying and getting better. Try getting fire alpaca for easy animation layout (its free) And there is a video to teach you animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpN5QD9aM4g
Enjoy man
Thank you soooooooo much for suggesting firealpaca, no other free animation software comes close, I was using pencil 2d and it practically looked like pixel art.
Thank you soooooooo much for suggesting firealpaca, no other free animation software comes close, I was using pencil 2d and it practically looked like pixel art.
Hey no problem, just figured it would be a great way to get your foot in the door
Uhmm... Animating in FireAlpaca is very limited, because it uses layers to animate, instead of a proper timeline. You really want the timeline and the layers to be separate in order to work efficiently
If you are looking for something free and more capable than FireAlpaca try either Krita or OpenToonz (or both!). Both are open source and free. Krita is pretty simple, and an immediate upgrade from FireAlpaca.
www.krita.org
And no advertisements either when starting the apps (unlike FireAlpaca) ...
Check out this animation done in Krita:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOTY_421Qcg
At 5/23/18 04:20 PM, hvanderwegen wrote: Uhmm... Animating in FireAlpaca is very limited, because it uses layers to animate, instead of a proper timeline. You really want the timeline and the layers to be separate in order to work efficiently
If you are looking for something free and more capable than FireAlpaca try either Krita or OpenToonz (or both!). Both are open source and free. Krita is pretty simple, and an immediate upgrade from FireAlpaca.
Very true Firealpaca is very limited but I think its a good place to start learning how to manipulate motion or improve drawing
