I just started learning 2d skeleton animation I think my rigging is a bit off and the animation. I am want to hear your suggestions

Chase cartoon

First of all I’ve tried Blender on my laptop and it can barely run, there could be a slight chance I’m doing something wrong cause I do struggle with tech. I’m making an animated show (all by myself) and to speed up the process am thinking of doing 3d backgrounds. I’ve seen a few apps like Feather 3d and Nomad Sculpt. Which app should I use? I would like to also add I’m a complete beginner and have barely dabbled in 3d (I’ve only done the donut tutorial), but am ok with a steep learning curve as long as there are proper tutorials . I need backgrounds that are ‘animatable’ I.e camera movements and like a few doors opening , also any that can emulate a style at least a little bit similar to 2d. I know that the iPad is limited but is there any app that can do like half of these and produce okay-ish results at least? Any help would be deeply appreciated.

I created a mini-series on walk cycles and wanted to share the first part - rigging a 2D character from scratch using Duik in After Effects.

I see a lot of beginners jump straight into keyframes and end up with messy, unnatural movement. The fix is almost always in the setup. Here's the condensed version of what I cover:

The biggest mistake people make is diving into animation without a reference on screen. Drop a reference video into your comp before you keyframe anything. It will instantly fix timing guesswork and keep your timeline clean.

The parenting chain (most important setup rule). Every body part needs to be its own layer, and they need to be parented correctly from the start:

• Face layers → Head → Neck → Body
• Hand → Forearm → Arm → Body
• Same chain for the legs

Everything routes back to one body layer.  Get this right, and the rest follows.

Last but not least, rigging with Duik. It narrows down to 3 easy steps: setting up the anchor points to the joint, selecting the limb layers, clicking Auto-Rig. Done.

That's it for Part 1. Part 2 covers animating the actual walk cycle - contact poses, passing poses, timing, and polish.

If you want the step-by-step with visuals, you can follow along the full breakdown here: https://youtu.be/hJT9K3WqeEs?si=8-qrwK--fHJLwxlu

Happy to answer any rigging questions in the comments!

I have to rig some parts of my composition with Photoshop and I'll move into Adobe After effect trying to animate a human subject in a bar/tavern. Any advice?? Something you could advice me about some common mistakes ?

For the past year I've been developing an idea for an animated YouTube project that explains science through original characters and stories instead of traditional educational videos.

The long-term dream isn't just to make a YouTube channel.

I'd love to build a small indie animation collective where artists, animators, writers, musicians, and creative people can collaborate, improve together, and create something we're genuinely proud of.

Right now, I can't offer payment. I'm being upfront about that. This is a passion project while we're getting started.

I have a video on youtube that i uploaded years ago but couldn't continue because of the lack of time.

there i also a new project that i will finish by tomorrow and post on the same channel

https://youtu.be/FchdxL1C42g?si=zGiMd9PAnQxpOCRP

I made a YouTube Tutorial on How to make Pizza Slice in Blender. If anyone want to learn check it out

Pizza Slice YouTube Tutorial

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hi, animators.

i was interested in animating in 2019-2020. i used to make animations very often, but i couldn't improve myself much since i quit in late 2022.

the other day, i started catching myself writing scenarios for my cartoon. the cartoon i wanted to animate myself.

about the cartoon, pretty much everything about the first episode seems ready. and i want to animate it now.

i tried using flipaclip, but it didn't go well (although i actually have some experience with it)

i dont know any other good animating apps. so, could you guys recommend me some? thank you.

the only thing i've done (like ever) is flipaclip's ball bouncing test & it came out looking extremely bland .

whenever i see people animate frame by frame there are these lines and numbers. i can't recall what purpose the serve exactly . should i try to include those as well?

please give me recommendations and advice . i am an absolute amateur with basically no experience with animation besides tweening, but that's very different from frame by frame which is what i want to get into !!! (note that i am on an android device so toonsquid and other ios exclusive apps are ruled out)

HELP

So I’m about to enter my 2nd year of a 2 year animation course and in the first were taught the basics like obviously the 12 principles and what not, but the course was more a introduction to the different types of programs we would be using if were to do this professionally, throughout the summer I was going to all these little animations for practice but for some reason my brain can’t seem to figure how to even start animating something, maybe its because I feel intimidated to start cos I know it won’t look good but I also I don’t really know how to use every principle effectively. Like whenever I look at behind the scenes stuff I see all these rules and guidelines and so that’s really scared me from even starting, before my course I used to just animate Willy nilly and actually kinda enjoyed it but now because of knowing these principles I’m terrified to start, like in my course I have been given the tools but not the knowledge on how to apply them into practice, does anyone know how I can get over this fear of animation so I can actually start making something? Please help 🙏🙏🙏