So you wanna be an Animator: Selecting a Software

[@elhombrechorizo]

Guys, while I would love to give thoughts on other softwares, I cant do that because I havent used them. That doesnt mean they arent valid options or your doing something wrong! Its just means I literally cant give any thoughts on it because I have literally never used it in my life and quite frankly nor do I plan to :p Pls understand, im a human with only so much time, Im working on a short film, I cant really learn a new software in a week and give a valid review; id need about 6 months lmao So if youre wondering why something isnt on the list, its because I quite literally havent used it

[@raccoon2276]

harmony goated

[@TheHighFlys]

Lack of a discord is disappointing to me :(

[@avalell]

I would like to see you giving advice for free animation softwares, like pencil2d (i think it's good for a beginner, and even a toaster can handle it), krita, opentoonz, tahoma2d and some others if you find them (just remembered about flipaclip, but we're not talking about phones there, and firealpaca... That is very beginner artist friendly, but for an animator... It's kind of a hell, honestly), because you don't need any cash to give a review, just time and will

[@mrgaberson1465]

really late on this, but you never really tried Krita as an animtation software

[@scholarcat71]

Is it bad I use kleki

[@DandeDingus]

Blender is like...the swiss army knife of digital art. It can do EVERYTHING and all of it at least decently. The price is your soul tho.

[@Charduza]

😂 true, I spend more of my life in blender than anything else

[@ricardoborunda]

LMAOO

[@TheRealUnnamed0]

for anyone who misread this comment, they mean the price is your life, and your time. the software is free :)

[@DeXyfero]

oh yeah and another price is the ai theft by adobe but that fits in with the selling your soul bit

[@MoonlightStudiosYT]

Its free but so hard 😭 (my favorite software yet though)

[@renhaker]

Got into PC animating for the "first" time a few months ago in 2022 and my biggest weakness was finding the best software for me, it's either too laggy, too complicated, or I have to sell one healthy young family member a month to pay for it. I've looked on many articles and videos from talented trusted artists for HUNDREDS of days and this *single* video somehow taught me better than all of them. Fucking awesome 👍🏾

[@elhombrechorizo]

If you want a super responsive software for 2D bro, harmony is your best bet. Grease pencil is amazing as well if you want something free

[@johanneskirestos5316]

U could ehm *coughs*...... 🦜 it

[@knaif32]

Lag/complexity in software is an issue for me as well. Took me 3 years to fully master my 2 programs of choice, photoshop and premiere. Price shouldn't be stopping you! Pirating is RIDICULOUSLY easy nowadays. Of course do this with care, check if what you're downloading is trusted/known not to be malware etc. The time it took me to get Pr/Ps for free is a grain of sand compared to the time it'd take me to earn the money to pay for it =)

[@renhaker]

@@knaif32 I do have a couple of *[DEFINITELY LEGAL AND LEGIT]* 2022 edition adobe software that honestly work better than I expected. I don't think they'll be very reliable later after a couple years when I get more professional but they definitely are perfect right now 😅

[@anapple6912]

same but add minimalistic program with one of cons (ahem firealpaca, medibang paint, and some of the android apps like flipaclip and ibispaint... i mean, they arent really meant for animation but so is clipstudio paint and yet alot of people use it).

[@biackshibe]

Blender has a search feature I use often while modelling, it speeds up learning a lot if you know the terminology

[@tykjarxa]

yeah and blender got like 1 billion tuto about every thing on youtube, even grease pencil, so if ur re still unable to understand after 2 weeks... well just stay on paper board ;)

[@cractor6307]

@@tykjarxa No need to be a dick man. I can imagine someone used to the features of other 2d programs getting confused by blender, is a complex program and if you are not in the 3d mentality it can be quite confusing

[@Villager_U]

@@cractor6307 since blender 2.8 ui revamp,everything is so much easier now. You can even choose the premade 2d animations when you opens blender Oh and once you have learned the shortcuts, everything gonna be much more fun

[@cractor6307]

@@Villager_U I know, I'm a 3d artist who started with and mainly uses blender. I do think blender has improved a lot on the past years for new users. But I also think that if you are a mainly 2d artist there's gonna be a bit of a "culture shock" in terminology and feel. Which only adds to the confusion of the step learning curve. (BTW if anybody who Is interested in learning grease pencil reads this. You don't need to learn the whole program, you can take it piece by piece and ignore the elements you don't care about. I personally don't use grease pencil, but that's because I use blender to model and render 3d scenes, so that's the things I learned)

[@tykjarxa]

@@cractor6307 agree with that, my answer was based on the author comment in the video who say "there is no map, your friend is no help..." who is totaly wrong in the case of blender so yea if after 2 weeks u are in the state he say... well...

[@KangJangkrik]

If you're both computer graphic programmer and an artist, then blender is like revelation from god

[@SkedgyEdgy]

-- more of a monkey's paw type situation where yeah you do get all of these things but you'll lose your soul and your sanity in the process

[@KangJangkrik]

@SkedgyEdgy have you ever write assembly? :)

[@hikawagetsbitches]

blender pisses me off but finally understanding how to use parts of it feels awesome

[@DaSassyOwl]

As a Flash animator, I gotta point this out. If you wanna drag sounds onto the timeline, you gotta have a keyframe, and also extend it so the sound can play. It won't make the frames automatically xD. Aside from that... Everything else is pretty spot on, very much enjoyed this video!

[@Klaris530]

Yeah. People think adobe animate is some type of video editing software.

[@swzlerscool]

im so dumb thank you for this

[@Kavukamari]

paper stability I'd say is A-S Tier, I've never had it disappear on its own yet, usually it was user error (dropped in a puddle)

[@DesignThinkerer]

The file size is very big tho

[@theperson3739]

i lost all my childhood-to-highschool sketchbooks in a flood recently and it was heart wrenching, that, plus papercuts, has made me despise paper. one day i will have my revenge.

[@lyrajaded]

One trick I learned in college that just does not translate to digital is the fact that you can just rotate paper frames on top of each other. One of my teachers taught us this as a way to make sure you’re keeping your proportions correct

[@AlexDiesTrying]

@@theperson3739 maybe rather despise floods?

[@anapple6912]

@@theperson3739 what. do you plan on giving the paper flesh cuts?

[@kitsun3imp0ster]

Fun fact about Animate as an Animate user: You CAN add audio to the timeline, you just have to drag it to the actual canvas and not the timeline, and then manually create the amount of frames needed for the audio, which still kinda sucks but hey, whatever, you still have audio.

[@TheMarlz2]

As a 3D animator in blender, I don't need these videos at all, but seeing this style and how truly genuine you are is refreshing as hell. Keep it up!

[@hurstcifer7286]

Who asked mate ,this stuff is for beginners like us not pros like you.😶😶

[@coreragestudios3430]

As a blender user who has studying blender I agree xd

[@Xionnara]

@@hurstcifer7286they're just giving a compliment chill out..

[@talkysassis]

To be fair, Blender is a tool made for professionals. You're supposed to already know 3d modeling to use blender, or at least the terminology and workflow, because it is very similar to Maya.

[@NanerBag]

Im only 1 minute in and i feel i have gotten enough information to last me the rest of my life

[@DavidTheMeow]

Man, I was expecting you to have at least hundreds of thousands of subscribers with a video of this quality. I hope this video and your channel blows up more cause this was a really fun watch and I can't wait to see what you make in the future

[@codebreakerbeautiful]

The paper animation is how I started out so I'm happy this video included my roots. Great video for someone finally ready to take the step to digital. :)

[@ThatElfNerd]

As someone who's used Blender for over three years: You hit the nail on the head. Blender has so many amazing features and abilities that allow you to do anything you want to do in the program. But that is both a positive and a negative, since it also means that you're drowning in features that unless you follow tutorials that are specific to a thing you want to learn, you'll probably get overwhelmed because you don't know where to go with it. To this day, I can't do 2D animation in Blender, because I can't find a good tutorial series for the 2D workflow, so I just use it for 3D. Ironically, I'm using an older version of Flash/Animate for whenever I try doing 2D, but I'm also exploring the idea of OpenToonz, as it's free, open source, and has both Vector AND Raster options. I probably won't use Harmony, CSP, nor the modern version of Animate anytime soon, as I'm broke AF, and in terms of subscription-based software, I hate it to the very core, so I'm always looking for alternatives.

[@vicro4193]

hey man, can you please tell us what you think of this OpenToonz (at least compared to these other sftware) after trying it out? thanks in advance

[@diren.ııı]

remember, it's completely okay to pirate adobe products

[@valerieee36]

@@diren.ıııhow

[@Roach_draws_stuff]

Great video with awesome info. I usually use blender since I'm already aware of its 3d aspects and the grease pencil gets better the more time you spend with it.

[@goku_dunker_420]

In a weird way I'm kinda happy to hear that Blender is super confusing to learn. I learned it to get into 3D animation and though that maybe I was being a little slow understanding things as little as I did, but glad to see that just a general experience lol. and yeah learning it was turning me off it so many times

[@alexbuckland435]

Just made it through the Aseprite segment and I'd like to share some thoughts as a long-time aseprite user. - There is supposed to be an audio track feature in an update in the future, not sure how near that may be. - If you accidentally export a PNG from illustrator at like 10,000 pixels and open it with aseprite, you're gonna have a bad time. But It really won't crash unless you're working on a gigantic canvas. - There's a great community around aseprite and a lot of people make and share scripts to help with niche functionality which is handy. One of which that's great for game dev is Adam C Younis' script that exports tagged frames to their own sprite sheets. I am definitely biased toward aseprite but I need a higher-res animation software that isn't photoshop so now I shall continue watching this video. Thank you for this video.

[@IAARPOTI]

There's opentoonz tho

[@NanerBag]

Is there gonna be more parts? This is a BANGER of unexplainable proportions, even for someone who has no business with any of these softwares but still loves animation (im the after effects guy 🥂).

[@elhombrechorizo]

Of course there is! There already 2 other vids if you havent seen them! But Im gonna do like actual animation tutorials once we get past the actual before part of getting what you need!

[@MrBongers]

The description of using Blender was brutal, but so true. Totally agree. I have wanted so much to like Blender ,but I just always end up feeling like I am beating my head against the wall trying to use it. If anyone ever figures out how to streamline the user interface of Blender it could be great, but for now, I’d say no thanks I’ve got better things to spend my time on.

[@reptiliannoizezz.413]

I had bought a course on Domestika to teach me it, but eventually got stuck cuz the damn cube wouldn't let itself get sculpted on

[@peterhindes56]

@@reptiliannoizezz.413 you need more vertices, otherwise your just pushing around the corners

[@reptiliannoizezz.413]

@@peterhindes56 So, subdivide first?

[@DesignThinkerer]

dedouze has a few videos that are great for learning the grease pencil

[@Dr_Ender]

Imo, i think the interface, etc is perfectly fine right now. I learned blender when it had the old gray ui and man when the new ui came out. I instantly thought im so fkin jealous of the people who are starting to learn it now. Each their own of course though. I wish you luck if you ever pick up blender again.

[@spoony8497]

10:08 Although I had similar problems with clip studio when I started animating, after I understood it it became my favorite version. The timeline just directly showing you what is drawn on each frame can make it substantially easier to navigate through than other animation software where you have a dot or a cell as an indicator. The files that spawn on the right when you make a new layer are overwhelming at the start, but again, are super useful comparatively. you can organize much easier and shift around the orientation much easier as well.

[@chanteshante]

You described the blender experience so we'll, like no other, LMAO, it's like great, but also I'm aways so lost, I've never been more grateful for KZbin tutorials before I decided to try blender

[@mrtaki998]

BRO WHY DON'T YOU HAVE MORE SUBSCRIBERS?! Anyways, you're really great! Your videos are funny and well structured and I like the way you review stuff. This really puts stuff in a new light and helps me decide what I would want to use to animate. Thanks a lot man!

[@annonimooseq1246]

Having used blender for at least 7 years and being fairly comfortable with it, hearing my friend asks if blender is free and if it works on their operating system felt like I was one of the mentors in the hunger games

[@TheAdrixzProductions]

imo CSP deserves a higher tier. It's a bit clunky at first but it's VERY easy once you get where stuff is. I started at flipnote on DSi, then Harmony then CSP and I'm not sure I'd go back to harmony. CSP just has so many tools for everything easily accessible. You can use vector brushes to work very similarly to Harmony, the paint bucket is perfect for coloring animations with the ability to go a bit over. You can draw everything in black and then choose the colors with the layer color feature. It has keyframes, auto actions, batch import, 3D, amazing custom brushes etc etc. I would suggest changing some hotkeys though, I have the , and . keys as previous and next keyframe because I found it very useful in Harmony, I also added an auto action to the / key create a duplicate of the current layer in the next one since I also remembered using something similar on Harmony. Harmony is good, but the drawing in CSP is unbeatable.

[@IsisTOU]

May I ask you if you’d have some tutorial videos or suggestions to learn all of that ?? It’s been years that I’m using CSP and you pointed out stuff I didn’t even know existed even tho I have the EX version. Also another question, can’t we really add music/sound to CSP meanwhile we’re animating ?! I wanted to animate my memes, animatics, animations,… there and I cannot afford a sub to AE rn … if you do have any recommendations, I’d be pleased to hear ! Thank you !

[@mikasauro]

15:30 you just drag into the blank space of the timeline and done the audio is there

[@Bann]

I use an old version of adobe flash for animation. I do not do this because I already had it, or because I don't feel like learning something better, I use it because I like how the lines look.

[@kocobunnyy]

if tv paint was in this video id probably find it easy to choose between krita, harmony and tv paint as my main platforms to animate on. but this is a great video overall for helping me try to make up my mind with what i want/dont want to use later in my life

[@Magicalgiraffe_]

Homie, you can throw audio in both Adobe Animate & Csp! It can be a bit of hassle sometimes. I forgot what version of animate i used but it would only let me use mp3 files for some reason😅However, i think that problem has been fixed. I've been trying to learn after effects and low-key it's been making me wanna bash my own head, lol. I use it more for "moving graphics" than "traditional animation". The major reason I use CSP is for the vector brushes. Compared to the vector brushes in adobe illustrator/animate, CSP has vector brushes that look like "traditional" art tools such as (pencil, chalk, etc.) The "cleanliness" of vector tools/ animation is great! Although i prefer that "texture" traditional animation has and CSP is a nice happy medium ! I don't have to sacrifice quality ! Great video btw 💛

[@sticky4401]

Have you heard of the software called "Cacani"? It's a 2D animation software with added tools to speed up and semi automate in-between frames, and also the lines you draw can be edited as vectors. I haven't spend much time with it but from what i've seen online its pretty cool.

[@peterhindes56]

Oh cool, I think blender has that too

[@delfinal7560]

I'm really glad I found this channel, it's really amazing

[@JustCallMeElGamer]

21:37 to be real, this is what i feel about blender for the past few days I been learning blender for about a weekish, and made some things im say im proud of, but there are so many things to learn and do, right now im rendering a piece and want to figure out how to make it better, now there are some amazing discord servers to get feedback and what to do aswell as me being the type of person to love learning new stuff that would genuinely surpirse me, but man, when I want a result and idk how to name it, it sucks And don’t even get me started on animating 3d

[@BonnibelTheCosmicArchivist]

Finally someone that doesn't lie to my face about blender 😭 It annoyed me so much every time someone told me "blender is easy" YEAH, IF U MANAGE TO PERSIST THROUGH WEEKS OF LEARNING my focus with these yhings is 100% based on first impressions, and blender post animation+ game dev era is just too confusing

[@TheVisionaryAnimation]

Just wanna let you know man, I completely thought that you were some massive youtuber, as the video quality and the flow of everything felt so perfect. Keep going man, we'll all watch with baited breath to see where you will end up.

[@chancemcgee1069]

This is the best video on KZbin. You are a legend for using that Streets of Rage 3 track. I didn't know Animate was that bad tbh, but yeah...I can see it lol Good video man, damn good.

[@PistachioOwl]

10:09 I mostly use CSP for making comics or illustrations, but I do have the animation process on there very streamlined... first of all, I have the thumbnails nonexistent in the timeline. And then, I have my auto-action for duplicating cells (which can be a hassle depending on what layer you're selecting.) And then there's audio, I've found that importing .wav files was the only way I could get the audio to sync up without having to render it when I want to preview it (I think it's good for syncing up actions with music more than lip-syncing.) Finally, my favorite feature is that instead of a normal raster layer for the cell you can make it into a folder containing multiple layers, then just duplicate that layer for each cell... and it's a pretty cool process, I think. Just wanted to share my process on making the software easier... loved the video!

[@lyrajaded]

I worked in animate for 8+ years as a professional animator (my avatar is me sitting in my cintiq box lol). There are things I genuinely enjoyed about it, mostly how good it is at utilizing loops and embedded animation, with different functions depending if it was for web or broadcast animation I recently got back into animation, and jumped back into animate, because I’m so familiar with it. Had to do an animation in 4k and EXR colours, and animate just DOES NOT DO THAT (tho it is nice to animate at 50% and just scale it in AE) Thank you for this list. I’m trying to figure out which direction I want to go, and this gives me a decent idea of what I may want to try :)

[@lrdalucardart]

2:00 but CSP/CLIPT STUDIO PAINT is both Vector and Raster software... Not to mention CSP doesn't crash 90% of the time like photoshop does. (it also has 3D but you need a separated csp program to build the 3D models from scratch) And that's exactly why I stopped using Photoshop is the lack of Vectors, all my drawings and animations are made with vectors or combination of both.

[@RCWrightX89]

The beginning hits hard especially after you literally just built a rig that can handle it all and you are ready to start your journey of content creation.

[@huntsman9316]

Got TV paint. I bought it because I’ve heard great things but also it’s one time payment so I don’t feel rushed when I don’t feel like animating for a couple weeks

[@Phil-tb7wr]

This is the video I have been trying to find, thank you so much! Top Tier video! Only heartbreaking to see how power hungry harmony is o.O

[@azza_weak]

In case anyone's curious about Photoshop's animation tool, It's so barebones in shortcuts, that it's basically paper animation with the perks of digital art. It's simple to use, any brush and adjustment Ps has can be used there, but all layers are shared between frames (so it's essentially 1 layer per different frame), but making folders helps a bit. Changing time is a bit akward. Exporting is ok, works for mp4, gif, or images. No audio related things at all, but you can technically use the effects and adjustment for post production. I've used it a lot for smaller loops and animatics, it's pretty good and fast for that. Sending it to any video editing software later complements what it lachs well (It's mainly DaVinci Resolve for me, free and great). To reference, Hollow Knight sprites were made in Ps.

[@Mell_Min]

Wish I knew how to use Harmony instead of Animate, I cant find tweening and symbol in Harmony.

[@reptiliannoizezz.413]

Would like to step in and also bring Krita to the spotlight! It's a completely free drawing software, gets updated... every once in a while, coloring lineart is easy thanks to its colorize mask feature, rarely has crashed on me for one, and of course has an animation mode that in my experience is not very hard to use (audio scrubbing kinda janky on my pc tho) and does both frame-by-frame *and* tweening! And when you open it you're greeted with a cute squirrel girl. What else could you ask for (/j)

[@BVK.]

Yeah, Aside from the cute squirrel girl waifu to greet you, My computer crashes alot using Krita, Probably due to my computer model or something because on my laptop, it's perfectly fine, Strange how that works...

[@knopfir]

@@BVK. i think krita has a thing for laptops, i use the shitty potato laptop alot but drawing on canvases in 4K barely if at all crashes the software

[@s2mediapro742]

Great video! Fun fact though, you actually can do audio scrubbing in CSP. Something that stumbled across the other day while using it.

[@elhombrechorizo]

Hmmmm I know you can add audio. Unless it something im not understanding, how do you audio scrub in csp?

[@DeviantRides]

As someone who spent the day trying to learn animation and Blender at the same time... Your mansion analogy hit me in my soul. Too accurate!

[@TigerHenry678]

Amazing video, I’ve been thinking of making a show in the future and I’ve been wondering what software I’d use, thanks for guiding!

[@unaninated]

This is a great video, i personally use CSP and blender. the learning curve is definitely their but quality and over time saving you an get by having a complete backdrop in infinite perspectives is great. I'm considering other software that allow 2d puppets like moho, which I think is a one time payment

[@shlokbhakta2893]

Blender is so hard. I have given up 4 times over the course of 7-8 years and it keeps bringing me back and this time I have won. I can now say I KNOW blender ❤

[@axolotl_gamings]

THANK YOU SO MUCH i had so much trouble finding just a right animating software that’s affordable this video covered everything i need to know thank you

[@SomeoneTookGameBoiiiii]

As a semi-blender user I completely agree with the Ease of Use description.

[@AniMesuro]

23:30 Honestly it was all worth it. The editing is so godly and crunchy.

[@zombotrombo7029]

This be the most useful video I've ever watched. So much thought in it thankyou chorizofather

[@anxiousweeb8753]

10:15 you can adjust the timeline size, like its not a new feature you could've always make it smaller

[@VaniIsAnIdiot]

I'm a low-poly 3d modeler and a digital artist (raster and pixelart) gotta say this is the video i needed for a long time! i've been trying to find a good animation program but still stayed on aseprite (i pirated it too). i feel a little upset that i can't use audio there, but i like pixely stuff so i didn't mind it that much, though, i'm scared of photoshop. i might try something that i feel comfy with one day. oh, and a thing abt blender from my experience opening it for the first time, it seems like it can make a cheese toast with my laptop, so i stayed with Blockbench. i learned that maybe blender is a little out of my comfort zone, but i'd like to try blender some day

[@DoomedMadhouse]

I subbed so I can say I was here when you were at 1.1k subscribers haha Also really love that you included Flipnote Studio and Aseprite lol. Love those programs despite not being as popular for animation than the other ones. Especially Flipnote, I remember using that back in the DSi days.

[@knightforlorn6731]

thanks. I found your video helpful. I've been on the fence with blender for years and I think I will finally dive in

[@nevillebatomene]

What you said about blender being a maze and all, is extremely true. I struggle a lot and I'm stilll trying to get used to some things in it

[@asdproducts6590]

thank you for letting me know what to expect from blender

[@Montaintoprose]

CSP also has vector that I love even more than Toon Boom’s! You can use some of the nice raster brushes as vector and the work pretty much the same and it makes coloring one of the most fun parts of the process💕💕💕 I used CSP vector for the lines/coloring of the most recent animation on my channel lol if anyone wants to see it in use I also have the process in the video

[@blackheartblasian]

bro im in tears 😭 S Tier vid

[@UrAverageJoe_]

in adobe flash, you gotta make a new keyframe, drag the audio to the stage, then pull that frame out until the audio is finished lmao

[@mu4784]

Thank the youtube algorhithm for bringing me to an actually useful video! Lovely voice work and head bashing 10/10

[@andrewglick6279]

Someone may have already commented on this, but Aesprite is free if you are willing to compile the source code yourself. Granted, the audience here is primarily artists, not programmers, and even as someone who does a fair bit of coding, it still took me about an hour to figure out how to compile Aesprite for the first time. So, for all intents and purposes, Aesprite is $20 (which may be why you didn't mention the compile-it-yourself option), but I still felt it is worth mentioning.

[@thepuzzlemaster64]

Another simple animation software I used was Pencil2D (Raster/Vector). That one is a bit weird since it's really capable, but it's very limited. The way Pencil2D feels is like a small old house that's in the middle of being renovated. Very good stuff, but tons of bugs and limitations (No fancy brushes, vector tools are unfinished, using the line tool can sometimes crash the program, sound mixing is buggy, exporting an image sequence has a resolution cap while exporting as a gif/movie doesn't). Though, since the program is so small you figure-out all the quirks pretty fast and you can make some decent animations with it. The whole program gave me MS Paint vibes. Small, limited, and unimpressive looking, but can pack a decent punch if you fiddle around with it enough.

[@SwordfighterRed]

Yeah, they were trying to fix it up and make it something great, but I have to wonder if progress stalled on it because of Krita's progress.

[@thepuzzlemaster64]

​@@SwordfighterRed I don't think Krita is why Pencil2D has stalled. It's definitely a reason why development has stalled quite a bit, but the real reason is because they don't accept donations. I know this because I wanted to donate to them, but they told me that they don't want people to "pay for an unfinished program" even if it would help-out a lot. So for as good as Pencil2D can be, its development will forever be at a snails pace because devs don't want to work for free when Krita, Blender, OpenToonz, etc... have a tip jar they can take a bit of money from

[@SwordfighterRed]

@@thepuzzlemaster64 Makes sense.

[@thepuzzlemaster64]

Might as well add this here as well since I recently played with it. OpenToonz! (Raster/Vector) Best vector animation software on Linux, and it's free to boot! It just has the exact same problems as Blender (minus the 3D terminology and the video editing). Though, unlike Blender, I needed to find a tutorial on how to save files in a custom location. This thing just actively doesn't want you to use it, and it fights you to stay away from it constantly at first. Never have I seen a program so intimidating to use as this one. I'd rather use Blender over OpenToonz However, since I had no other choice on Linux (the only other vector programs are either unfinished, or Blender which ran super slowly), I had to tame this beast of a program, and it gets decent to use after watching a few tutorials that show the basics of how it works (and I've animated with Krita and Pencil2D beforehand so you know it's tough). Overall I'd put it up there in C tier. It's a good program, was created by Studio Ghibli, and it's great for an animation studio...but it's not good for little Jimmy down the street who want to draw a bouncy ball...or even someone who's used to every single other animation program out there, you really need an open-mind for this one

[@inxendere]

Clip Studio Paint can be vector based. Look into vector layers. Just because of that I would put it in A tier

[@Daduu]

YO WTF, this video kept me up and didnt even feel like it was a 24 minute video and to top it off YOU ONLY HAVE 900 some SUBS??!!!? nah wtf man WTF. Great job. great fucking job

[@Stariemezmez_OFFICIAL]

For me I like ibispaint and flipaclip ibispaint for normal drawing,animating with out audio,and just doodling and flipaclip for lipsyncing,audio,importing downloaded/recorded videos for lip syncs and drawing and capcut for editing the videos and main audios and sounds and alight motion for clean animation so i dont break my drawing tablet but I'm in middle school so I'll probably find other programs I like

[@williamalyabacar7489]

This video was really informative man ! thanks and that explanation on blender tools was hilarious

[@thomasfarr16]

"Only the most bearable" so true

[@smileeface]

As a CSP animator, lemme clarify you on a few things: you can actually use vectors, adding a new vector layer is the square one right next to the raster layer, and they just added an audio scrubbing feature in version 3. But most of this other stuff I definitely agree on. I have to save almost every time I make a stroke because the autosave feature is essentially useless.

[@BhaiyaPaintingTX]

Just subbed for that intro. Great video 💯

[@ChrisArtsTube]

I been 3D modeling in blender for like 1.5 years. and I just started 2D grease pencil a month ago after finally buying a tablet monitor. I've used, flash, Procreate, Procreate dreams, Photoshop, flip a clip, and by a mile I love blender a hell of a lot more. Not only, I have been storyboarding, and making animatics so fast with blender than any of the other programs. overall I'd Rate Blender an A. but that's just me.

[@fmphotooffice5513]

Applause, applause. Excellent presentation.

[@kariasart]

You can drag audio in the timeline of adobe animate, but you need to draw it in to the canvas, then it appears in the timeline, then you can chose if what kind of play you need to the audio, you can even autolipsinc characters with it

[@itamar8424]

The analogy u made with blender is kinda correct but if u are hungry dont eat beans just make some donuts and once u understand the compound you can create a rocketship very fast

[@memesquad4838]

Ok flash user, add a new layer and then add your music to the timeline! You can then use the music, cut it, etc. It's very versatile.

[@kjixkho8260]

As a amateur artist who is using Krita, I also want to listen you guys's opinion about this software. So far this software is still deceloping and I LOVE THAT PERSPECTIVE TOOL, other than that it's a bit like a spaceship like Blender to me. Not sure how ya guys think I haven't even touched the animation workspace but maybe I might in future

[@roo.pzz4380]

Krita is awesome

[@_SAUR_]

for audio in Adobe flash, you drop it into the scene and it then links to the timeline lmao. It was always done that way i'm pretty sure

[@_SAUR_]

The amount of keyframes has to match the length of the audio too i'm pretty sure

[@onion405]

this guy's a jolly jokey mc-jokester, great video

[@PRIXIZIBIGGESTFAN]

ok so as a adobe animator myself i dont use it anymore BUT- here r my thoughts on adobe animate/flash the subscription is pretty expensive 4 what u get bc adobe animate rlly isnt that good (in my opinion) i used it for fnf sprites thats why i liked it a bit the rest of the stuff was hard to use the onion (idk if i spelt that right) was off cuz when i drew and then turned on the onion it would kinda break bc the two colours wouldnt go to the frame ahead to thats why i didnt do frame by frame animation and only did the motion one next one is the drawing, the pen is pretty good for the stabilization and outlining but they could of added more pens to it except the default pen so its pretty bad but kinda good the audio, i agree about what u said about it, if adobe made updates and included that one i would buy it again (also the way u put in the audio is by getting the mp3 etc u put it on the menu where u entered it then make a new layer go to object or frame i cant remember then go to the audio settings i think then put one of the audio things on stream then drag it down to the layer ur audio is on after that u have to drag a frame then u will the the orange audio) i think i might be wrong so pls correct me if i did. but it would be WAY better + easier for only dragging the audio from the player onto there instead of having to do all of that just to get one audio anyways my rating on adobe animate/flash is a decent 6.9/10

[@elhombrechorizo]

Onion skin is breaking, audio importing is still clunky, pen options are limited, sub isnt really worth it; sounds like a D to me lmao Yes the audio thing was just a gag lmao to show the little things that adobe has refused to update and yes its small, but also its small i know they can make that change cause literally all their softwares you can drag audio on the timeline, workspace, binspace and it just works Animate has the potential to be babys first software (premiere and audition are so easy to jump into), but adobe still makes it a wall to bash your skull against and it drives me CRAZY

[@PRIXIZIBIGGESTFAN]

@@elhombrechorizo oh lol- i agree it should be a D i would recommend for beginners flipaclip its a mobile animation app its free u can also be on pc to use it but u need bluestacks- but it is a pretty simple animating software since thats what i use all the time for my animations so i think u should make a video rating it if u wanna the stuff on flipaclip is: layers, 6 pens, a ruler with 3 options (straight + circle + square), paintbucket tool, lasso tool, text tool, and even audio + audio library + audio recorder, i think its a rlly good app tho for starters sooo yea

[@PRIXIZIBIGGESTFAN]

i forgot they also have a onion and u can colourize them too in the options, they also have a grid u just have to go in the 3 dots, another one is the frames viewer + u can add images and videos

[@2teepeepictures382]

OK, I haven’t watch the video yet but I wanted to leave this comment before I forget. Dang! That intro slaps!

[@iamaylacat3935]

started animation with 3d stuff, so natually of all of the ones listed in this video you can tell where I ended up. I do tend to follow a brute force technique when learning things, instead of doing it the "proper" way and following tutorials. Granted, I feel like this has worked better for me as I have really quickly learned the stuff I absolutely need. However, I find I constantly need to keep a notes file open at all times just to keep track of everything and also have a quick link to any guides I may need for less frequently used features.

[@a.j.outlaster1222]

As someone who is learning Grease Pencil in Blender, Your criticisms hurt... But they were spot on and fair...

[@hash4202]

I’ve been using blenders 3D and Grease Pencil features a lot! If you’re good enough, you can even achieve mixed animation like Tag Team or 2D animated rigs. I love creating 2D animations and I love modeling too, so it was awesome making stuff with it!

[@hash4202]

It’s a good alternative to Adobe Animates tweening and there’s a lot of mixed movement and camera controls. I even created a few rigs for some TPOT characters and pretty accurately recreated a scene!

[@hash4202]

And one more thing to add- you can make a just specific file for 2D animations and it works really good if you don’t want to worry about going into 3 dimensions so quickly. Jesse Jones has a good tutorial on this!

[@mobinvaryan7196]

seeing everyone talks about the complexity of the blender made me feel relieved. thank god I thought I was just stupid

[@jemko]

15:21 you have to drag it onto the canvas and it will be in the timeline....

[@nolwazi3076]

i managed to make an animated music video in clip studio. the difficulty curve was insane like wtf. (especially since i was on a time limit)but i managed thanks to a really good tutorials that basically thought me the animation ui and stuff :> and yeah it turned out pretty well! I also know how to import images and stuff without fucking up the timeline so that's nice. imo i would have it as at least an a tier. krita is my ride or die for drawing softwares so yeah. krita has come up with some really cool animation updates too! like being able to make storyboards in the software. but the music scrubbing is still pain ;w; Harmony sounds really nice especially for the sound scrubbing but i have no money to pay every month. so krita and clip are fine for me. especially since i am still practicing so yeah idk. it's pretty good. also clip never crashed for me when i was animating. ;w;

[@WW_Studios]

This is a really good video! Nice work!!!

[@Keruson]

3:15 Seoul Town - The King of Fighters 96' OST 9:28 Get on a Train - Street Fighter III : New Generation OST

[@Julian-uq7dn]

funny enough, but Aseprite did actually crashed on me one time. It was not any typical pixelart scenario though, I opened 3000x3000 png in aseprite and messed with inbuild aseprite fx (yes, those exist). I messed with them a lot (i was trying to make kinda glitchy-looking colorful background for something) and when I applied one of the fx aseprite actually crashed. And I wasn't running some grabage tier thinkpad from the 2000's, I was on my middle-of-the-road gaming pc. So yeah. Kids remember, everything can crash, so pls save you work like once in 10 min.

[@elhombrechorizo]

Lmao I know I shouldn’t be laughing at your pain We all learn the hard way when we push software to its limits to push our own limits, man is def more resilient than machine in that aspect

[@Julian-uq7dn]

@@elhombrechorizo oh, it wasn't really painful, I was just messing around for the most part, I just said to save everything when you actually working on something. But ye, saving still wouldn't hurt

[@DaKussh]

Asperite is opens source, you can compile it from the repo free of charge, but yeah, it's good if we supposed the devs when we have the means to. Also, I started to learn animation with PowerPoint lmao, I was born in it, molded by it.

[@incendiarycrocs7449]

I had Adobe animate because I use Photoshop and lightroom and stuff so thanks for the input I was wondering why I was getting a bit fucked over

[@peatz4193]

you just earned a sub today! it’s so entertaining and make me want to try those thing!

[@Gustoberg]

My first attempt at animation has been with blender (cuz I'm poor and don't know how to draw) and I learned 2 things 1) If I add more than 1 object it will seem like I am in slow motion and it phisically pains me every time it studders and goes all the way to the other side of the object when it is really close up 2) it is pretty easy to learn once you kinda understand the fundamentals of it (I made a desk without a tutorial yayyy) like really, if you understand youtube tutorials really well you will be making roblox looking models the same day

[@lumineark]

Ive been using animate since 9th grade! You can get audio, you drag it in, and it's on that layer :D You just need to asd frames you can also scrub the audio as well.

[@loukka]

Clip Studio Paint is becoming basically a subscription now

[@leonardolopez8608]

good looks mate ! keep it up

[@DistinctlyMeFilms]

You can also composite in Harmony like Blender but your need the most advanced version

[@Teapot-km8wk]

0:45 Open Tunes is a wrong choice because its format is not even watchable ANYWHERE

[@kipchickensout]

i had my volume on normal to understand you, then the music came and i almost died putting the volume down and then I couldn't hear shit and had to put it back up xd