So you wanna be an Animator: Selecting a Software

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Quick insert because I'm really over working on this video
The big reason a lot of people like using Vector based software over pixel based software is the READABILITY vector gives you.
Yes, you can get detailed in raster software, but animation is all about understanding and being able to read what you're seeing on the screen. You want your lines to be as clean and not wobbly as possible and vector is perfect for that.
And if you want some wobble in your line, adjust your pen sensitivity to make the lines vary in the vector software!
Sections
Intro - 00:38
The types of animation software - 01:33
The ranking system - 03:11
Paper - 05:09
Aseprite - 07:42
CSP - 09:27
Flipnote 3D - 11:58
Adobe Animate - 13:47
Harmony - 16:11
Blender - 18:38
Final Thoughts - 22:01

[@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

[@DandeSaft]

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

[@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

[@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).

[@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.

[@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)

[@theophiled]

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?

[@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.

[@NanerBag]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@OvOanimationstudios]

Even though I'm currently dead set on Blender, I still sat through the whole video simply because it was so enjoyable. Mad props dude.

[@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!

[@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_was_here]

remember, it's completely okay to pirate adobe products

[@zombotrombo7029]

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

[@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

[@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

[@asdproducts6590]

thank you for letting me know what to expect from blender

[@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.

[@williamalyabacar7489]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@enzocrafts]

Adobe animate does have audio scrubbing, you just have to make a new layer and import in to stage lol. The software is honestly pretty ok other than the fact that you can barely use different brushes without it crashing, coloring is a little tough but there are some features that literally color multiple frames at once, (if you are using fill), and exporting with audio in the stage lowers the quality quite a bit but you should be using the original wav or mp3 files for the final animation anyway.

[@whirr11WasStolen]

as a flash cs5 user i agree with u

[@megustaav]

I wish they could get line tool from Illustrator to animate...that would be a game changer for me.

[@peatz4193]

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

[@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

[@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?

[@theophiled]

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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@dante_ala_carte]

roblox studio

[@CheeseStuff]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@lachlanmc2335]

Oh hell nah

[@aomsingamingyt]

Okay

[@babypupa3]

genuinely a viable option!

[@lachlanmc2335]

@@babypupa3 no it's not 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫 🥶🥶🥶

[@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!

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@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 💛

[@chantekiddo2293]

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

[@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

[@loukka]

Clip Studio Paint is becoming basically a subscription now

[@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!!!

[@hermitcell8568]

Great info learnt so much Thanks 🙏

[@mustachewalrus]

Really helpful, I was planning on getting better at clip studios, but I'm not familiar with it enough for me to justify learning it completely for it not to be my main driver in anything. I want to just be able to learn the principals of animation, flipnote was super easy for me as a kid, why not now as an adult.

[@fmphotooffice5513]

Applause, applause. Excellent presentation.

[@xaviermora4854]

I just use FlipaClip it’s pretty straight forward, draw something, new frame, draw something, new frame, it really keeps you going

[@thomasfarr16]

"Only the most bearable" so true

[@reikadoodles]

💝 Great work. You describe my experience with each of these programs to a T.

[@AniMesuro]

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

[@brickydajana]

great video! for me, beginner in animation, it helps a lot

[@BhaiyaPaintingTX]

Just subbed for that intro. Great video 💯

[@a.j.outlaster1222]

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

[@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

[@tasha3757]

Thank you! 🙏

[@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.

[@IvanGovnov]

Thank you, Chorizo. that video is really help me. + One subscriber!

[@TotalMaggotz]

finally a KZbin animator that actually tells his fans what software to use, i would love to see you do a video editor tier list next

[@elhombrechorizo]

Honestly bro. I just use premiere. Premiere is what makes people think adobe is a good company cause its easily the most simple editing software, that makes actual sense and you can dive into with 0 tutorial. Its actually just so good. Ui is clean, as wide as a puddle but deep as an ocean in terms of what can be done with it. Most people use premiere as an audio editor as well because it functions so well and you can even do some rough motion graphics. If you dont want use to premiere, just use davinci resolve. Its free. Im not too big on sony vegas or pinnacle. Editing in blender is complete dogass. Theres my 1 paragraph tier list

[@TotalMaggotz]

@@elhombrechorizo is vegas shit?

[@elhombrechorizo]

@@TotalMaggotz no, premiere and resolve are just way better

[@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.

[@mu4784]

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

[@jamescandyland]

Yo that intro was EPIC!🔥🤘🔥

[@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

[@mobinvaryan7196]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@meakimon]

Honestly. I used the tutorial series from surfaced studio, to learn how to get used to some hotkeys, and how to make a simple chest.^^ Like with all programs. You need to study it before you can properly use it. This is a good video, I learned about more animation programs today.^^

[@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

[@vonyoki2679]

GREAT VIDEO, thank u sm for making it, I learned stuff woo hoo

[@sakori12]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@kattimate]

I avoid blender, couldn't make a doughnut, couldn't make a cup that fans out slightly and I think I burned up my brain just looking at it. I'm using csp for still animation at the moment but hadn't explored it much. I did enjoy using adobe animate as I figured it out at somewhat a good pace as a beginner and made... bad beginner animation. Although I did not mind paying for it, the problem was when you want to cancel. I had to pay to cancel... I want to find a good program that is easy (as in not blender) and wont rip me off, but also have all the tools I need. I'm still hoping to find the right one, csp is too tempting to keep using 3d models instead of learning how to draw better x.x. I'm glad to come across your video and ranked them to usability and accessibility.

[@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

[@raccoon2276]

this feels like a multi-million subscriber channel type content, i luv your vids and hope you reach among the top creators of this genre of art video essays. good luck!

[@Jazztache]

I recon by default, if the software is libre than you should always start with that first, as it will likely save you a lot of money and hassle later down the line. Any missing functionality can be done with plugins. Krita and Blender are both free and open source software, and they both support plugins, making getting new features easy.

[@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

[@tendollah156]

interesting review but you missed the one software that in my humble opinion beats them all..... Moho! Some may laugh but this program can do so much more than animating characters with smart bones. Even harmony took inspiration from mohos unique features, except moho is easier to learn. It may not have the fancy composite effects but this is 2D animation we are talking about. Drawing in vector can be a bit tedious and the timeline can look bit overwhelming at first, but you can do some advanced stuff with just some drawn shapes and animating every single vector point with the magnet tool as if sculpting. But the software also allows frame by frame if you fancy taking months animating like that... You can easy render the vector animation into sharp convincing pixel art. You dont need any complex nodes to deform and animate bitmap images with custom drawn or generated mesh. That's two layers compared to a complex network of nodes! Best of all, there is a nice community who made easy to install scripts for more tools that make the animation experience even better and the software is for a reasonable one time per version price. I dare to say, I dropped Harmony for this software 👌

[@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.

[@nestor-162]

Que buen nombre que tiene este canal!

[@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

[@WafflesX3XD]

i am a fool of an animation student, doing my keys+rough inbetweens in procreate then exporting into a questionable copy of 2018 animate for clean-up lmao. it is not an efficient system, and i’ll be keeping this video in mind moving forward. very informative ;-)

[@2teepeepictures382]

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

[@heitorsant1759]

Finally, THANK YOU, now i don't need to use Scratch for animating

[@MagicalPi]

The best animation software guide I've seen on YT 👍

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@inxendere]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@timrobins98]

I feel like you were kinda harsh on Blender (coming from a 3d artist, though I think I make some good points if you're willing to get through my short essay). Alot of points were valid, but ranking stability below Adobe animate is unfair, especially since there are Blender builds like the Goo Engine specifically made to be more stable for animation (not to mention the added features). In my opinion, Blender should have gotten an A+ or S rank in ease of access for being the only free option in the bunch. I guess your ease of use rating makes sense if you are coming at it from the perspective of someone who hasn't heard of google, but the documentation for Grease Pencil is very well written, and with the community being so large there are plenty of tutorials online to point you in the right direction. Plus, you completely neglected to mention Blender addons, many of which can simplify the UI/UX for 2d users and things like brushes and visible waveforms in the timeline, (this section is more for people wanting to use 3d with 2d) not to mention the potential for using accurate lighting with mixed media, using a 3d character with faces and outlines applied over top. It allows you to completely reorganize your workflow, allowing you to set colors early and iterate on scenes very quickly. And you can automate things like outlines and give them automated rippling to make them feel hand drawn, plus if you're willing to step more into the realm of 3d, hand drawn faces can be used as textures on a 3d model, allowing for the use of auto lipsyncing solutions, such as rhubarb lipsync, with predrawn visemes to take a lot of busy work out of lipsyncing. This doesn't make lipsyncing free, you'll still have to make adjustments and add any unique expressions in by hand, but for beginners it is a great way to focus on things like character animations without having to spend a lot of time drawing faces to make the animation feel complete. There is also the benefit or allowing users to bring in and stylize models to use in backgrounds, or create hardsurface models for vehicles and other objects that should maintain proportions through perspective as seen in OtaKing Animations "How to Animate an 80s Anime Ship" (he uses Cinema 4d but as the video is rather old, Blender's internal tools for toon shading have become robust enough that everything could be done in the app, especially with Goo Engine)(I'd also be curious to hear your opinion on TVPaint, though its feature set seems pretty comparable to other editors for the $300 pricetag, though not sure if others have FX capabilities like glow). Check out some of the videos from Worthikids, makers of BigTop Burger, or the Grease Pencil Blender talks from La Cuisine/the add ons list that Flavio Perez created from La Cuisine. I think for all of the reasons above, Blender deserved a higher ranking than C, though as I am not a 2d animator I would be interested to hear your perspective on Blender after at least looking into the La Cuisine add on list, and maybe Goo Engine (though this is more for making 3d stylized to look 2d, so i understand if you give it a pass). Keep up the great work, your production quality is crazy good for a 300 subscriber channel, can't wait to see where you go in the future :)

[@elhombrechorizo]

I think blender is AMAZING software, especially since its free. Nothing got an A+ or S because that didnt exist on my scale (a final rank S tier software would be an A on all fronts ,ease of access etc, meaning its perfect). While everything youre saying is awesome, you have to find all that out on your own. Im coming at this from the perspective of someone starting out. If you bash your skull against any wall long enough you will make a hole for you to walk through. Think about it like this: why do I have to get all these add ons? Why do I have to do all this extra work and research to make this software awesome? Why cant it all just be there off top when I turn it on? Does that make sense? I LOVE blender, but you listing out all the things you have to find, dl, research to me kind of supports my final ranking of it being extremely tedious and having to do a lot of work before the software can just work. As I said in the video, if you bash your skull hard enough with blender, there is a gorgeous piece of equipment. But even getting there is a pain in the ass because of how many walls there are. The softwares I ranked higher just work once you turn them on, theres not much extra work to make them great. A C isnt bad imo

[@timrobins98]

@@elhombrechorizo I guess I understand, I think a difficulty curve might have been better to represent ease of use, but I understand sticking to level grades. I guess I disagree with your take on how software should be, primarily from a learning perspective. I’m guessing you’re coming at this from the perspective of a good animator, but with the same logic if you put a piece of paper in front of someone and asked them to animate with no knowledge of the principles of animation, it would take them way longer than if you gave them a book first. You are in university, but why are you learning if you can smash your head against the wall until it works. I guess I’m just not a fan of CTE, and ignoring the documentation each software provides when talking about ease of use, and how easy it is to find, would have made sense to me. Additionally, you mention things like brushes for other software, and I don’t see much of a difference between that and addons, unless you only talk about brushes included in the software. Though being this divisive with what can and can’t be included isn’t productive for the video, as we could also say that you wouldn’t be able to produce a full color animation with a paper and pencil. Plus, with Blender being free and many add ons being free, I’m more keen to be in favor of it, particularly when recommending beginners a software to learn. Hence the difficulty curve earlier, it’s intimidating for sure, but if you have an hour to research you can pretty quickly setup a much more user friendly workspace to animate in. Just some thoughts, thank you for the response. Like I said keep up the great work (and still interested if you’ve heard of/used tvpaint)

[@robnew]

I've only ever had blender crash if I use a modifier on a mesh I 100% knew it would just die on. Even when it crashes the autosaves are so frwquent I never lose more than 2 minutes of work... 9/10

[@rubenpereira2556]

I hate the cps ui, i really don't know if it's just me because i don't see many people complaining about it, but for me it's horrible. One software that is missing for animation is krita, which is a direct competitor and from what I saw in the video is better for animation (I don't really know if it's better, it just looks like it from what I saw). Blender honestly I think it should be in the B range, it has a huge learning curve, but as you said it has literally everything, as for crashes I've had like 3 this year, but I don't use it that intensively but you don't need to use the latest version either, you can use the lts.

[@shamcam3721]

This is amazing

[@elhombrechorizo]

I really appreciate that! Im glad you liked it!

[@miz_]

give this man the subs he deserves

[@Tehedes]

Very good video. I think you should test Moho. Its a powerfull software with great rigging options. Also its easy to use and much cheaper then Harmony or AN.

[@justchillin1087]

1.7k SUBSCRIBERS ONLY???! Sooo underrated, subscribe to this man at all costs

[@CallumsArmy]

this, is a good video indeed, thank you El Hombre Chorizo

[@elhombrechorizo]

Anything for you lord callums

[@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 ❤