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LazyAnimation

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Hello fellow animators and everyone else!

I'm always curious about how other animators create their art. Do you go for a more traditional approach? Are you heavily dependent on animation software (flash, toonboom, etc.)?

I draw everything in pencil or photoshop and color it in photoshop. Then I bring my finished art into iMovie and slowly create my scenes. Timing is everything so I focus a lot on lip-synching, background sound effects/music, and scene change.
 
Using animation software is a big time saver. Most people will be dependent on some kind of software. You might want to take a look into Anime Studio. I'm not 100% positive but I think it has an automatic lip sync feature. It will save a ton of time over trying to do this manually.
 
Everyone is dependent on some form of software these days. I tried Anime Studio a while ago and hate the interface. The lip sync feature is ok, but I really don't need it. Years ago when I was studying at my alma mater, I used adobe after effects for animation. As a professional artist, I find that I do enjoy working the semi-traditional way for the most part. It also helps that I work fast.

Not asking for advice. I'm just curious to see how other animators work.
 
definitely use flash for everything now, but i animate in a 'traditional' way, mostly frame by frame , redraw, redraw. I admire your ability to do it with pencil and paper though, I found that really hard when I don't have good old Control + Z haha
 
I do the same. Frame by frame and I mostly create and edit the artwork in adobe photoshop. I draw on paper to get the initial linework down. I've seen great animations come out of using flash (including yours). Keep up the great work. Thanks for sharing!
 
YES! Rare wild animators appear. Lol.

As of right now I do my keyframes on paper, scan them in, and in-between and ink them on PC with Flash. I then export them out as PNG sequences into AfterEffects. SFX and voices are edited and recorded in Adobe Audition.

Before YouTube (and poverty) it used to be when I had access to a bulk scanner and endless amounts of animation paper I did literally everything on my light table before inking and coloring in Flash (and ToonBoom and Photoshop on some occasions). I've always been a frame-by-frame person vs. the puppet rigs. I honestly found the puppets a lot more complicated to set up than me deciding what poses I wanted with separate drawings, heh.
 
Woohoo! More animators! :)

@Cromartie I need to try Flash. I have a light box, but it's not the same as the light tables that were available at my alma mater. Same here! I find it more difficult to rig my characters than to just animate them frame by frame. It's very time consuming and I don't have the time to spare. lol

@CaptainRomulus Seems like it! I miss After Effects. :(

Anyone using Adobe CC? What are your thoughts on it? I was hoping to buy a physical copy of the Mac version of CS5, but they don't sell it anymore.

What tablets are you all using? I have an Intuos 5. Would like to get a Cintiq.
 
Intuos 3 right here. Bought it refurbished during college and still working five years later. ;) I wish I could afford a Cintiq, I loved drawing directly on the screen in class.
 
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