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A GameJolt community entirelly focused on the animation medium!

Read the description before posting. There's also resources in the description that could be useful.

Table of contents

• Where to post

• Rules

• Resources

• Where to learn

Where to post

• General

  Discuss anything related to animation. Can be animation history, animation news, questions... anything.

• Concept Art

  Got some concept art from your animation projects? Share them here! Can be also other art.

• 2D Animation

  Place to share your 2D digital animations.

• 3D Animation

  Place to share your 3D animations.

• Pixel Animation

  Animations done in real pixels.

  (Sprite animations with tweenings and etc also go here.)

• Traditional Animation

  Place to share your animations made traditionally (on paper, flipnote... etc)

• Stopmotion

  Place to share your stopmotion animation. Can be claymation, puppet animation, LEGO... etc.

  You can also share here your animation puppets and sets.

• Mixed media

  If your animation contains more than two different mediums.

  (A very popular example of a mixed media animation is "The Amazing World of Gumball" for having 2D, 3D, stopmotion and real footage for their characters and environments.)

Rules

The website guidelines apply.

• Do not post AI or NSFW stuff

  For obvious reasons.

• Post in the correct channel

  Posting your animation in the incorrect category will only have your post moved to the correct one, this is just to keep the mediums organized.

  If you have doubts, check above on "Where to post"

• The works you share must be yours (unless its a discussion in general)

  While general is meant to discuss anything related to animation, the animations you post in the rest of the channels must be YOURS, if it's a collaboration then credit the people who worked on it too.

Not a rule, but it's encouraged to tell what program you used to make your animation! (Unless it's stopmotion)

Resources

There are many ways to animate, using a program or none at all.

2D Programs

• Toon Boom Harmony | PAID

  Bitmap/vector, industry standard.

• Adobe Animate | PAID

  Mainly vector, supports action script and web, industry standard.

• Procreate Dreams | PAID

  Bitmap only, lacks some features but it's good for small animations.

• ToonSquid | PAID

  Vector animation.

• FlipaClip | Freemium

  Bitmap, decent if you're starting out.

• Scratch | WEB FREE

  (Yes, seriously.)

  Bitmap and vector, easy block coding.

3D Programs

• Blender | FREE

  You also have the option to do 2.5D animation with the grease pencil feature.

• Maya | PAID

• Cinema 4D | PAID

If you know any more good animation programs, share it in general to be added to the list!

Stopmotion

Stopmotion is done with physical objects (puppets, paper cut-outs, clay...), you capture each frame with a camera.

There's programs that are great assists when doing stopmotion.

• Dragonframe | PAID

Where to learn

There's many options to learning animation. Many tutorials are avaliable on YouTube completelly for free (unless they sponsor some paid course, I guess).

Every animator should watch this one at least. Very important.

You can also resort to learning it through books. A very good one is Richard Williams's "The Animator's Survival Kit". I myself bought it (the expanded edition one).

If you really want to lean into animation as a career choice, you can go to an university that has an animation course.
You DON'T NEED a degree to pursue animation, but it's a good excuse if you want to delay employment!!! /hj

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