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a year ago
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This might be a long shot in the dark, but is anyone aware of some good affordable 2D animation software? Like, at least one? Ideally one-time buy and not subscription based? And also preferably animation first, not drawing first with animating tools tacked on later (ie. not Krita)?
Right now, the 2 programs I use are Clip Studio Paint (tacked on) and Aseprite (mostly great).
CSP is pretty good at the drawing part, but man I never enjoy animating in that one. Too much frame assigning and not enough flexibility.
Aseprite is awesome! Everything about what is there is great and all the features it got are bonkers! It's also very cheap and one time buy! But it can only handle pixel art and can't import any audio, since it's mainly there to help make art assets for games with pixel graphics. A lot of the coolest features are designed to help with that process (them tiles). I would animate in Aseprite and polish in CSP, but CSP can't import animated gifs. So, again, importing and assigning every png to every frame is a pretty huge pain (That Lemurian lady sucking dick is where I tested that and yeah).
For years I've been hoping for some good option in 2D animating and have yet to hear about anything great (there's a, apparently, great 2D animating software that is cheap stuck on the Apple Appstore, I'm not getting into that ecosystem/it's too expensive). I just find it bonkers how you can technically make a full 3D game with audio and assets and music and all that for cheap and/or free, but somehow 2D animation has been a weird blind spot. I almost should just learn 3D and animate in 3D with Blender at this point. No idea if I'd find it fun though... Which does remind me I should check out what their 2D animating tools are like, but a friend says it's not great cause of the way the pen is handle. But man, I'm getting a little desperate.
I just spent this evening animating a thing in CSP and I just spent half that time just assigning frames and I just kind of gave up. I have the entire character shaking her butt to the music, but all one color and unpolished lines cause I just got really tired at the tediousness of it. And I dunno, as I said, I'm just getting desperate I guess. If I could have something that works like Aseprite, but that let's me draw at regular resolution. Also CSP's animation preview is so bad!!! I forgot about that one UGH. Yeah I dunno. What is even happening anymore. I don't even have a spot to post lewd furries with audio cause I squint at all the options I know of.
But yeah, all this rambling is mostly to ask if there's options I missed, I feel like I used to keep track of things, but social media mix up resulted in me not really knowing what people have been talking about in the last half a decade. So maybe something else popped up? Hopefully that runs on a computer instead of an iPhone? Maybe please? =(
This might be a long shot in the dark, but is anyone aware of some good affordable 2D animation software? Like, at least one? Ideally one-time buy and not subscription based? And also preferably animation first, not drawing first with animating tools tacked on later (ie. not Krita)?
Right now, the 2 programs I use are Clip Studio Paint (tacked on) and Aseprite (mostly great).
CSP is pretty good at the drawing part, but man I never enjoy animating in that one. Too much frame assigning and not enough flexibility.
Aseprite is awesome! Everything about what is there is great and all the features it got are bonkers! It's also very cheap and one time buy! But it can only handle pixel art and can't import any audio, since it's mainly there to help make art assets for games with pixel graphics. A lot of the coolest features are designed to help with that process (them tiles). I would animate in Aseprite and polish in CSP, but CSP can't import animated gifs. So, again, importing and assigning every png to every frame is a pretty huge pain (That Lemurian lady sucking dick is where I tested that and yeah).
For years I've been hoping for some good option in 2D animating and have yet to hear about anything great (there's a, apparently, great 2D animating software that is cheap stuck on the Apple Appstore, I'm not getting into that ecosystem/it's too expensive). I just find it bonkers how you can technically make a full 3D game with audio and assets and music and all that for cheap and/or free, but somehow 2D animation has been a weird blind spot. I almost should just learn 3D and animate in 3D with Blender at this point. No idea if I'd find it fun though... Which does remind me I should check out what their 2D animating tools are like, but a friend says it's not great cause of the way the pen is handle. But man, I'm getting a little desperate.
I just spent this evening animating a thing in CSP and I just spent half that time just assigning frames and I just kind of gave up. I have the entire character shaking her butt to the music, but all one color and unpolished lines cause I just got really tired at the tediousness of it. And I dunno, as I said, I'm just getting desperate I guess. If I could have something that works like Aseprite, but that let's me draw at regular resolution. Also CSP's animation preview is so bad!!! I forgot about that one UGH. Yeah I dunno. What is even happening anymore. I don't even have a spot to post lewd furries with audio cause I squint at all the options I know of.
But yeah, all this rambling is mostly to ask if there's options I missed, I feel like I used to keep track of things, but social media mix up resulted in me not really knowing what people have been talking about in the last half a decade. So maybe something else popped up? Hopefully that runs on a computer instead of an iPhone? Maybe please? =(
I have heard of people using it to make 2D animations, and i myself also use it sometimes to produce "fake 2D" pixel animations.
I definitely feel the same about CSP, animation wise.
And I basically build my animations layer by layer. Didn't have to use any external site to make the gif.
here's some examples. https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....259/Animations
https://opentoonz.github.io/e/
https://krita.org/en/
I was spoiled by Flash from back in the day, keyframe animations were so fast and easy to make : (
I still could try to give Krita a shot, but I heard it's timeline works like CSP. If it is, then yeah I might not be as into it. But if you say you got spoiled by Flash and like Krita, I dunno maybe I either got bad info and need to stop being lazy, or they updated it at some point. Thanks for the response!
All I can say is almost each time I'd give OpenToonz a longer break, I have to almost re-learn it to remember the workflow. Krita is more chill in that respect. Neither is a great solution IMO, when compared to how Flash used to do it.