This is so cool! I was actually wondering what the process of your animating is when it came to your recent animation of Amos? What program did you use to animate it?

Well ... I kind of explained why I was not and how I did this very animation. Oh well. Not a sin to recall.
I did animation on Paint with clean hands. And I animated on the Gif manufacturing site. And that's why I have been gone for so long.
But there are options that are faster but not cheap and not easy.
You can buy "Aseprite" for 15 bucks or build it at Microsoft Visual Studio and build it for free (if you are a programmer and disassemble in the assembly).
However, this option did not work out for me. And besides, for me it’s not cheap.

Okay cool! I'll have to look into those methods you mentioned for when I decided to try out 2d animation for gifs. Would you say the method you used was difficult to learn? Also, did you learn the techniques from online tutorials or through your own knowledge you had prior to animating this gif? Sorry for the loads of questions, I'm just really fascinated 😄

Purely from my own knowledge.

Awesome! Are you self taught or did you go to an art school for training?

In art school I went to. But I was not there for long. Where 3 years. And the only thing I did at this school was writing still lifes. No, of course there were other lessons, but they ended quickly. But, I began to paint more beautifully than before. However, I missed the anatomy. Which is very sad. But I don’t really grieve. In general, I will work with anatomy more often.

That's awesome! I can tell you had art training ^_^. I'm currently working on my masters degree for character concept design. Learning anatomy is extremely important; as is doing life sketches of people you see around you. Here, this book is such a great resource for anatomy. It's a very famous book a lot of professional artist recommend: https://illustrationage.files.wordp.....-its-worth.pdf

Wow. That's so unexpected. Thank you so much. ^ш^ I will definitely read it. By the way, you mentioned that you are working on your master's degree in character concept design. Can I find out how the procedure goes?

No problem man ^_^. I hope the book proves to be helpful. Well, I'm enrolled in the online version of Academy of Art University which is in California. I'm on the opposite side of the US so that's why I'm taking my courses online. It's basically the same experience as a general art school except online. I study various areas of art that relate to drawing and concepting characters. So for example, learning anatomy, learning perspective, learning sketching techniques, and digital painting. That's what I've done so far for my degree. My degree is for character concept design for video games so I'll ultimately make a portfolio of character design sheets to show off to game design studios that I can design characters. At least that's my hope from doing all this lol.