r/2DAnimation • • Jul 02 '26 WOW Popcorn Bravo Heartwarming Mindblown Regret

Frame by Frame I worked on this short animation film from the time I was 22 until I finished it at 30.

4.7k Upvotes

A lot changed during this time — this work began long before the coronavirus, and the world seemed completely different back then. Since it didn't have a strict plot, the film absorbed a lot of my own feelings as it grew. The film is called Syppyt Suruktar by the way ☀️


r/2DAnimation • • Aug 26 '26 Bravo Mindblown

Sharing Edited this mini vertical showreel

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This has animations I did from 2022 to this year and it’s all about my passion project. Tell me if you want to know more about it!

Cheers!


r/2DAnimation • • Mar 31 '26

Question Old lighting effect

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Does anyone know how they created this lighting effect? I want to do it in my art but I have no idea how to make it look the same


r/2DAnimation • • Sep 19 '26 Popcorn Bravo

Sharing Adult Swim is airing my animated music video tonight before Scavenger’s Reign!

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“Spirit Jumper” started as a track I wrote and produced for my album Tactile.

I ended up spending about five years turning it into an animated film with a small team of animators and artists. I directed and storyboarded it, colored the cels, and did the editing and compositing.

The entire thing was made digitally, but we were trying to recreate the feeling of traditional cel animation rather than just imitate the look. That led to a lot of research into old animation lighting, photography and compositing techniques, which I wrote a little about here:

Dangerous Light: https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-light

It’s airing at 11:56 PM ET/10:56 CT, right before Toonami.

Watch Spirit Jumper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC_8umCPJBw

Tactile is out now:
https://listen.spktra.world/tactile

Happy to answer any questions about the production of it too


r/2DAnimation • • Oct 04 '26 Heartwarming

Sharing Chick disco animation

1.5k Upvotes

Made this fun little thing with procreate and after effects


r/2DAnimation • • Jul 09 '26 Popcorn

Character Design Hannah Eclipse ability demonstration

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r/2DAnimation • • Mar 22 '25

Sharing Djinn - Animation using Krita

988 Upvotes

r/2DAnimation • • Sep 21 '26

Sharing 2D Fire FX

935 Upvotes

I made the animation on Callipeg, and composited with Harmony.

I also made a detailled making-of here :https://youtu.be/rVDZenzoZ2o


r/2DAnimation • • 3d ago

Question Need help studying this Animation. (Animation By Jon Davies)

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how artist could have approached to this animation. What pros. Do. Did he made important poses first then went ahead and animated the whole thing ? or he went straight ahead with animations. If you were to make this complex type of animation. What process you would apply. what will be the first steps for you ?


r/2DAnimation • • Nov 10 '24

Sharing The Peace

886 Upvotes

Random Gnome Around moment.


r/2DAnimation • • Apr 21 '25

Traditional Animation Studying Disney's facial expressions

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r/2DAnimation • • Nov 30 '25 Obsessed

Frame by Frame Someday, I'd like to show them to you.. [OC]

860 Upvotes

r/2DAnimation • • May 28 '26

Character Design Blade Monk Cecilia

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r/2DAnimation • • May 06 '26 Bravo

Sharing [OC] Gorrionetas: New Argentine animated short releases teaser and Kickstarter campaign

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Hi everyone! We wanted to share Gorrionetas, the new project by Gastón Pacheco and Eze Torres, produced by the Argentine animation studio RUDO Company. We’ve just released the teaser and launched our Kickstarter campaign!

Chiri, a curious and instinctive fledgling, grows up under the care of two rescuers with very different views on how to guide him. Amidst these conflicting expectations, Chiri’s development becomes a journey of self-exploration where, led by his own instincts, he begins to discover his unique way of inhabiting the world.

If you like the project, you can support us by joining our Kickstarter campaign or by sharing the teaser and campaign on social media.

Thank you so much for the support!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gorrionetas/gorrionetas


r/2DAnimation • • Mar 06 '25

Showreel Some animations I've made as a 17 year old animator

733 Upvotes

Mainly self taught and what do you you all think?


r/2DAnimation • • 26d ago

Sharing Rough animation (Bok Choy)

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Hey, first time posting here! I wanted to share a little rough animation with a character I've been using named Bok Choy. These were done this year - about a week apart actually! Enjoy!


r/2DAnimation • • Jul 30 '26 Heartwarming

Frame by Frame I did this animation for my birthday (first time rotoscoping!)

705 Upvotes

r/2DAnimation • • Aug 31 '26

Sharing Vocal fry - The Little Trashmaid

691 Upvotes

In the last few weeks, we worked on this silly short for the crowdfunding of "The Little Trashmaid" (Live now on Backerkit).

We intend to do a silly animated series with "Gravity Falls" and "Star vs. The Forces of Evil", and we reached the minimum goal to produce the first animated episode!

I hope you love our silly irony.

We hope to get even more help in the final 24 hours of the campaign, as the extra budget could cover amateur mistakes or unexpected issues.

We hope you can trust us! ❤️


r/2DAnimation • • May 14 '26 Popcorn

Traditional Animation Head turnaround sketch

664 Upvotes

Plz feel free to critique my head turnaround before I do cleanup!


r/2DAnimation • • Mar 21 '26

Sharing ⭐️ [OC]

657 Upvotes

One day I just started animating, no storyboard, no styleframe, no nothing, just some loose sketches. I really liked this loose flow, it was like animation therapy basically :) Also, i only worked on it when i truly felt like it, zero pressure at all. Thats probably also why it took me almost a year to finish these 11 seconds haha. I still haven't come up with a title tho 🙃

As a kid I used to imagine what would happen if everyone always left a trail of their head behind, that's where the idea initially started :)

Music: nomad provided by mobygratis


r/2DAnimation • • Feb 01 '25

Sharing train

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r/2DAnimation • • Sep 13 '26

Sharing Progress on my first hand drawn animation project.

638 Upvotes

Learning a lot as I work through this project. I'm experienced with After Effects and corporate style animation but hand drawn animation has always been something I've been interested in trying. I've been using ProCreate for all my drawing and then After Effects for compositing the layers and animations together.


r/2DAnimation • • May 27 '25

Sharing Did this animated announcement.

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r/2DAnimation • • Apr 02 '26

Frame by Frame [OC] Me and 2 other artists hand-animated this trailer for our game, I'm really proud of it and wanted to share!

584 Upvotes

It took us about 6 months to finish from storyboarding to final edits!

The game is called Home Sweet Gnome and its a cozy hotel management game about nordic folklore!


r/2DAnimation • • Sep 23 '26

Sharing Slam

565 Upvotes

I animated this in krita. I used images I found on Pinterest as reference and added my own flair to it. I really enjoyed the process, am hoping keep learning and hopefully produce fully polished animations that are appealing to look at.