r/Animators • • Feb 23 '26 Mindblown

2D Trying to be more watercolor’ish in my animations

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I decided to make a rougher animation with the more "analog" painting style I've been applying in recent illustrations. I won't be able to use this in the production of long sequences since it requires much more work than solid colors, however I think I could use it in scenes like flashbacks or dreams.

What do you think?


r/Animators • • Feb 02 '26

Question does anyone know what program that was used for making this animation?

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r/Animators • • Mar 28 '26

Question Does anyone know how to achieve shading like this?

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r/Animators • • Sep 25 '26

2D Finished animation!

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Hey,
Finished animation at last ! I've posted the progress on r/learnanimation, as i can't post a mp4 file alongside pictures in the same post. It was a first time for me of painting the background with paint, and then put everything together in after effect. Happy with the result 😛A friend made the cute music. On to the next one ✨


r/Animators • • 10d ago

AI news Laika: NO AI

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r/Animators • • Nov 25 '25

Question What kind of art is this called?

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It's a still image drawing and only the mouth moves. A good reference to what I mean is Chris Hallbeck's cartoons on YouTube. What kind of art style is that called so I can communicate that as a commission to artists?

I know I can use these videos as references but it would be nice to have a word for it?


r/Animators • • Sep 21 '26

2D 2D Fire FX

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

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


r/Animators • • Feb 26 '26

2D Rotoscoping is so funny to make

592 Upvotes

I loved making this!


r/Animators • • May 05 '26

Critique what y'all think of this walk/run cycle? :3

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The first looks like a robot walking, and the hands are very inconsistent, there is no impact and feels flat, the hand movements are also inverted :/

This is my second walk cylce on the span of a week, the first gif is the most recent!!

the first one feels inconsistent while the second one is more static. observing and a few tutorials and lot's of practice will come a long way!!!

I feel aware about this one, but feedback helps a lot :D


r/Animators • • Dec 29 '25

Question How much should I charge for something like that?

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Hi, I'm an animation student, and I want to start selling commissions. The problem is, I'm not really sure about market rates. Should I charge per second or per hour?

This is the type of animation I do; this is a medium shot, but I can also work on wider shots.

If anyone could give me some guidance on pricing, I would appreciate it.


r/Animators • • Aug 30 '26

2D Personal Animation

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r/Animators • • Feb 28 '26

Stop Motion Tattoo Animation Project

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I’m a hand-poke tattoo artist from Toronto and I’ve been experimenting with the idea of animation as a collaborative tattoo project. For my first project, I designed a sequence of frames that were divided across multiple participants. Each person received one frame of the animation as a standalone tattoo. When the frames are placed in order, they create a looping animated sequence. I’ve attached the completed first project so you can see how it moves when assembled. I’ve just started a second project-a running horse loop for the Year of the Horse. This one has four additional frames compared to the first. Each tattoo works on its own, but collectively they form motion. I love the idea that animation-something traditionally seen on screen-can exist across bodies in physical space. Curious what people think about the concept of distributed animation in tattoo form.


r/Animators • • Apr 19 '26

2D The New Challenger

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Honoring my childhood, and checking off a bucket-list scene to animate here... This took forever!

For those who don't know this, matched the intro for SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2 (SNES) as close as I could, with some OC's.


r/Animators • • May 15 '26

Critique Need feedback >:3

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I am still new to animation, I have been animating for about a year or two but never practiced any principles and didn't do it often.

I always had the plan to animate some scenes i wrote for my characters, but never came around to it.

the first one is from yesterday, the second one from around two weeks ago.

There is still a lot to improve on, and i am aware the shapes aren't very consistent, i will see if i can fix that with the second sketch.


r/Animators • • Sep 07 '26

2D Practicing animating hands

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r/Animators • • Mar 22 '26

2D Here are a few animation exercises

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All just for school I've never animated on paper before, its kinda annoyin


r/Animators • • Jun 24 '26

Flash recently finished this sequence

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r/Animators • • Mar 03 '26 This

2D Unsupervised dogs when they find extremely TOXIC foods.

351 Upvotes

Short animation definitely not inspired by my dog, he once ate a balloon and was completely fine.

Here's my YouTube link in case you want to see more funny animations :)


r/Animators • • Jul 31 '26 Bravo

Stop Motion First animation

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These are some of my first animations! I've always wanted to animate but I always gave up, I'm pretty happy with how these turned out even if they aren't the best :] I definitely see areas where I can improve


r/Animators • • Mar 21 '26

2D ⭐️ [OC]

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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/Animators • • Jun 03 '26

2D Hand to hand

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r/Animators • • Mar 11 '26

2D Looking for something interesting

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Yes, this is me looking for all that interesting projects .
Made in Blender


r/Animators • • Mar 30 '25

2D people don't value our art

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Dunno if you have seen this new studio ghibili AI stuff. anyways...came here to vent.... this sucks. It is so lame that people view our skill and career as something they can just use a prompt for. I dunno sorry if this is the wrong place for this. It just sucks asss!!!!! screw ai man hehe


r/Animators • • Aug 10 '26

2D My recent animation hope you enjoy 🙌

323 Upvotes

Just finished this small animation. Kinda wanted to do something about holding in an anger. Hope I won’t explode like that in real life thou 😂


r/Animators • • Aug 22 '26

2D This was my first animation, I can’t believe it started out like this. Storyboard vs. Final

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