r/Animators

hello r/animation! i’m an animator and new to reddit. i’ve also never directed or led a group before/paid any animators- please bare with me.

i came to ask if any high skilled animator would be up for freelance work part time for me and my channel. i make animations and wish to grow in the future, im alone now but i’ve recently just started working and was saving enough to pay animators for their work on my videos.

my skills are low to mid, and i can animate almost 15 minutes on my own, so i only need someone i can count on to animate the highlights near/at the end of the video. i can’t pay weekly, but for every video we upload- its 100$ USD- and 50$ USD per 15s-

please dm me for more details, please note im looking for highly skilled artist only. once you’re hired it’s an upfront payment of 100$ USD as i’ve already posted the trailers for the project on youtube.

thank you for your time!

so im a beginner 2D animator, and im thinking about buying a wacom tablet, but im not sure on whether a non display one (such as the intuos) or a regular display one (such as the cintiq) would be better, im mainly think about this cuz im used to doing physical art, so although, personally, i think i would prefer the intuos over the cintiq, but i feel like the cintiq would be more comfortable to use. so im not sure on which on is actually better. (also im on a bit of a budget)

Suppose you are charging a particular animation style for around 800-1200$/min of content. Lets say that is standard or bare minimum for a music video or a short animated or a series.
How can you do the same, when the client wants it for reel and social media purpose only, and their budget is not more than 100$/ video of lets say 20-40sec of similar animated content.
Help me out here, I've no clue how to manage that huge price gap and accept such a project, even though the frequency of such project in todays time is quite high.

I'm using flipaclip as it's the only app I know of that's both free and allows adding audio. I've done a couple animations so far, mostly on ibispaintx and a couple tweens using alight motion, but I'd like some tips on improving. What should my sketches look like? What types of things should I try animating? My main goal for improving is so that I can join in on animation memes like I'd always wanted to as a kid, as well as animating silly short vids of my characters and me and my friends fursonas. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated!

I'm feeling good because I've picked up 2 animators to help me make this but I'm still looking for more. But I'm liking my chances of getting this thing made!

Anyway, enjoy Yuna on another unsuccessful attempt.

PS. If you'd like to join my team, shoot me a DM!

Hi guys! Regarding the Avatar animated movie being leaked before its release many people are saying if you watch it you are disrespecting the animators and it’s selfish but I wanted to add some nuance to this and hear it from the opinions of animators pretending it was their work. Let’s say you worked so hard on a movie and it wasn’t going to come out in theatres anymore but it’s finished and it’s going to stream. Someone leaked it online the whole thing with good quality and everything and many people start watching it and others don’t want to because they are respecting the animators. I understand as an animator you might be upset but say if someone was going to commit suicide that day and an old fried reached out to them who he hasn’t spoken too in a while that an AVATAR movie was leaked a franchise they loved as kids and he invited him to come watch it at his place and make plans despite being years of them not talking and they watch the leak and have a great time and it brought a lot of much needed happiness to the individual who was very depressed. As an animator would you still be pissed they watched it? I feel like as animators you guys want to bring joy to the world with animation and make people smile and I’m not saying you can’t feel bad or upset at people who watched your leak movie but if you already got paid and finished the project and the movie got leaked and it’s bringing a lot of people together and giving them a great time and they love it and they have family time is that not something that would still put a smile on your face? Sure they can be a little selfish for still watching the leak but I wouldn’t go ahead and say that only bad things have come from that right? Albeit if the animators weren’t going to be paid anymore because the movie got leaked that’s a different story and in that case I would hope people would want the animators to be paid so I think people think that animators have already gotten paid.

This is just scenarios for some fun nuance thinking so I’m curious to see any opinions!

Hello,
I have a fairly simple animation task that can probably be done easily with AI. I have already created part of it, which can be seen below, but the animation needs to be longer.

It should be 5 minutes long, but much of it can just be looped.
The man should walk down the street, passing the different elements already shown in the image. He should walk in a relaxed and calm manner, like in the video. This part should simply loop. The word "Street" should always remain fixed at the top.

At the end of the animation, he should walk into a house, sit down at his PC, put on headphones, and start playing on the computer, as shown in the other image.

It will be used as an intro for livestreaming, so I will add music myself, etc. I only need the animation.

So perhaps 4 minutes and 40 seconds of looping where he walks on the street, and then 20 seconds where he goes into the house and sits at the PC.

I have a very low budget, so please only contact me if you can do it for around $50. Otherwise, I will continue working on it myself using AI.

Please write your price for this task.

https://preview.redd.it/bzwcccy7p5wg1.png?width=1672&format=png&auto=webp&s=3071dbb610e1487c182ad76dbc9b07c377de7610

https://preview.redd.it/vgyoayw7p5wg1.png?width=1134&format=png&auto=webp&s=2aac779844d4039e26ae00708ce4a995558b2d94

https://reddit.com/link/1spub3x/video/rg35we88p5wg1/player

Hey guys! So ive been having difficulty trying to find good animation programs. I used to animate using CapCut back then with my phone, but now that I have a laptop, ive been trying to find this program where you can animate characters on existing videos or images you lay out in the canvas.

Are there any programs that could do this? What I mean by this is, instead of having to animate the whole thing from the characters to the background, you only need to animate the characters since you already have an existing video you can use as the background, hope anyone gets this since Im confused as well.

I have a funny video that I think would be really funny if animated. Hmu

A short animated documentary about how Norm Macdonald approached stand-up comedy which he learned from Sam Kinison. The film provides a rare glimpse into the artform of Stand-up.

Directed by Aron Fromm, producer of smiling friends.

I ran out of room, so I'm typing this here.

You're probably not gonna start animating til later on this month or in May or June.