how do people animate?

[Kruger1]

What tools do people actually use to animate.
I draw with Gimp. I've tried animating with it, but it is so clunky and unconventional. There has to be some easier ways. Just asking out of curiosity if anyone knows

 

[bethrezen0]

I'm not a 2D guy, but you can do 2D animation in blender, or so i heard. Other than that, there is Krita, Pencil2D and opentoonz(Has support for 2D skeletal animation) Probably a lot of more similar software, these just the ones i heard about. Krita being the most popular i believe.

Anyways, anything would be better that Gimp, that shit is a nightmare to work with.

 

[Kruger1]

yeah, I know gimp is kinda garbage, but I've grown accustomed to it.

 

[♍VoidTraveler]

What tools do people actually use to animate.

Pencil will do:

 

[Ass prefer]

I'm not a 2D guy,

U are, Boy-kisser

 

[Ashira13]

you could use adobe express? easy to use anyway. used that to create animations/videos a few years back.

 

[Kruger1]

Found out I got 2 year Clip studio pro with my wacom tablet. Things just got way easier. I managed to do an animation in one day with it. That would have taken like a week using gimps animating one frame at a time system

 

[metalblinga]

I'm an old-school guy, so my experience with 2D animation is with Adobe Animate (aka Adobe/Macromedia Flash)
It supports all kinds of animation styles like frame-by-frame and cut-out (Especially useful for 2.5D).
It even has a lot of tools you can use natively to create the art for your animations.

Another option I've seen some people use is creating animation frames in Photoshop and then importing them to AA.
The benefit of this option is being able to create much nicer 2D art for your animations.