Last year I started to play around with some simple 2D animation. With Inkscape Layers, it was relatively easy to create animation frames. Inkscape also gives you the ability to move a pivot point for rotating an object. This was perfect for making small moves for the animation frames. At first, I tried using Krita for creating the animation frames/files. But, it just had too much and was too big. (If you have a drawing tablet, it might be worth trying. I don't have a tablet.) Then, I found Pencil2D. It was perfect for what I was trying to accomplish.
I should add that I also tried learning Blender for some 3D animation. It was really cool. If you are interested, I highly recommend the Blender Guru's donut tutorial series on YouTube. It will get you started. Blender is really powerful. But, 3D is a whole new world compared to 2D.
All the applications I mentioned are free and have portable versions. I use public library PCs and work off of flash drives. I also use Paint.Net for a few things.
So, here is one of my animations. Everything except the clouds was done in Inkscape. I used Paint.Net for the clouds.
Very cool! I was never able to animate in Inkscape: what I did was assemble the character on it and export it in separate parts to Synfig. In a course I took, the teacher provided the character file in Inkscape...and I had to export it to Blender. Krita is also good, but for large animations, with lots of frames, I don't think it's suitable.
Blender Guru's Donut Tutorial! 😊😊 It was hard to do...but I did it! I also did the one for flag's animation (this one was shorter).
I looked into Synfig. I looked at a lot of animation apps. Pencil2D worked best for me. Krita just kept running out of memory when I tried to create an animation. But, the animation features were relatively new for that app. And, it has so many other features, it's no wonder it ran out of memory.
I never saw that flag animation. I watched a number of Andrew's videos. He is a good teacher.
If you have access to LinkedIn Learning, the Blender courses there are also very good. I watched them after Andrew's videos. I also found help on Reddit and Stack Exchange for Blender. Also, anything by Von Glitschka is really good in LinkedIn Learning. He has a number of Adobe Illustrator courses that can be applied to Inkscape. I learned a lot from him. I think I adjusted my basic approach to a project from watching a few of his videos.
Here is one of the few Blender animations of my own creation that I completed. It was an attempt to repeat the 2D sandpiper/bird in 3D. I worked very hard and restarted many times before finishing it. But, I learned a lot from trial and error on a project that was different from the tutorials I had completed
I just stopped working with Blender last year because 3D animation has so much more to think about than 2D. I may go back to it someday because it has so much to offer. And, I do look at websites like Blender Artists and Blender Nation.
I have Linkedin, but it's the free one. Von Glitschka? I even visited his site, a long time ago, he made some cool patterns.
Blender also supports 2D animation. There's the Grease Pencil, I've done a few experiments with it... none of them worked, unfortunately. There's a channel, Pleyland, that shows you how to build a character, this one.
Thanks. I will look at that Grease Pencil video. I think I experimented with 2D animation with Blender. I tried importing my Inkscape shapes into Planes into Blender. But, it wasn't worth all the effort. Using something like Pencil2D (or Synfig) was much, much easier. Maybe there is something Blender can do with 2D that is worth exploring.
Long before I tried Blender, I learned to use SketchUp. It was on our library computers for some reason. It is a free 3D modeling program. It is used by architects, engineers, garden planners, woodworkers and many others. It can't do organic shapes like Blender. But, if you want something more precise, it is definitely worth trying. It is a lot easier to learn than Blender. It used to be an application that you installed; but, now it is only online - which makes more sense. The free version is very powerful. You can export 2D files. I don't have any old work saved. But, you can get an idea from the website and from searching for SketchUp images/work. There are a lot of tutorials out there, too.
Share Finished Artwork 2D Animaton using Inkscape and Pencil2D
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Last year I started to play around with some simple 2D animation. With Inkscape Layers, it was relatively easy to create animation frames. Inkscape also gives you the ability to move a pivot point for rotating an object. This was perfect for making small moves for the animation frames. At first, I tried using Krita for creating the animation frames/files. But, it just had too much and was too big. (If you have a drawing tablet, it might be worth trying. I don't have a tablet.) Then, I found Pencil2D. It was perfect for what I was trying to accomplish.
I should add that I also tried learning Blender for some 3D animation. It was really cool. If you are interested, I highly recommend the Blender Guru's donut tutorial series on YouTube. It will get you started. Blender is really powerful. But, 3D is a whole new world compared to 2D.
All the applications I mentioned are free and have portable versions. I use public library PCs and work off of flash drives. I also use Paint.Net for a few things.
So, here is one of my animations. Everything except the clouds was done in Inkscape. I used Paint.Net for the clouds.
Wow! That's very nice.
Thanks.
Animation is a lot of work making the individual frames; but, the results make it all worth while.
Very cool! I was never able to animate in Inkscape: what I did was assemble the character on it and export it in separate parts to Synfig. In a course I took, the teacher provided the character file in Inkscape...and I had to export it to Blender. Krita is also good, but for large animations, with lots of frames, I don't think it's suitable.
Blender Guru's Donut Tutorial! 😊😊 It was hard to do...but I did it! I also did the one for flag's animation (this one was shorter).
I looked into Synfig. I looked at a lot of animation apps. Pencil2D worked best for me. Krita just kept running out of memory when I tried to create an animation. But, the animation features were relatively new for that app. And, it has so many other features, it's no wonder it ran out of memory.
I never saw that flag animation. I watched a number of Andrew's videos. He is a good teacher.
If you have access to LinkedIn Learning, the Blender courses there are also very good. I watched them after Andrew's videos. I also found help on Reddit and Stack Exchange for Blender. Also, anything by Von Glitschka is really good in LinkedIn Learning. He has a number of Adobe Illustrator courses that can be applied to Inkscape. I learned a lot from him. I think I adjusted my basic approach to a project from watching a few of his videos.
Here is one of the few Blender animations of my own creation that I completed. It was an attempt to repeat the 2D sandpiper/bird in 3D. I worked very hard and restarted many times before finishing it. But, I learned a lot from trial and error on a project that was different from the tutorials I had completed
I just stopped working with Blender last year because 3D animation has so much more to think about than 2D. I may go back to it someday because it has so much to offer. And, I do look at websites like Blender Artists and Blender Nation.
I have Linkedin, but it's the free one. Von Glitschka? I even visited his site, a long time ago, he made some cool patterns.
Blender also supports 2D animation. There's the Grease Pencil, I've done a few experiments with it... none of them worked, unfortunately. There's a channel, Pleyland, that shows you how to build a character, this one.
Thanks. I will look at that Grease Pencil video. I think I experimented with 2D animation with Blender. I tried importing my Inkscape shapes into Planes into Blender. But, it wasn't worth all the effort. Using something like Pencil2D (or Synfig) was much, much easier. Maybe there is something Blender can do with 2D that is worth exploring.
Long before I tried Blender, I learned to use SketchUp. It was on our library computers for some reason. It is a free 3D modeling program. It is used by architects, engineers, garden planners, woodworkers and many others. It can't do organic shapes like Blender. But, if you want something more precise, it is definitely worth trying. It is a lot easier to learn than Blender. It used to be an application that you installed; but, now it is only online - which makes more sense. The free version is very powerful. You can export 2D files. I don't have any old work saved. But, you can get an idea from the website and from searching for SketchUp images/work. There are a lot of tutorials out there, too.
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