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Free Animation Software for A Newbie- UPDATE: I MADE A VIDEO!
Grunt's Ghosts
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So I have been wrestling with the idea of doing a Youtube channel that focuses on Roleplaying Games, like Dungeons and Dragons, for a while now. I don't have a good camera to put my fugly face on so I thought I could do simple animations, since it would also be a unique style to set it apart from other similar channels. I've never messed with any animation software before so I was wondering if there were any that would be easy for a newbie to use.
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Or go for another gimmick. Sock puppets, paper cutouts, action figures, minis, that sort of thing.
If you really want to try animation, I haven't tried these but they look simple enough:
http://listoffreeware.com/list-of-best-free-2d-animation-software-for-windows/
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Free animation software, unless you really don't care about things are going to look, are likely to be painful to use. They just can't even get close to legit stuff sadly.
Do you have a wacom tablet or something you can use to draw in the computer? A better way might be still images that you cut together, kind of like the zero punctuation. It's still going to require you to have some software though
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If you are new to drawing/animation this isnt going to be the most intuitive process, but its not incredibly difficult to learn the software side if you are computer savvy. All considering, many artists have moved into using photoshop for animation, so Krita is not far off from that, by the looks of the UI.
I'm not expecting to make anything big and fancy, something low key, like Cyanide and Happiness or Zero Punctuation or Order of the Stick, something that is simple visually. I might look at that Krita too since I know Photoshop well enough and that might be easier to work with.
Also, I don't have a wacom tablet, yet. I have a friend of mine who is going to dig his old one and we'll see what I can do with it.
Get some miniatures, or make some figures. Some Lego or cardboard backdrops.
As long as you're not after fluid movement I reckon that's the most viable animation option.
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Flash, now called Adobe Animate, is perfectly adequate and now supports development of Canvas and SVG animations.
But it's certainly not free.