Guys, while I would love to give thoughts on other softwares, I cant do that because I havent used them. That doesnt mean they arent valid options or your doing something wrong! Its just means I literally cant give any thoughts on it because I have literally never used it in my life and quite frankly nor do I plan to :p Pls understand, im a human with only so much time, Im working on a short film, I cant really learn a new software in a week and give a valid review; id need about 6 months lmao So if youre wondering why something isnt on the list, its because I quite literally havent used it
I would like to see you giving advice for free animation softwares, like pencil2d (i think it's good for a beginner, and even a toaster can handle it), krita, opentoonz, tahoma2d and some others if you find them (just remembered about flipaclip, but we're not talking about phones there, and firealpaca... That is very beginner artist friendly, but for an animator... It's kind of a hell, honestly), because you don't need any cash to give a review, just time and will
As someone who's used Blender for over three years: You hit the nail on the head. Blender has so many amazing features and abilities that allow you to do anything you want to do in the program. But that is both a positive and a negative, since it also means that you're drowning in features that unless you follow tutorials that are specific to a thing you want to learn, you'll probably get overwhelmed because you don't know where to go with it. To this day, I can't do 2D animation in Blender, because I can't find a good tutorial series for the 2D workflow, so I just use it for 3D. Ironically, I'm using an older version of Flash/Animate for whenever I try doing 2D, but I'm also exploring the idea of OpenToonz, as it's free, open source, and has both Vector AND Raster options. I probably won't use Harmony, CSP, nor the modern version of Animate anytime soon, as I'm broke AF, and in terms of subscription-based software, I hate it to the very core, so I'm always looking for alternatives.
In a weird way I'm kinda happy to hear that Blender is super confusing to learn. I learned it to get into 3D animation and though that maybe I was being a little slow understanding things as little as I did, but glad to see that just a general experience lol. and yeah learning it was turning me off it so many times
if tv paint was in this video id probably find it easy to choose between krita, harmony and tv paint as my main platforms to animate on. but this is a great video overall for helping me try to make up my mind with what i want/dont want to use later in my life
This is a great video, i personally use CSP and blender. the learning curve is definitely their but quality and over time saving you an get by having a complete backdrop in infinite perspectives is great. I'm considering other software that allow 2d puppets like moho, which I think is a one time payment
Ive been using animate since 9th grade! You can get audio, you drag it in, and it's on that layer :D You just need to asd frames you can also scrub the audio as well.
I worked in animate for 8+ years as a professional animator (my avatar is me sitting in my cintiq box lol). There are things I genuinely enjoyed about it, mostly how good it is at utilizing loops and embedded animation, with different functions depending if it was for web or broadcast animation I recently got back into animation, and jumped back into animate, because I’m so familiar with it. Had to do an animation in 4k and EXR colours, and animate just DOES NOT DO THAT (tho it is nice to animate at 50% and just scale it in AE) Thank you for this list. I’m trying to figure out which direction I want to go, and this gives me a decent idea of what I may want to try :)
The beginning hits hard especially after you literally just built a rig that can handle it all and you are ready to start your journey of content creation.
ok so as a adobe animator myself i dont use it anymore BUT- here r my thoughts on adobe animate/flash the subscription is pretty expensive 4 what u get bc adobe animate rlly isnt that good (in my opinion) i used it for fnf sprites thats why i liked it a bit the rest of the stuff was hard to use the onion (idk if i spelt that right) was off cuz when i drew and then turned on the onion it would kinda break bc the two colours wouldnt go to the frame ahead to thats why i didnt do frame by frame animation and only did the motion one next one is the drawing, the pen is pretty good for the stabilization and outlining but they could of added more pens to it except the default pen so its pretty bad but kinda good the audio, i agree about what u said about it, if adobe made updates and included that one i would buy it again (also the way u put in the audio is by getting the mp3 etc u put it on the menu where u entered it then make a new layer go to object or frame i cant remember then go to the audio settings i think then put one of the audio things on stream then drag it down to the layer ur audio is on after that u have to drag a frame then u will the the orange audio) i think i might be wrong so pls correct me if i did. but it would be WAY better + easier for only dragging the audio from the player onto there instead of having to do all of that just to get one audio anyways my rating on adobe animate/flash is a decent 6.9/10
Onion skin is breaking, audio importing is still clunky, pen options are limited, sub isnt really worth it; sounds like a D to me lmao Yes the audio thing was just a gag lmao to show the little things that adobe has refused to update and yes its small, but also its small i know they can make that change cause literally all their softwares you can drag audio on the timeline, workspace, binspace and it just works Animate has the potential to be babys first software (premiere and audition are so easy to jump into), but adobe still makes it a wall to bash your skull against and it drives me CRAZY
@@elhombrechorizo oh lol- i agree it should be a D i would recommend for beginners flipaclip its a mobile animation app its free u can also be on pc to use it but u need bluestacks- but it is a pretty simple animating software since thats what i use all the time for my animations so i think u should make a video rating it if u wanna the stuff on flipaclip is: layers, 6 pens, a ruler with 3 options (straight + circle + square), paintbucket tool, lasso tool, text tool, and even audio + audio library + audio recorder, i think its a rlly good app tho for starters sooo yea
i forgot they also have a onion and u can colourize them too in the options, they also have a grid u just have to go in the 3 dots, another one is the frames viewer + u can add images and videos
15:22 Bro, drag the audio ON THE STAGE and it will appear on the timeline. In fact, you don't even have to drag it to the library first, you can just drag it from your desktop to the stage and it will pop on the timeline. 16:01 Look at this! My god look at this; you can't even drag and drop it in Toonboom, you have to do it from a menu, that's ridiculous. And yeah that's also an option in Flash: File > Import to Stage. Of all the things you could've criticize Flash/Animate for, you chose the wrong one.
Lmao look man jokes aside. its a gag to show how unintuitive flash is from a normans perspective. Flash has so many weird tiny things that add to be extremely annoying and just make no sense. Especially since their other softwares do it very easy and it just makes sense. And even after being renamed animate, I would expect for you to be able to drag into into the timeline AND stage, not just the stage still. Or for keyframes quirk for doing traditional animation, manually adding keyframes/ making individual drawings key frames instead of it just doing it automatically like every other animation software. (Yes I know it has an automatic feature but its still very clunky and annoying, like everything else in flash) If you bash your skull hard enough against any rock, you will eventually crack it. So anything can be capable if you suffer enough (ie paper animation). But there are so many other better rocks to bash your skull into that have a higher reward and have basically made flash obsolete in terms of it as an animation software. If you love flash thats awesome! But from a starter perspective, its not very friendly, and the reward imo isn’t very big compared to learning the other options beyond “yup thats flash” So I do stand by my statement Megaman 8 is sick tho!
This is the best video on RUclips. You are a legend for using that Streets of Rage 3 track. I didn't know Animate was that bad tbh, but yeah...I can see it lol Good video man, damn good.
I subbed so I can say I was here when you were at 1.1k subscribers haha Also really love that you included Flipnote Studio and Aseprite lol. Love those programs despite not being as popular for animation than the other ones. Especially Flipnote, I remember using that back in the DSi days.
I've only ever had blender crash if I use a modifier on a mesh I 100% knew it would just die on. Even when it crashes the autosaves are so frwquent I never lose more than 2 minutes of work... 9/10
i managed to make an animated music video in clip studio. the difficulty curve was insane like wtf. (especially since i was on a time limit)but i managed thanks to a really good tutorials that basically thought me the animation ui and stuff :> and yeah it turned out pretty well! I also know how to import images and stuff without fucking up the timeline so that's nice. imo i would have it as at least an a tier. krita is my ride or die for drawing softwares so yeah. krita has come up with some really cool animation updates too! like being able to make storyboards in the software. but the music scrubbing is still pain ;w; Harmony sounds really nice especially for the sound scrubbing but i have no money to pay every month. so krita and clip are fine for me. especially since i am still practicing so yeah idk. it's pretty good. also clip never crashed for me when i was animating. ;w;
This is a really cool video but.. This feels strongly from the eyes of a 2D animator.. Maya is not on the list even though it is the most widely used professional animation software in the world. Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony, ILM, Illumination.. You name it. Its maya. I get that there is a new generations of animators now coming in and have had different experience with softwares as the industry constantly grows but I think maya should have been on the list. And the thing about Blender taking forever to learn.. That's just learning a 3D software. If you know one its like learning a language you can learn all the other ones right away. Switching from maya to 3dsmax to Blender is not a big deal. Just like you see the clear path you see with familiar icons in 2D softwares , 3D animators can see the same pattern in 3D softwares. But learning any 3D software for the first time as you said is a massive hurdle. I just don't think it applies specifically to Blender. As a 3D animator who enjoys animating in 2D frequently.. I had never heard of Flipnote studio for 3DS!? I still cant belive that. Same with Asperite never heard of that. My go to is clipstudio for 2D. I almost lost my mind getting it to do what I want.. But I figured out a setup that includes foldering the animation frame layers. If Clipstudio Made that for users by default I think its easily A tier. My only grief with it is for some reason if you Tween animate an animation layer like a Background image to get a camera effect. You are not allowed to draw on it while the Tween effect is active. Its so stupid. I zoom in with Tweening than i have to disable it try to guess where the character will be in frame when zoomed in draw it super tiny than back the zoom on.. Its so stupid. I both enjoyed and got frustrated with this video.. Why are these softwares all have a stupid issue.. I also tried harmony but even though I had experince with flash that felt like super complicated.. Plus I hate the Vector brushes.. You are so right.. There is no S tier...
Well I am a 2D animator and I plan to focus this series on 2D :p animating i 3D is a whole different beast that im not qualified to help imo even if I can do it and all the principles of 2D are applicable I just want to help people animate in general, and 2D is a lost easier to approach than 3D imo
I avoid blender, couldn't make a doughnut, couldn't make a cup that fans out slightly and I think I burned up my brain just looking at it. I'm using csp for still animation at the moment but hadn't explored it much. I did enjoy using adobe animate as I figured it out at somewhat a good pace as a beginner and made... bad beginner animation. Although I did not mind paying for it, the problem was when you want to cancel. I had to pay to cancel... I want to find a good program that is easy (as in not blender) and wont rip me off, but also have all the tools I need. I'm still hoping to find the right one, csp is too tempting to keep using 3d models instead of learning how to draw better x.x. I'm glad to come across your video and ranked them to usability and accessibility.
i have to admit, using sounds in Flash is a pain, and there aren't many options except for this awful automation editor that won't let you edit both left and right channels you CAN drag & drop a sound in the timeline tho, if you make a layer first, and then drop the sound on a frame what's actually interesting in Adobe programs is that you can have multiple programs to do multiple tasks you can just make like a sound mock-up in Animate, and re-edit the sound in Premiere (or Audition) i wonder if any of the other programs presented have that synergy thing
maya is great. rarely crashes unless youre doing something you shouldnt do in any software like recursion. its really expensive tho unless you have student access where its free. its also 3d only so if you want 2d youre a bit out of luck. it can Technically be done but youre better off using literally anything else
i honestly used to like blender at first, but now, my computer feels so old that i've had moments where i try to open it, and it crashes in 3 seconds. not joking. That's really my big problem. everything outside of modeling is extremely finnicky, but i think that's the same with all 3d softwares.
If you're just getting started don't worry too much about what software to use. Watch tutorials to get an overview, watch works created in each software to see what it can do, and then try a couple and just start making stuff !! The software isn't going to make you good, practice will. Also, don't pay for software if you're just starting there's plenty free software to get you going.
I am not an animator im any way, shape, or form, but i sometimes use RoughAnimator to train in art It is an animation software, but has capabilities of a microsoft paint with layers:D (still love it tho)
Honestly bro. I just use premiere. Premiere is what makes people think adobe is a good company cause its easily the most simple editing software, that makes actual sense and you can dive into with 0 tutorial. Its actually just so good. Ui is clean, as wide as a puddle but deep as an ocean in terms of what can be done with it. Most people use premiere as an audio editor as well because it functions so well and you can even do some rough motion graphics. If you dont want use to premiere, just use davinci resolve. Its free. Im not too big on sony vegas or pinnacle. Editing in blender is complete dogass. Theres my 1 paragraph tier list
TVpaint is phenomenal. Im just coming at this from a starter perspective. Spending 1500 on a software after spending 1500 on a computer isnt in a lot of peoples budgets 😭 i would give tvpaint an A tbh
@@elhombrechorizo I'm glad it's an A for you! Yeah the price is hella pricey but my god, TVpaint is such an amazing animation software. It's the closest to the organic look and feel of classic hand-drawn frame-by-frame traditional 2D animation. The dialogue/audio sync, the brushes/tools, texture and UI/layout I love it!
Got into PC animating for the "first" time a few months ago in 2022 and my biggest weakness was finding the best software for me, it's either too laggy, too complicated, or I have to sell one healthy young family member a month to pay for it. I've looked on many articles and videos from talented trusted artists for HUNDREDS of days and this *single* video somehow taught me better than all of them. Fucking awesome 👍🏾
Lag/complexity in software is an issue for me as well. Took me 3 years to fully master my 2 programs of choice, photoshop and premiere. Price shouldn't be stopping you! Pirating is RIDICULOUSLY easy nowadays. Of course do this with care, check if what you're downloading is trusted/known not to be malware etc. The time it took me to get Pr/Ps for free is a grain of sand compared to the time it'd take me to earn the money to pay for it =)
@@knaif32 I do have a couple of *[DEFINITELY LEGAL AND LEGIT]* 2022 edition adobe software that honestly work better than I expected. I don't think they'll be very reliable later after a couple years when I get more professional but they definitely are perfect right now 😅
same but add minimalistic program with one of cons (ahem firealpaca, medibang paint, and some of the android apps like flipaclip and ibispaint... i mean, they arent really meant for animation but so is clipstudio paint and yet alot of people use it).
i lost all my childhood-to-highschool sketchbooks in a flood recently and it was heart wrenching, that, plus papercuts, has made me despise paper. one day i will have my revenge.
One trick I learned in college that just does not translate to digital is the fact that you can just rotate paper frames on top of each other. One of my teachers taught us this as a way to make sure you’re keeping your proportions correct
yeah and blender got like 1 billion tuto about every thing on youtube, even grease pencil, so if ur re still unable to understand after 2 weeks... well just stay on paper board ;)
@@tykjarxa No need to be a dick man. I can imagine someone used to the features of other 2d programs getting confused by blender, is a complex program and if you are not in the 3d mentality it can be quite confusing
@@cractor6307 since blender 2.8 ui revamp,everything is so much easier now. You can even choose the premade 2d animations when you opens blender Oh and once you have learned the shortcuts, everything gonna be much more fun
@@Villager_U I know, I'm a 3d artist who started with and mainly uses blender. I do think blender has improved a lot on the past years for new users. But I also think that if you are a mainly 2d artist there's gonna be a bit of a "culture shock" in terminology and feel. Which only adds to the confusion of the step learning curve. (BTW if anybody who Is interested in learning grease pencil reads this. You don't need to learn the whole program, you can take it piece by piece and ignore the elements you don't care about. I personally don't use grease pencil, but that's because I use blender to model and render 3d scenes, so that's the things I learned)
@@cractor6307 agree with that, my answer was based on the author comment in the video who say "there is no map, your friend is no help..." who is totaly wrong in the case of blender so yea if after 2 weeks u are in the state he say... well...
To be fair, Blender is a tool made for professionals. You're supposed to already know 3d modeling to use blender, or at least the terminology and workflow, because it is very similar to Maya.
As a Flash animator, I gotta point this out. If you wanna drag sounds onto the timeline, you gotta have a keyframe, and also extend it so the sound can play. It won't make the frames automatically xD. Aside from that... Everything else is pretty spot on, very much enjoyed this video!
Is there gonna be more parts? This is a BANGER of unexplainable proportions, even for someone who has no business with any of these softwares but still loves animation (im the after effects guy 🥂).
Of course there is! There already 2 other vids if you havent seen them! But Im gonna do like actual animation tutorials once we get past the actual before part of getting what you need!
Great video with awesome info. I usually use blender since I'm already aware of its 3d aspects and the grease pencil gets better the more time you spend with it.
The description of using Blender was brutal, but so true. Totally agree. I have wanted so much to like Blender ,but I just always end up feeling like I am beating my head against the wall trying to use it. If anyone ever figures out how to streamline the user interface of Blender it could be great, but for now, I’d say no thanks I’ve got better things to spend my time on.
Imo, i think the interface, etc is perfectly fine right now. I learned blender when it had the old gray ui and man when the new ui came out. I instantly thought im so fkin jealous of the people who are starting to learn it now. Each their own of course though. I wish you luck if you ever pick up blender again.
NOOOO UR TOO HARSH ON ANIMATE/FLASH, ngl ive been using flash since 2015 and its a great software its one of the first softwares i have use to animate and its def a bit hard to learn sometimes but it barely crashed on me and i do have some issues with it sometimes specially when it wont read the audio or exporting the file as a mp4. but a quick youtube tutorial usually fixs it :,)
@@swzlerscool I ain't broke, I have clip studio ex, I just think people who pay for subscriptions are missing braincells. If your bad with your money just say so.
Man, I was expecting you to have at least hundreds of thousands of subscribers with a video of this quality. I hope this video and your channel blows up more cause this was a really fun watch and I can't wait to see what you make in the future
Fun fact about Animate as an Animate user: You CAN add audio to the timeline, you just have to drag it to the actual canvas and not the timeline, and then manually create the amount of frames needed for the audio, which still kinda sucks but hey, whatever, you still have audio.
Would like to step in and also bring Krita to the spotlight! It's a completely free drawing software, gets updated... every once in a while, coloring lineart is easy thanks to its colorize mask feature, rarely has crashed on me for one, and of course has an animation mode that in my experience is not very hard to use (audio scrubbing kinda janky on my pc tho) and does both frame-by-frame *and* tweening! And when you open it you're greeted with a cute squirrel girl. What else could you ask for (/j)
Yeah, Aside from the cute squirrel girl waifu to greet you, My computer crashes alot using Krita, Probably due to my computer model or something because on my laptop, it's perfectly fine, Strange how that works...
For me I like ibispaint and flipaclip ibispaint for normal drawing,animating with out audio,and just doodling and flipaclip for lipsyncing,audio,importing downloaded/recorded videos for lip syncs and drawing and capcut for editing the videos and main audios and sounds and alight motion for clean animation so i dont break my drawing tablet but I'm in middle school so I'll probably find other programs I like
Having used blender for at least 7 years and being fairly comfortable with it, hearing my friend asks if blender is free and if it works on their operating system felt like I was one of the mentors in the hunger games
Just made it through the Aseprite segment and I'd like to share some thoughts as a long-time aseprite user. - There is supposed to be an audio track feature in an update in the future, not sure how near that may be. - If you accidentally export a PNG from illustrator at like 10,000 pixels and open it with aseprite, you're gonna have a bad time. But It really won't crash unless you're working on a gigantic canvas. - There's a great community around aseprite and a lot of people make and share scripts to help with niche functionality which is handy. One of which that's great for game dev is Adam C Younis' script that exports tagged frames to their own sprite sheets. I am definitely biased toward aseprite but I need a higher-res animation software that isn't photoshop so now I shall continue watching this video. Thank you for this video.
21:37 to be real, this is what i feel about blender for the past few days I been learning blender for about a weekish, and made some things im say im proud of, but there are so many things to learn and do, right now im rendering a piece and want to figure out how to make it better, now there are some amazing discord servers to get feedback and what to do aswell as me being the type of person to love learning new stuff that would genuinely surpirse me, but man, when I want a result and idk how to name it, it sucks And don’t even get me started on animating 3d
I feel like you were kinda harsh on Blender (coming from a 3d artist, though I think I make some good points if you're willing to get through my short essay). Alot of points were valid, but ranking stability below Adobe animate is unfair, especially since there are Blender builds like the Goo Engine specifically made to be more stable for animation (not to mention the added features). In my opinion, Blender should have gotten an A+ or S rank in ease of access for being the only free option in the bunch. I guess your ease of use rating makes sense if you are coming at it from the perspective of someone who hasn't heard of google, but the documentation for Grease Pencil is very well written, and with the community being so large there are plenty of tutorials online to point you in the right direction. Plus, you completely neglected to mention Blender addons, many of which can simplify the UI/UX for 2d users and things like brushes and visible waveforms in the timeline, (this section is more for people wanting to use 3d with 2d) not to mention the potential for using accurate lighting with mixed media, using a 3d character with faces and outlines applied over top. It allows you to completely reorganize your workflow, allowing you to set colors early and iterate on scenes very quickly. And you can automate things like outlines and give them automated rippling to make them feel hand drawn, plus if you're willing to step more into the realm of 3d, hand drawn faces can be used as textures on a 3d model, allowing for the use of auto lipsyncing solutions, such as rhubarb lipsync, with predrawn visemes to take a lot of busy work out of lipsyncing. This doesn't make lipsyncing free, you'll still have to make adjustments and add any unique expressions in by hand, but for beginners it is a great way to focus on things like character animations without having to spend a lot of time drawing faces to make the animation feel complete. There is also the benefit or allowing users to bring in and stylize models to use in backgrounds, or create hardsurface models for vehicles and other objects that should maintain proportions through perspective as seen in OtaKing Animations "How to Animate an 80s Anime Ship" (he uses Cinema 4d but as the video is rather old, Blender's internal tools for toon shading have become robust enough that everything could be done in the app, especially with Goo Engine)(I'd also be curious to hear your opinion on TVPaint, though its feature set seems pretty comparable to other editors for the $300 pricetag, though not sure if others have FX capabilities like glow). Check out some of the videos from Worthikids, makers of BigTop Burger, or the Grease Pencil Blender talks from La Cuisine/the add ons list that Flavio Perez created from La Cuisine. I think for all of the reasons above, Blender deserved a higher ranking than C, though as I am not a 2d animator I would be interested to hear your perspective on Blender after at least looking into the La Cuisine add on list, and maybe Goo Engine (though this is more for making 3d stylized to look 2d, so i understand if you give it a pass). Keep up the great work, your production quality is crazy good for a 300 subscriber channel, can't wait to see where you go in the future :)
I think blender is AMAZING software, especially since its free. Nothing got an A+ or S because that didnt exist on my scale (a final rank S tier software would be an A on all fronts ,ease of access etc, meaning its perfect). While everything youre saying is awesome, you have to find all that out on your own. Im coming at this from the perspective of someone starting out. If you bash your skull against any wall long enough you will make a hole for you to walk through. Think about it like this: why do I have to get all these add ons? Why do I have to do all this extra work and research to make this software awesome? Why cant it all just be there off top when I turn it on? Does that make sense? I LOVE blender, but you listing out all the things you have to find, dl, research to me kind of supports my final ranking of it being extremely tedious and having to do a lot of work before the software can just work. As I said in the video, if you bash your skull hard enough with blender, there is a gorgeous piece of equipment. But even getting there is a pain in the ass because of how many walls there are. The softwares I ranked higher just work once you turn them on, theres not much extra work to make them great. A C isnt bad imo
@@elhombrechorizo I guess I understand, I think a difficulty curve might have been better to represent ease of use, but I understand sticking to level grades. I guess I disagree with your take on how software should be, primarily from a learning perspective. I’m guessing you’re coming at this from the perspective of a good animator, but with the same logic if you put a piece of paper in front of someone and asked them to animate with no knowledge of the principles of animation, it would take them way longer than if you gave them a book first. You are in university, but why are you learning if you can smash your head against the wall until it works. I guess I’m just not a fan of CTE, and ignoring the documentation each software provides when talking about ease of use, and how easy it is to find, would have made sense to me. Additionally, you mention things like brushes for other software, and I don’t see much of a difference between that and addons, unless you only talk about brushes included in the software. Though being this divisive with what can and can’t be included isn’t productive for the video, as we could also say that you wouldn’t be able to produce a full color animation with a paper and pencil. Plus, with Blender being free and many add ons being free, I’m more keen to be in favor of it, particularly when recommending beginners a software to learn. Hence the difficulty curve earlier, it’s intimidating for sure, but if you have an hour to research you can pretty quickly setup a much more user friendly workspace to animate in. Just some thoughts, thank you for the response. Like I said keep up the great work (and still interested if you’ve heard of/used tvpaint)
Have you heard of the software called "Cacani"? It's a 2D animation software with added tools to speed up and semi automate in-between frames, and also the lines you draw can be edited as vectors. I haven't spend much time with it but from what i've seen online its pretty cool.
You described the blender experience so we'll, like no other, LMAO, it's like great, but also I'm aways so lost, I've never been more grateful for RUclips tutorials before I decided to try blender
Someone may have already commented on this, but Aesprite is free if you are willing to compile the source code yourself. Granted, the audience here is primarily artists, not programmers, and even as someone who does a fair bit of coding, it still took me about an hour to figure out how to compile Aesprite for the first time. So, for all intents and purposes, Aesprite is $20 (which may be why you didn't mention the compile-it-yourself option), but I still felt it is worth mentioning.
I just want to preface this by saying that I'm not an animator, but I have a lot of animator friends that all use Adobe. Adobe is in my opinion the best animation software for beginners, as it has all the tools that are needed to be good, and are all easy to use. The symbol system usually takes some a bit to learn, but after you learn adobe, it is extremely powerful. I find it unfair that you didn't really rank adobe properly, not talking about all the good features it has, like onion skin, editing multiple frames at once, some of the most advanced tweening in animation, camera manipulation, and audio scrubbing. You can also do 3D in adobe, it is very shitty, and no one should use it, but it exists. Adobe is so easy to understand that even me, as a non animator, knows how to use adobe, and can actually animate in it (to the best of my ability). The only major downside to adobe is the crashing, however if you don't have many animations open at once, and you dont do something stupid like selecting 1,00 frames and trying to convert them all to keyframes, you should be fine. Even if you crash, though, the auto recovery system is actually pretty ok. It's not perfect, and might turn your entire background red, but it's still there. You can also import .JSFLs, which are pieces of code that tell adobe to manipulate things on certain frames. For example, shaker is a .JSFL that shakes a selected symbol to a certain amount. But yeah, all in all, adobe is pretty good when you get the hang of it, and if you're willing to pay $20 a month for it (or just pirate it like the rest of us) (side note, you inserted the audio wrong. You're supposed to make an audio layer, import the audio into the library, select the audio layer, and then drag the audio onto the stage.)
Yeah the thing is, all the other softwares can do that. But it doesnt suck. Or crash. The major downside to adobe animate is that it still sucks 20 years later.
Guys, while I would love to give thoughts on other softwares, I cant do that because I havent used them. That doesnt mean they arent valid options or your doing something wrong! Its just means I literally cant give any thoughts on it because I have literally never used it in my life and quite frankly nor do I plan to :p
Pls understand, im a human with only so much time, Im working on a short film, I cant really learn a new software in a week and give a valid review; id need about 6 months lmao
So if youre wondering why something isnt on the list, its because I quite literally havent used it
harmony goated
Lack of a discord is disappointing to me :(
I would like to see you giving advice for free animation softwares, like pencil2d (i think it's good for a beginner, and even a toaster can handle it), krita, opentoonz, tahoma2d and some others if you find them (just remembered about flipaclip, but we're not talking about phones there, and firealpaca... That is very beginner artist friendly, but for an animator... It's kind of a hell, honestly), because you don't need any cash to give a review, just time and will
really late on this, but you never really tried Krita as an animtation software
Blender is like...the swiss army knife of digital art. It can do EVERYTHING and all of it at least decently. The price is your soul tho.
😂 true, I spend more of my life in blender than anything else
LMAOO
As someone who's used Blender for over three years: You hit the nail on the head. Blender has so many amazing features and abilities that allow you to do anything you want to do in the program. But that is both a positive and a negative, since it also means that you're drowning in features that unless you follow tutorials that are specific to a thing you want to learn, you'll probably get overwhelmed because you don't know where to go with it.
To this day, I can't do 2D animation in Blender, because I can't find a good tutorial series for the 2D workflow, so I just use it for 3D. Ironically, I'm using an older version of Flash/Animate for whenever I try doing 2D, but I'm also exploring the idea of OpenToonz, as it's free, open source, and has both Vector AND Raster options. I probably won't use Harmony, CSP, nor the modern version of Animate anytime soon, as I'm broke AF, and in terms of subscription-based software, I hate it to the very core, so I'm always looking for alternatives.
hey man, can you please tell us what you think of this OpenToonz (at least compared to these other sftware) after trying it out? thanks in advance
remember, it's completely okay to pirate adobe products
In a weird way I'm kinda happy to hear that Blender is super confusing to learn. I learned it to get into 3D animation and though that maybe I was being a little slow understanding things as little as I did, but glad to see that just a general experience lol. and yeah learning it was turning me off it so many times
if tv paint was in this video id probably find it easy to choose between krita, harmony and tv paint as my main platforms to animate on. but this is a great video overall for helping me try to make up my mind with what i want/dont want to use later in my life
This is a great video, i personally use CSP and blender. the learning curve is definitely their but quality and over time saving you an get by having a complete backdrop in infinite perspectives is great. I'm considering other software that allow 2d puppets like moho, which I think is a one time payment
Ive been using animate since 9th grade! You can get audio, you drag it in, and it's on that layer :D
You just need to asd frames you can also scrub the audio as well.
Clip Studio Paint is becoming basically a subscription now
I worked in animate for 8+ years as a professional animator (my avatar is me sitting in my cintiq box lol). There are things I genuinely enjoyed about it, mostly how good it is at utilizing loops and embedded animation, with different functions depending if it was for web or broadcast animation
I recently got back into animation, and jumped back into animate, because I’m so familiar with it. Had to do an animation in 4k and EXR colours, and animate just DOES NOT DO THAT (tho it is nice to animate at 50% and just scale it in AE)
Thank you for this list. I’m trying to figure out which direction I want to go, and this gives me a decent idea of what I may want to try :)
The beginning hits hard especially after you literally just built a rig that can handle it all and you are ready to start your journey of content creation.
seeing everyone talks about the complexity of the blender made me feel relieved. thank god I thought I was just stupid
ok so as a adobe animator myself i dont use it anymore BUT-
here r my thoughts on adobe animate/flash
the subscription is pretty expensive 4 what u get bc adobe animate rlly isnt that good (in my opinion)
i used it for fnf sprites thats why i liked it a bit the rest of the stuff was hard to use
the onion (idk if i spelt that right) was off cuz when i drew and then turned on the onion it would kinda break
bc the two colours wouldnt go to the frame ahead to thats why i didnt do frame by frame animation and only did the motion one
next one is the drawing, the pen is pretty good for the stabilization and outlining but they could of added more pens to it
except the default pen so its pretty bad but kinda good
the audio, i agree about what u said about it, if adobe made updates and included that one i would buy it again
(also the way u put in the audio is by getting the mp3 etc u put it on the menu where u entered it then make a new layer go to object or frame i cant remember then go to the audio settings i think then put one of the audio things on stream then drag it down to the layer ur audio is on after that u have to drag a frame then u will the the orange audio) i think i might be wrong so pls correct me if i did. but it would be WAY better + easier for only dragging the audio from the player onto there instead of having to do all of that just to get one audio
anyways my rating on adobe animate/flash is a decent 6.9/10
Onion skin is breaking, audio importing is still clunky, pen options are limited, sub isnt really worth it; sounds like a D to me lmao
Yes the audio thing was just a gag lmao to show the little things that adobe has refused to update and yes its small, but also its small i know they can make that change cause literally all their softwares you can drag audio on the timeline, workspace, binspace and it just works
Animate has the potential to be babys first software (premiere and audition are so easy to jump into), but adobe still makes it a wall to bash your skull against and it drives me CRAZY
@@elhombrechorizo oh lol- i agree it should be a D i would recommend for beginners flipaclip its a mobile animation app its free u can also be on pc to use it but u need bluestacks- but it is a pretty simple animating software since thats what i use all the time for my animations so i think u should make a video rating it if u wanna
the stuff on flipaclip is: layers, 6 pens, a ruler with 3 options (straight + circle + square), paintbucket tool, lasso tool, text tool, and even audio + audio library + audio recorder, i think its a rlly good app tho for starters sooo yea
i forgot they also have a onion and u can colourize them too in the options, they also have a grid u just have to go in the 3 dots, another one is the frames viewer + u can add images and videos
"Only the most bearable" so true
15:22 Bro, drag the audio ON THE STAGE and it will appear on the timeline. In fact, you don't even have to drag it to the library first, you can just drag it from your desktop to the stage and it will pop on the timeline.
16:01 Look at this! My god look at this; you can't even drag and drop it in Toonboom, you have to do it from a menu, that's ridiculous. And yeah that's also an option in Flash: File > Import to Stage.
Of all the things you could've criticize Flash/Animate for, you chose the wrong one.
Nope. Flash sucks. Get over it. :3
@@elhombrechorizo You made a mistake, own it.
A mistake in flash sucking? And every other option being better? NOPE.
@@elhombrechorizo Hey If I can recreate the Megaman 8 opening in Animate, anyone can, it's pretty capable if you know how to use it.
Lmao look man jokes aside. its a gag to show how unintuitive flash is from a normans perspective. Flash has so many weird tiny things that add to be extremely annoying and just make no sense. Especially since their other softwares do it very easy and it just makes sense. And even after being renamed animate, I would expect for you to be able to drag into into the timeline AND stage, not just the stage still. Or for keyframes quirk for doing traditional animation, manually adding keyframes/ making individual drawings key frames instead of it just doing it automatically like every other animation software. (Yes I know it has an automatic feature but its still very clunky and annoying, like everything else in flash)
If you bash your skull hard enough against any rock, you will eventually crack it. So anything can be capable if you suffer enough (ie paper animation). But there are so many other better rocks to bash your skull into that have a higher reward and have basically made flash obsolete in terms of it as an animation software.
If you love flash thats awesome! But from a starter perspective, its not very friendly, and the reward imo isn’t very big compared to learning the other options beyond “yup thats flash”
So I do stand by my statement
Megaman 8 is sick tho!
This is the best video on RUclips. You are a legend for using that Streets of Rage 3 track. I didn't know Animate was that bad tbh, but yeah...I can see it lol Good video man, damn good.
This be the most useful video I've ever watched. So much thought in it thankyou chorizofather
I subbed so I can say I was here when you were at 1.1k subscribers haha
Also really love that you included Flipnote Studio and Aseprite lol. Love those programs despite not being as popular for animation than the other ones. Especially Flipnote, I remember using that back in the DSi days.
I've only ever had blender crash if I use a modifier on a mesh I 100% knew it would just die on. Even when it crashes the autosaves are so frwquent I never lose more than 2 minutes of work... 9/10
i managed to make an animated music video in clip studio. the difficulty curve was insane like wtf. (especially since i was on a time limit)but i managed thanks to a really good tutorials that basically thought me the animation ui and stuff :> and yeah it turned out pretty well! I also know how to import images and stuff without fucking up the timeline so that's nice. imo i would have it as at least an a tier. krita is my ride or die for drawing softwares so yeah. krita has come up with some really cool animation updates too! like being able to make storyboards in the software. but the music scrubbing is still pain ;w;
Harmony sounds really nice especially for the sound scrubbing but i have no money to pay every month. so krita and clip are fine for me. especially since i am still practicing so yeah idk. it's pretty good. also clip never crashed for me when i was animating. ;w;
This is a really cool video but..
This feels strongly from the eyes of a 2D animator.. Maya is not on the list even though it is the most widely used professional animation software in the world. Pixar, Dreamworks, Sony, ILM, Illumination.. You name it. Its maya. I get that there is a new generations of animators now coming in and have had different experience with softwares as the industry constantly grows but I think maya should have been on the list.
And the thing about Blender taking forever to learn.. That's just learning a 3D software. If you know one its like learning a language you can learn all the other ones right away. Switching from maya to 3dsmax to Blender is not a big deal. Just like you see the clear path you see with familiar icons in 2D softwares , 3D animators can see the same pattern in 3D softwares. But learning any 3D software for the first time as you said is a massive hurdle. I just don't think it applies specifically to Blender.
As a 3D animator who enjoys animating in 2D frequently.. I had never heard of Flipnote studio for 3DS!? I still cant belive that. Same with Asperite never heard of that.
My go to is clipstudio for 2D. I almost lost my mind getting it to do what I want.. But I figured out a setup that includes foldering the animation frame layers. If Clipstudio Made that for users by default I think its easily A tier. My only grief with it is for some reason if you Tween animate an animation layer like a Background image to get a camera effect. You are not allowed to draw on it while the Tween effect is active. Its so stupid. I zoom in with Tweening than i have to disable it try to guess where the character will be in frame when zoomed in draw it super tiny than back the zoom on.. Its so stupid.
I both enjoyed and got frustrated with this video.. Why are these softwares all have a stupid issue..
I also tried harmony but even though I had experince with flash that felt like super complicated.. Plus I hate the Vector brushes..
You are so right.. There is no S tier...
Well I am a 2D animator and I plan to focus this series on 2D :p animating i 3D is a whole different beast that im not qualified to help imo even if I can do it and all the principles of 2D are applicable
I just want to help people animate in general, and 2D is a lost easier to approach than 3D imo
I avoid blender, couldn't make a doughnut, couldn't make a cup that fans out slightly and I think I burned up my brain just looking at it.
I'm using csp for still animation at the moment but hadn't explored it much.
I did enjoy using adobe animate as I figured it out at somewhat a good pace as a beginner and made... bad beginner animation. Although I did not mind paying for it, the problem was when you want to cancel. I had to pay to cancel...
I want to find a good program that is easy (as in not blender) and wont rip me off, but also have all the tools I need. I'm still hoping to find the right one, csp is too tempting to keep using 3d models instead of learning how to draw better x.x.
I'm glad to come across your video and ranked them to usability and accessibility.
Finally, THANK YOU, now i don't need to use Scratch for animating
i have to admit, using sounds in Flash is a pain, and there aren't many options except for this awful automation editor that won't let you edit both left and right channels
you CAN drag & drop a sound in the timeline tho, if you make a layer first, and then drop the sound on a frame
what's actually interesting in Adobe programs is that you can have multiple programs to do multiple tasks
you can just make like a sound mock-up in Animate, and re-edit the sound in Premiere (or Audition)
i wonder if any of the other programs presented have that synergy thing
Applause, applause. Excellent presentation.
maya is great. rarely crashes unless youre doing something you shouldnt do in any software like recursion. its really expensive tho unless you have student access where its free. its also 3d only so if you want 2d youre a bit out of luck. it can Technically be done but youre better off using literally anything else
This video is the magnum opus of guides
I was dying when he described Blender's ease of use😂😂😂LMAOOOOO
I LOVE FLIPNOTE STUDIO
15:24
You drag the audio to the canvas
Not the timeline sadly
i honestly used to like blender at first, but now, my computer feels so old that i've had moments where i try to open it, and it crashes in 3 seconds. not joking. That's really my big problem. everything outside of modeling is extremely finnicky, but i think that's the same with all 3d softwares.
if your pc is so old, why not use an older version of blender? their own website has links to older versions.
Thank you, Chorizo. that video is really help me. + One subscriber!
moho is awesome and easy for animation too
Adobe Flash CS4 is still usable in 2024:P. Change my mind.
I was looking forward to seeing what ended up in the F tier lol
Ngl paper cracked me tf up
If you're just getting started don't worry too much about what software to use. Watch tutorials to get an overview, watch works created in each software to see what it can do, and then try a couple and just start making stuff !! The software isn't going to make you good, practice will. Also, don't pay for software if you're just starting there's plenty free software to get you going.
Pensé que hablabas español por tu nombre, but, good video 👍
I had a hell of a lot more fun making comics on paper than I did f*cking around with animation software.
I am not an animator im any way, shape, or form, but i sometimes use RoughAnimator to train in art
It is an animation software, but has capabilities of a microsoft paint with layers:D
(still love it tho)
why dont i just use all of them at the same time
Wait…Flipnote studio on PC?
How would you rate FireAlpaca??
It's one year I'm using blender to make 3d animations and I like it (also the 3d animations are on my channel if anybody cares)
Blender really is the Dark Souls of animation softwares.
finally a RUclips animator that actually tells his fans what software to use, i would love to see you do a video editor tier list next
Honestly bro. I just use premiere. Premiere is what makes people think adobe is a good company cause its easily the most simple editing software, that makes actual sense and you can dive into with 0 tutorial. Its actually just so good. Ui is clean, as wide as a puddle but deep as an ocean in terms of what can be done with it. Most people use premiere as an audio editor as well because it functions so well and you can even do some rough motion graphics.
If you dont want use to premiere, just use davinci resolve. Its free.
Im not too big on sony vegas or pinnacle.
Editing in blender is complete dogass.
Theres my 1 paragraph tier list
@@elhombrechorizo is vegas shit?
@@TotalMaggotz no, premiere and resolve are just way better
"you're paying for a shit software"
me pirating old versions of animate/flash:
Blender's community is like "if you don't like it it just means you're bad at it"
As a software dev I always try to make the software a little bit toxic just to piss off the users 🤣
It would be cool if you mentioned pivot animator
I just got into animation and it really is a struggle no matter the program though, I use krita's animation software and honestly I'm workin w it well
Only came here for TVpaint it didn't even made it to the list 😭
(Edit: thanks for the rating, pricey but good) :p
TVpaint is phenomenal. Im just coming at this from a starter perspective. Spending 1500 on a software after spending 1500 on a computer isnt in a lot of peoples budgets 😭 i would give tvpaint an A tbh
@@elhombrechorizo I'm glad it's an A for you! Yeah the price is hella pricey but my god, TVpaint is such an amazing animation software. It's the closest to the organic look and feel of classic hand-drawn frame-by-frame traditional 2D animation. The dialogue/audio sync, the brushes/tools, texture and UI/layout I love it!
@@Jekoza yeah imo tvpaint is for once you know you have a passion for animation and really want to pursue it. Its a a brilliant software for 2D.
I think Ima stick to flipaclip 😒 . . .
I would like your opinion on opentoonz
Do not judge my Wii!
Why are you calling it assprite?
Mod your 3ds to get flipnote studio
Krita?
Blender's Learning curve is HIGH,, ut its good.
Got into PC animating for the "first" time a few months ago in 2022 and my biggest weakness was finding the best software for me, it's either too laggy, too complicated, or I have to sell one healthy young family member a month to pay for it. I've looked on many articles and videos from talented trusted artists for HUNDREDS of days and this *single* video somehow taught me better than all of them. Fucking awesome 👍🏾
If you want a super responsive software for 2D bro, harmony is your best bet.
Grease pencil is amazing as well if you want something free
U could ehm *coughs*...... 🦜 it
Lag/complexity in software is an issue for me as well. Took me 3 years to fully master my 2 programs of choice, photoshop and premiere.
Price shouldn't be stopping you! Pirating is RIDICULOUSLY easy nowadays. Of course do this with care, check if what you're downloading is trusted/known not to be malware etc.
The time it took me to get Pr/Ps for free is a grain of sand compared to the time it'd take me to earn the money to pay for it =)
@@knaif32 I do have a couple of *[DEFINITELY LEGAL AND LEGIT]* 2022 edition adobe software that honestly work better than I expected. I don't think they'll be very reliable later after a couple years when I get more professional but they definitely are perfect right now 😅
same but add minimalistic program with one of cons (ahem firealpaca, medibang paint, and some of the android apps like flipaclip and ibispaint... i mean, they arent really meant for animation but so is clipstudio paint and yet alot of people use it).
If you're both computer graphic programmer and an artist, then blender is like revelation from god
paper stability I'd say is A-S Tier, I've never had it disappear on its own yet, usually it was user error (dropped in a puddle)
The file size is very big tho
i lost all my childhood-to-highschool sketchbooks in a flood recently and it was heart wrenching, that, plus papercuts, has made me despise paper. one day i will have my revenge.
One trick I learned in college that just does not translate to digital is the fact that you can just rotate paper frames on top of each other. One of my teachers taught us this as a way to make sure you’re keeping your proportions correct
@@theperson3739 maybe rather despise floods?
@@theperson3739 what. do you plan on giving the paper flesh cuts?
Blender has a search feature I use often while modelling, it speeds up learning a lot if you know the terminology
yeah and blender got like 1 billion tuto about every thing on youtube, even grease pencil, so if ur re still unable to understand after 2 weeks... well just stay on paper board ;)
@@tykjarxa No need to be a dick man. I can imagine someone used to the features of other 2d programs getting confused by blender, is a complex program and if you are not in the 3d mentality it can be quite confusing
@@cractor6307 since blender 2.8 ui revamp,everything is so much easier now. You can even choose the premade 2d animations when you opens blender
Oh and once you have learned the shortcuts, everything gonna be much more fun
@@Villager_U I know, I'm a 3d artist who started with and mainly uses blender. I do think blender has improved a lot on the past years for new users. But I also think that if you are a mainly 2d artist there's gonna be a bit of a "culture shock" in terminology and feel. Which only adds to the confusion of the step learning curve. (BTW if anybody who Is interested in learning grease pencil reads this. You don't need to learn the whole program, you can take it piece by piece and ignore the elements you don't care about. I personally don't use grease pencil, but that's because I use blender to model and render 3d scenes, so that's the things I learned)
@@cractor6307 agree with that, my answer was based on the author comment in the video who say "there is no map, your friend is no help..." who is totaly wrong in the case of blender so yea if after 2 weeks u are in the state he say... well...
To be fair, Blender is a tool made for professionals. You're supposed to already know 3d modeling to use blender, or at least the terminology and workflow, because it is very similar to Maya.
As a Flash animator, I gotta point this out. If you wanna drag sounds onto the timeline, you gotta have a keyframe, and also extend it so the sound can play. It won't make the frames automatically xD. Aside from that... Everything else is pretty spot on, very much enjoyed this video!
Yeah. People think adobe animate is some type of video editing software.
im so dumb thank you for this
roblox studio
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh hell nah
Okay
genuinely a viable option!
@@babypupa3 no it's not 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫 🥶🥶🥶
Is there gonna be more parts? This is a BANGER of unexplainable proportions, even for someone who has no business with any of these softwares but still loves animation (im the after effects guy 🥂).
Of course there is! There already 2 other vids if you havent seen them! But Im gonna do like actual animation tutorials once we get past the actual before part of getting what you need!
Im only 1 minute in and i feel i have gotten enough information to last me the rest of my life
As a 3D animator in blender, I don't need these videos at all, but seeing this style and how truly genuine you are is refreshing as hell. Keep it up!
Who asked mate ,this stuff is for beginners like us not pros like you.😶😶
As a blender user who has studying blender I agree xd
@@hurstcifer7286they're just giving a compliment chill out..
Great video with awesome info. I usually use blender since I'm already aware of its 3d aspects and the grease pencil gets better the more time you spend with it.
15:30 you just drag into the blank space of the timeline and done the audio is there
flash didnt deserve that 😞 all u have to do is drag it to the stage, not the timeline goof💀
Flash deserves all the hate with my very being. This is a no flash zone
@@elhombrechorizo also ur underrated so u get a sub
@@elhombrechorizo Then hate it for something it can't do; you goofed up.
The description of using Blender was brutal, but so true. Totally agree. I have wanted so much to like Blender ,but I just always end up feeling like I am beating my head against the wall trying to use it. If anyone ever figures out how to streamline the user interface of Blender it could be great, but for now, I’d say no thanks I’ve got better things to spend my time on.
I had bought a course on Domestika to teach me it, but eventually got stuck cuz the damn cube wouldn't let itself get sculpted on
@@reptiliannoizezz.413 you need more vertices, otherwise your just pushing around the corners
@@peterhindes56 So, subdivide first?
dedouze has a few videos that are great for learning the grease pencil
Imo, i think the interface, etc is perfectly fine right now. I learned blender when it had the old gray ui and man when the new ui came out. I instantly thought im so fkin jealous of the people who are starting to learn it now. Each their own of course though. I wish you luck if you ever pick up blender again.
NOOOO UR TOO HARSH ON ANIMATE/FLASH, ngl ive been using flash since 2015 and its a great software its one of the first softwares i have use to animate and its def a bit hard to learn sometimes but it barely crashed on me and i do have some issues with it sometimes specially when it wont read the audio or exporting the file as a mp4. but a quick youtube tutorial usually fixs it :,)
Bro imagine paying monthly for harmony just to draw like that 💀
@@ghostface7545 for $10 we can draw as shitty as we want son 😎
if you broke just say so
@@swzlerscool I ain't broke, I have clip studio ex, I just think people who pay for subscriptions are missing braincells. If your bad with your money just say so.
@@ghostface7545 its their money that they worked hard to get it they can do whatever they want
As a flash user, watching him repeatedly drag the audio to the timeline and not the stage pisses me off
Meanwhile flipaclip users:
Man, I was expecting you to have at least hundreds of thousands of subscribers with a video of this quality. I hope this video and your channel blows up more cause this was a really fun watch and I can't wait to see what you make in the future
23:30 Honestly it was all worth it. The editing is so godly and crunchy.
Fun fact about Animate as an Animate user: You CAN add audio to the timeline, you just have to drag it to the actual canvas and not the timeline, and then manually create the amount of frames needed for the audio, which still kinda sucks but hey, whatever, you still have audio.
Would like to step in and also bring Krita to the spotlight!
It's a completely free drawing software, gets updated... every once in a while, coloring lineart is easy thanks to its colorize mask feature, rarely has crashed on me for one, and of course has an animation mode that in my experience is not very hard to use (audio scrubbing kinda janky on my pc tho) and does both frame-by-frame *and* tweening!
And when you open it you're greeted with a cute squirrel girl. What else could you ask for (/j)
Yeah, Aside from the cute squirrel girl waifu to greet you, My computer crashes alot using Krita, Probably due to my computer model or something because on my laptop, it's perfectly fine, Strange how that works...
@@BVK. i think krita has a thing for laptops, i use the shitty potato laptop alot but drawing on canvases in 4K barely if at all crashes the software
For me I like ibispaint and flipaclip ibispaint for normal drawing,animating with out audio,and just doodling and flipaclip for lipsyncing,audio,importing downloaded/recorded videos for lip syncs and drawing and capcut for editing the videos and main audios and sounds and alight motion for clean animation so i dont break my drawing tablet but I'm in middle school so I'll probably find other programs I like
Having used blender for at least 7 years and being fairly comfortable with it, hearing my friend asks if blender is free and if it works on their operating system felt like I was one of the mentors in the hunger games
in adobe flash, you gotta make a new keyframe, drag the audio to the stage, then pull that frame out until the audio is finished lmao
Just made it through the Aseprite segment and I'd like to share some thoughts as a long-time aseprite user.
- There is supposed to be an audio track feature in an update in the future, not sure how near that may be.
- If you accidentally export a PNG from illustrator at like 10,000 pixels and open it with aseprite, you're gonna have a bad time. But It really won't crash unless you're working on a gigantic canvas.
- There's a great community around aseprite and a lot of people make and share scripts to help with niche functionality which is handy. One of which that's great for game dev is Adam C Younis' script that exports tagged frames to their own sprite sheets.
I am definitely biased toward aseprite but I need a higher-res animation software that isn't photoshop so now I shall continue watching this video.
Thank you for this video.
There's opentoonz tho
What is your opinion on Opentoonz?
Great video! Fun fact though, you actually can do audio scrubbing in CSP. Something that stumbled across the other day while using it.
Hmmmm I know you can add audio. Unless it something im not understanding, how do you audio scrub in csp?
Why do you think Animate/Flash is shit? It's never been shit. You are so wrong, you just don't know how to use it.
Clip Studio Paint can be vector based. Look into vector layers. Just because of that I would put it in A tier
21:37 to be real, this is what i feel about blender for the past few days
I been learning blender for about a weekish, and made some things im say im proud of, but there are so many things to learn and do, right now im rendering a piece and want to figure out how to make it better, now there are some amazing discord servers to get feedback and what to do aswell as me being the type of person to love learning new stuff that would genuinely surpirse me, but man, when I want a result and idk how to name it, it sucks
And don’t even get me started on animating 3d
I feel like you were kinda harsh on Blender (coming from a 3d artist, though I think I make some good points if you're willing to get through my short essay). Alot of points were valid, but ranking stability below Adobe animate is unfair, especially since there are Blender builds like the Goo Engine specifically made to be more stable for animation (not to mention the added features). In my opinion, Blender should have gotten an A+ or S rank in ease of access for being the only free option in the bunch. I guess your ease of use rating makes sense if you are coming at it from the perspective of someone who hasn't heard of google, but the documentation for Grease Pencil is very well written, and with the community being so large there are plenty of tutorials online to point you in the right direction. Plus, you completely neglected to mention Blender addons, many of which can simplify the UI/UX for 2d users and things like brushes and visible waveforms in the timeline,
(this section is more for people wanting to use 3d with 2d)
not to mention the potential for using accurate lighting with mixed media, using a 3d character with faces and outlines applied over top. It allows you to completely reorganize your workflow, allowing you to set colors early and iterate on scenes very quickly. And you can automate things like outlines and give them automated rippling to make them feel hand drawn, plus if you're willing to step more into the realm of 3d, hand drawn faces can be used as textures on a 3d model, allowing for the use of auto lipsyncing solutions, such as rhubarb lipsync, with predrawn visemes to take a lot of busy work out of lipsyncing. This doesn't make lipsyncing free, you'll still have to make adjustments and add any unique expressions in by hand, but for beginners it is a great way to focus on things like character animations without having to spend a lot of time drawing faces to make the animation feel complete. There is also the benefit or allowing users to bring in and stylize models to use in backgrounds, or create hardsurface models for vehicles and other objects that should maintain proportions through perspective as seen in OtaKing Animations "How to Animate an 80s Anime Ship" (he uses Cinema 4d but as the video is rather old, Blender's internal tools for toon shading have become robust enough that everything could be done in the app, especially with Goo Engine)(I'd also be curious to hear your opinion on TVPaint, though its feature set seems pretty comparable to other editors for the $300 pricetag, though not sure if others have FX capabilities like glow).
Check out some of the videos from Worthikids, makers of BigTop Burger, or the Grease Pencil Blender talks from La Cuisine/the add ons list that Flavio Perez created from La Cuisine.
I think for all of the reasons above, Blender deserved a higher ranking than C, though as I am not a 2d animator I would be interested to hear your perspective on Blender after at least looking into the La Cuisine add on list, and maybe Goo Engine (though this is more for making 3d stylized to look 2d, so i understand if you give it a pass). Keep up the great work, your production quality is crazy good for a 300 subscriber channel, can't wait to see where you go in the future :)
I think blender is AMAZING software, especially since its free. Nothing got an A+ or S because that didnt exist on my scale (a final rank S tier software would be an A on all fronts ,ease of access etc, meaning its perfect).
While everything youre saying is awesome, you have to find all that out on your own. Im coming at this from the perspective of someone starting out. If you bash your skull against any wall long enough you will make a hole for you to walk through.
Think about it like this: why do I have to get all these add ons? Why do I have to do all this extra work and research to make this software awesome? Why cant it all just be there off top when I turn it on?
Does that make sense?
I LOVE blender, but you listing out all the things you have to find, dl, research to me kind of supports my final ranking of it being extremely tedious and having to do a lot of work before the software can just work.
As I said in the video, if you bash your skull hard enough with blender, there is a gorgeous piece of equipment. But even getting there is a pain in the ass because of how many walls there are.
The softwares I ranked higher just work once you turn them on, theres not much extra work to make them great.
A C isnt bad imo
@@elhombrechorizo I guess I understand, I think a difficulty curve might have been better to represent ease of use, but I understand sticking to level grades. I guess I disagree with your take on how software should be, primarily from a learning perspective. I’m guessing you’re coming at this from the perspective of a good animator, but with the same logic if you put a piece of paper in front of someone and asked them to animate with no knowledge of the principles of animation, it would take them way longer than if you gave them a book first. You are in university, but why are you learning if you can smash your head against the wall until it works. I guess I’m just not a fan of CTE, and ignoring the documentation each software provides when talking about ease of use, and how easy it is to find, would have made sense to me. Additionally, you mention things like brushes for other software, and I don’t see much of a difference between that and addons, unless you only talk about brushes included in the software. Though being this divisive with what can and can’t be included isn’t productive for the video, as we could also say that you wouldn’t be able to produce a full color animation with a paper and pencil.
Plus, with Blender being free and many add ons being free, I’m more keen to be in favor of it, particularly when recommending beginners a software to learn. Hence the difficulty curve earlier, it’s intimidating for sure, but if you have an hour to research you can pretty quickly setup a much more user friendly workspace to animate in.
Just some thoughts, thank you for the response. Like I said keep up the great work (and still interested if you’ve heard of/used tvpaint)
Ok flash user, add a new layer and then add your music to the timeline! You can then use the music, cut it, etc. It's very versatile.
Wish I knew how to use Harmony instead of Animate, I cant find tweening and symbol in Harmony.
Have you heard of the software called "Cacani"? It's a 2D animation software with added tools to speed up and semi automate in-between frames, and also the lines you draw can be edited as vectors. I haven't spend much time with it but from what i've seen online its pretty cool.
Oh cool, I think blender has that too
Anything is good except Adobe products, they are overpriced and kinda useless because Krita is Photoshop and Adobe Animate merged.
this guy's a jolly jokey mc-jokester, great video
You described the blender experience so we'll, like no other, LMAO, it's like great, but also I'm aways so lost, I've never been more grateful for RUclips tutorials before I decided to try blender
Someone may have already commented on this, but Aesprite is free if you are willing to compile the source code yourself. Granted, the audience here is primarily artists, not programmers, and even as someone who does a fair bit of coding, it still took me about an hour to figure out how to compile Aesprite for the first time. So, for all intents and purposes, Aesprite is $20 (which may be why you didn't mention the compile-it-yourself option), but I still felt it is worth mentioning.
You forgot to mention Krita. It's got pretty decent raster animation from what I can tell.
Quick question, do I need to first learn how to draw or can I just straight up start with animating.. I’m ass at both btw
You dont need to know how to draw to animate. I have a video giving tips on how to actually learn to animate
I just want to preface this by saying that I'm not an animator, but I have a lot of animator friends that all use Adobe. Adobe is in my opinion the best animation software for beginners, as it has all the tools that are needed to be good, and are all easy to use. The symbol system usually takes some a bit to learn, but after you learn adobe, it is extremely powerful. I find it unfair that you didn't really rank adobe properly, not talking about all the good features it has, like onion skin, editing multiple frames at once, some of the most advanced tweening in animation, camera manipulation, and audio scrubbing. You can also do 3D in adobe, it is very shitty, and no one should use it, but it exists.
Adobe is so easy to understand that even me, as a non animator, knows how to use adobe, and can actually animate in it (to the best of my ability).
The only major downside to adobe is the crashing, however if you don't have many animations open at once, and you dont do something stupid like selecting 1,00 frames and trying to convert them all to keyframes, you should be fine. Even if you crash, though, the auto recovery system is actually pretty ok. It's not perfect, and might turn your entire background red, but it's still there.
You can also import .JSFLs, which are pieces of code that tell adobe to manipulate things on certain frames. For example, shaker is a .JSFL that shakes a selected symbol to a certain amount.
But yeah, all in all, adobe is pretty good when you get the hang of it, and if you're willing to pay $20 a month for it (or just pirate it like the rest of us)
(side note, you inserted the audio wrong. You're supposed to make an audio layer, import the audio into the library, select the audio layer, and then drag the audio onto the stage.)
Yeah the thing is, all the other softwares can do that.
But it doesnt suck.
Or crash.
The major downside to adobe animate is that it still sucks 20 years later.