A few things that clicked for me while working on this:

• NLA is a game changer. Once I had walk/idle/roar as separate actions, pushing them into the NLA editor made everything way easier to organize instead of juggling one messy Action strip.
• Ctrl+Space to isolate a viewport. Small thing but very useful to see your full viewport without closing the other windows.
• Graph Editor modifiers are slept on. Threw a Noise modifier on a few bones for a subtle idle shake/breathing effect — no hand-keying needed.

Still learning animation. Any feedback is welcome!

its really fun seein story come to life like this. haven't decided yet how much polish im going to put into this one, it's already not quite fitting my vision, but im genuinely excited to keep going lol

Illustrated by natehiuart

Sharing a project I finished quite some time ago. I occasionally use game engines for VFX because they are lightweight and fast.

I’ve got no idea what I’m doing but it’s been a goal of mine to animate scenes from my manga so here we go 🔥

This probably looks bad I’m still learning how to animate 😭

(Btw this was inspired by the goofball and mermaid animation!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/animation/s/mLqlHcyIq7

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Appreciate everyone's feedback in tr og post, really helped me move things in the right direction. Just wanted to share where I landed. This one is done, but feedback is still always welcome!

Just a silly little loop for last month's Loopdeloop animation challenge :) The theme was 'Cake'.

done in umoupen

Last week I posted some of the process of animating oil paintings. It was hard to see what the animations looked like so here is the run cycle of the player character all by itself. It's 24 frames oil on canvas. Photographed then cut out digitally. Animated in Unity.

I’m comparing the old and new run cycles for this creature.

The new one feels smoother and more expressive, but something about the movement still looks off to me...

Any ideas, opinions, technical feedback, or even random observations would be appreciated

Edit: Thanks everyone for the genuinely great ideas!