/ani/ - Animation

For some reason all vector based 2d programs makes my lines look like shit.

Do you know about any good, free, non-vector based programs?

I've been using TVPaint, but it feels bad to be a pirate ;_;

>>521

I'd keep TVPaint, other animation software are a bit hard to find. Although my TVPaint keeps crashing on me, it's still a great animation program that breaks you out of vector hell.

You can always try PAP (Plastic Animation Paper) it's non-vectored and free to download.

The only catch is that it's a bit outdated so some of the components there are a bit unnecessary.

I've been testing Easytoon, another free animation software but it's extremely outdated and can make at maximum 1028x1028 canvas' in black and white.

It's shit.

>>524

Thanks!

PAP is really cool - it's the best alternative to TVPaint that I tried. Indeed it is a bit outdated (it doesn't detect pressure from my cheap tablet), but at least I don't have to read manual to make a bouncing ball.

I'll take your advise and stick to TVPaint. Thanks again.

They use paintman you fuckin casuals.

has anyone tried hanepen? it looks neet but idk if it's worth upgrading osx for

http://3dnchu.com/archives/hanepen-beta/

>>573

>moonrunes

I'm too much of a casual for this shit.

Does anyone use any libre software? Like Krita for example?

>>613

huh, you can use Krita for animation?

>>614

Not yet, but they're heading in that direction.

https://krita.org/item/performance-and-animation-and-more-join-kritas-2015-kickstarter-project/

> This year, we’re going for two ambitious goals. The first is raw, interactive performance. Painting on a big canvas, with a big brush, with textures and gradients. Krita should become as fast as (dare we say it?) Photoshop! We’ve already gotten a proof of concept working, but it needs a lot of work deep down in the core of Krita’s code. As a result, Krita should also become much more memory-efficient.

> We also learned our lesson from the previous three animation plugin projects: if we want Krita to support traditional hand-drawn animation, we need to put animation right at the core. Not so coincidentally, that’s exactly the same place where we need to work to make Krita’s painting performance outstanding.

>>615

Neat. Hopefully it functions well.

>>613

I've dabbled in doing 2D stuff with Blender.

The sad thing is that Blender is so painfully close to being a viable 2D solution, because you can scrub audio and even do something akin to traditional animation with the grease pencil.

I've been looking into maybe making a script/plug-in/add-on/what-have-you that would add the necessary functionality. I'm just not convinced it's entirely possible, because from all I see, scripting in Blender kinda just boils down to glorified macros to easily make shapes and stuff. I don't know how ambitious one can get with the scripting, essentially.