Blenderholic: 2D animation tutorial

I made this quick tutorial to show people how easy it can be to animate a 2D character in blender using key frames and armatures. I am working on another tutorial that goes into much higher levels of detail for a smoother sequence.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 2D animation tutorial
• Blender
• tutorial
• animation
• cartoon animation
• make a cartoon
• person walking animation
• walkthrough

[crewifyable]

I HATE NOTEPADS !

[er0c13]

@crewifyable

I hate maxipads, you don't see me broadcasting it

[crewifyable]

@er0c13 hey do you have a sculpting tutorial on the Human head?

[er0c13]

@crewifyable

not at the moment, I can throw a quick one together though. Are you experienced at all with the sculpt tool?

[Fantasmo81]

Can i import an illustrator character, putting bones on it and would the paths then be flexible e.g. when i move the arm? Could I also use a image and put bones on it and then doing animation in a way like "squeezing an scaling" the image.

Actually I am thinking wether buying anime studio would be great or better taking blender and then practising all blender 2d features... can Blender do what anime studio can? I want to avoid learning two softwares.

[er0c13]

@Fantasmo81 - It's hard to import illustrator to blender. I find its easier to import them into toonboom using the skeleton element. You can always import the illustrator image as a plane to blender, then use a skeleton bone over the image by assigning the weight to each bone individually.

[crewifyable]

@er0c13 I have tried it a few times but, that was a while ago, i just accidentally happen to make a goblin from experimenting with the sculpt tool.

[kick3n3mini]

@Fantasmo81 get anime studio it's so easy and fun to use, but if you don't believe me then get the free trial but you posted this 2 months ago so something probably happened. Oh and get the pro version if you want to make animations as long as you want.

[777trekker]

@er0c13 Thanks for the tutorial! This is what I was looking for, still trying to figure out where I should invest my time, Anime Studio Pro, ToonBoom, or Blender in 2d.

Great channel! Checking out your other cool stuff!

[Fantasmo81]

@er0c13

But it would not work like Anime Studio, that an Illustrator path gets short or longer, e.g. at the elbow, when I move the arm? It probably only works to import single body parts but not a complete character made of illustrator paths (i mean an imported illustrator path will probably turn into an image inside blender and will not stay a path?)?

I believe Toon Boom is very exepenisve, isn't it?! Too much for me...