Start making an animation.
You can make crappy animation and have good art.
You can't make good animation with crappy art.
Look for what suits you best.
Start with a storyboard or animatic before doing the animation.
You don't have to, but it's preferred if you want to plan out your animation before doing it.
At 11/30/25 02:53 AM, ZebraHumor wrote:You can make crappy animation and have good art.
You can't make good animation with crappy art.
Preach. My go-to advice for new animators is to get good at art first. Take a year off, don't use Flash, and just learn how to draw better and stuff. Learn colors, simple anatomy, how to draw humans or animals or whatever, because everything else will just follow. It'll look good and you'll feel good.
For the actual animating part, ease in and ease out is your best friend. Seriously. Half the time, if you're clever enough, you don't even need to in-between anything.
