To be honest if I am going to make an anime on a lower budget….I have to use CG. It just will not work be a no-man to low-man team and do this all by hand. CG is where I personally feel I need to go to bring speed and quality.
How forgiving are you of 3d anime if it has a good story?
Terrence Walker is a great inspiration for me and he is putting out his training videos at a good, cheap price.
I thought this was a great tutorial. It shows how to use 3d reference to make an actual 2d animation. If you have a hard time drawing this might be the way to do things if you want to do 2d.
Here is if you want to do more manga still frame comics
When writing your manga, animation, anime, comic, etc you really need to hook people from the beginning. I found this awesome videos showing you how you need to hook folks in from the start.
Here is a great master at work. I love how he does backgrounds and for those who are not the best artists this should help.
Yeah I know this is not the best animation you will find but break it down and think of the possibilites.
This man made a feature length movie in 5 months. Imagine taking a year, sprucing up the models and modeling. It is quite possible to make something awesome in less than a year.
I love this dude. Seriously I really love watching this dude work and the stuff he makes. He has an awesome style.
Someone give him money to make a movie or something.
I think there are ways around it by using 3d or CG type stuff but personally to do these awesome 2d things I think you need some skill in drawing. You be the judge.
Here is how to integrate 2d and 3d.
I really love this method and think for even folks who cannot draw very well you could do something like this.
Let us talk about something cool. The art behind the character design in Gurren Lagan one of my favorite anime’s of all time!
