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?
I was thinking how cool a comic would look with some movement created in this manner. It would be a good mix between an actual movie and a graphic novel.
What do you think?
Here is a link to the software.
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.
I love old school 2d animation but if you are a guy who cannot draw or has less time 3d CG is the way to go.
It will help speed up the process and allow you to make more anime and keep a consistent level of quality.
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.
Let us take a look at some animation techniques.
I wanted to share that Studioartfx.com is back with a new format and it is looking good. http://www.studioartfx.com/
I have been a fan of Terrence for many years and he is one of my biggest inspirations in making your own anime. He proved what one man can do and even do quickly. I hope to see more and more articles from him and glean some new stuff from him in my own endeavors.
If you want to learn how to make your own anime this is the guy to watch.
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.
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.
