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.
Okay I’ve been into UE4 for some time. I wanted to share with you this really awesome video showing you step by step how to animate a scene.
While UE4 is for making games its built in Sequencer could be used to Render and create great looking animations for you. I’ve spoke about this in the past but here is a more in depth tutorial.
If you want to make something that resembles GANTZ I could see combining UE4 for rendering with DAZ and Poser for animation and characters.
https://youtu.be/FUc49HYJeL0
Also a really interesting idea is to make a 3d VR anime film. That would be awesome.
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.
Let us get back to Rotoscoping.
Here is a fun one on using Pixel Art. Would anyone watch a Pixel art anime?
Get some friends, dress them up and green screen them.
Well the best part of your anime next to story is good character design. Here are some tips for your own personal anime.
Here is the design behind one of the newest and latest greatest character.
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 some inspiration. You know when creating a story feel free to think outside the box and created something new.
I cannot say how much this quick animation inspired me. Just wanted to share it.
What inspires you?
You guys remember that quote? If you do you are probably 40. 
I’m not here to dig up the past nostalgia, I’m actually here to share more ideas on animation that might help you.
Going back to cut out animation. I know some folks hate to think of doing a series or movie that way but really it can add style, be fast and be beautiful.
Check out what you can do.
Here is a great little tutorial that shows you what you can do.
The software used is called SPINE. I think most animation software has some form of this type of animation but I really like how this one looks and moves. It is made for this very specific task and it does it well.
Check out who uses this method.
They do stuff like this using this cutout method.
Go for it. Cut out animation is not evil.
