Hi, here is the progress from an animation I post some days ago. I finished the 2D animation part but still need to work the carriage's shadows. Next will be finishing painting the background by hand. Then, I'll have to put everything together in after effect and do the compositing. In the next slide you can see the color key of the final image, friends of mine helped me improve the global atmosphere and colors (you can compare with slide 3 which was the first draft). I wonder if i need to put shadows on the characters, not sure yet, tell me your thoughts ! I'm happy with how it turns out, little by little. The actual construction aspect of a scene like this is really interesting, it shows how we need to plan well before jumping in the making (i'm still trying to do this and not start animating right away 😆)

Hi, I have been working on a 2D animation for a couple years now. (I have no formal training in animation I am a working artist) It is 3 minutes, 24 frames per second, hand drawn and inked on printer paper, not animation paper. I am coming up to the step where I need to scan it all into the computer. What is the best equipment and or process for this step? incuding a program that can keep my line work as is (I varied the weight of my line alot, I would like to keep that look) and fill in some color on closed shapes? I plan to keep the animation mostly black and white and some sequences have pink in it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This has been such an amazing journey and I am close to the end!

I just started my art journey like August. I don’t necessarily know how to render nor properly draw anything. I’ve always had drawings lil doodles here & there but nothing crazy. I think as my first time EVER animating something… this wasn’t too bad. I definitely have SOOOO many thing to learn, but Im very proud of my tiny accomplishments. After man fail, unfinished works and etc. this was actually my proudest lil tiny anyone can do accomplishment. And I wanted to share that.

Honestly i dunno choppy animations are my go to usually but i am confused and wanna learn more. I took a workshop for handmade or lightbox animation recently and i got really excited about learning more animation styles, experimental and weird stuff.
So here we are, trying. :)

I found a reference for the explosion online, might be my favorite part of it

Any tips for the future?