Any backgrounds in 2D animation?

[akitsukino]

Pretty straight forward question here. I've noticed a lot of 2D animation grads turn to comics one way or another. I just finished a little project and I can't tell if I think 2D animation is more or equally as time consuming as comic making. Just asking your opinions. Have you ever done 2d animation for yourself or for school? What did you like about it? What didn't you like about it? Were you self taught or formally trained? Any future plans for / with 2D animation? Let me know below!

[droidmonkey1]

As some one that play with both, it all depends. I'm no expert or professional in any way, but I gather a small insight.
both are time consuming, but it all depends of the type of work you do and your process,

[nekhcore]

Animation, in essence, is just drawing. A lot. Sometimes the same thing, over and over, with only slight differences. I'm self-taught with some small background in flipnote animation (Nintendo DSi/3DS app) and it is a lot more time consuming than comics, in my opinion. If you take one page in your comic and want to animate it, you will have to simplify your style, or at least your shading and coloring, if you want to not spend months on it. They probably turn to comics because drawing comics is kind of like storyboards or keyframes, you can say the same thing with significantly less work, though it won't look as amazing as it would animated. (Ofc that depends on the comic, there's one here that I think would actually be worse off than the comic if animated)

I plan on majoring in 2d animation for the moment.

[indagold]

I majored in 3D animation and practiced 2D on the side and currently trying to turn it into my career. Its just horribly time consuming and stressful so I limit how much I do it (literally most animators are the same, less animating, the better). I don't do hand drawn (I can I just don't want to), more tweening and other forms in after effects which luckily is becoming a more viable option professionally. I prefer comics as my downtime hobby as its an easier and less stressful medium to tell a story through. I do NOT want to make an animated movie alone unlike which most film/animators strive for, i'd go mental unless someone was willing to shill out a few big bucks I might consider

[feardeer]

I've done 2D and 3D animation, some for school and some for personal projects. I prefer drawn, frame by frame animation over all other forms. 3D can be fun if you've got a good rig to work with though, but this isn't about 3D, oops. I would say that, generally, animation is vastly more time consuming than comics, unless each panel of your comic is a fully rendered 8 hour digital painting I guess, haha. Translating a 3 page action sequence to animation is an extremely laborious process. That said, watching your work come to life is very satisfying.

I enjoy both comics and animation, but I find that comics are much more approachable. I have to really buckle down to animate something, be prepared for the slog. Comics, I can work on bit by bit and still feel like I'm making good progress. I still plan to do both, moving forward.

[SteamTK]

I'm currently an animation student at a university, about a year away from graduating with a BFA in animation. I have to say, I started making comics long before I decided to become an animator, and was part of what pushed me towards animation in the first place. I think both are very time consuming endeavors, but the end result is often worth the time and effort put into it.

[Spikings]

I used to work on a mobile game in the games industry for a few years as an artist, but the role covered a lot of things including 2d animation (the vector flash kind).

Nowadays I'm a full-time freelancer which, among other things, covers two comics I'm putting out on Tapas weekly. One of them does contain the odd bit of animation, the other will do soon! I find making the comics themselves is waaayy more time-consuming than the animating though, partly because I'm never too adventurous with the animating. xD
Also when I was in the game industry, I spent my days endlessly finding ways to cut down the time spent on my work, so I could get things done faster and more efficiently, etc. Animation definitely came into that, and so what took a day to complete three years ago now takes a couple of hours.

Which is why it's fun to spend the extra unnecessary time on animating comic pages when it suits the story to surprise my readers. >

[RaptagonStudios]

We are using 2D animation for our tie in video game, and we want to create some 2D animated scenes. I would say it is a fun, medium to work with, but I am also using a program called dragon bones which is a little bit different than traditional animation. I would love to see your project if you are willing to share!

[Im_moron]

for animating with backgrounds, honestly, in general, only draw backgrounds in your comic IF it's necissary, especially if you think its necissary to draw a heavily detailed comic if the time calls for it...

also all the 2d animation schooling I did is mostly self taught and watching things frame by frame and see how that feels when things move the way they do...

[AnakngTinapay]

◇ Have you ever done 2d animation for yourself or for school?
◆ For myself only.

◇ What did you like about it? What didn't you like about it?
◆ Looks nice, that's all bout it.
◆ I don't like the "auto-tweening" movements (ie: flash) so I do traditional frame by frame. The hard part is the coloring and shading.

◇ Were you self taught or formally trained?
◆ Self-taught. Just an amateur. I'm really avoiding large movements. Still don't know a lot of animation basics.

◇ Any future plans for / with 2D animation?
◆ None.

[KrispyKremeBits]

Both can be super time consuming but it depends on the amount of animation or inking is involved. As for me, I'm a visual development artist who can 2D animate