I want to make an anime opening in Adobe Animate?

[GamerPrincessXI]

How do I start? Should I hand draw it out and then animate? Should I just go straight to animation? Ahhhhh, what music should I use?

[magnavarra]

mostly animation starts with storyboard .. drop some thumbnails to timeline and figure out your timing - you can add music at this step depending on time. and edit this sequence to match music or some major beats at least . then draw keyframes. then add inbetween for smooth animation. anime is mostly 12 fps which is faster to draw.

[GamerPrincessXI]

Thank you!

[magnavarra]

as for music there are a lot of free tracks in the web and some people who can write one for you, like on fiverr . You cant use copirighted music because youtube will ban your video or turn the sound off and put some mozart instead

[GamerPrincessXI]

Cool, good to know. Ironically I work in 8 fps.

[magnavarra]

8 ro 10 is also ok. Even stillframe storyboards made by pixar are fun to watch. 12 is kinda meta tv format

[GamerPrincessXI]

Do you know how to animate?

[magnavarra]

yes i have studied 2d classic animation and 3d animation at university, but I don't do it . It is very time consuming. animating one shot took me about 2 month... But I occasionally watch some animation tutorials on youtube cause you can use their hints to make comics)

[GamerPrincessXI]

Wow........that's what my friend did. I wanted to go into animation but my dad thought it wasn't profitable.

[magnavarra]

It's not profitable at all. You can check out sakuga blog site to see how sad is the condition of anime studios in japan. they are constanly out of budget and lay off their staff. some studios are even closing in the middle of the season.
there are some big names ofcource but it's hard to get there.
Netflix and crunchyroll are making their exlusive shows but there are not so many.
3d animation is more trendy and even anime tend to use it nowadays. Being a 3d animator you can also work in gamedevelopment . 2d games are also made but they are less

As for me animation background lets me work in game development with good understanding of character movement and dynamic i am making visual effects in realtime engines, developing player's and monsters' special powers

[GamerPrincessXI]

Cooooooooooool, do you like making videogames?

[magnavarra]

Yes =) I am working for 10 years for now and we have made 2 games lol
It's hard but fun

[GamerPrincessXI]

I actually wanted to make a video game, too. but programming isn't my strong suit.

[magnavarra]

Nowadays there are ways to make games whithout programming, and programmers are just a small group of people who make games imean there are designers, gamedesigners, concept artist, ui artist , ux designers, level designers, light artist, aniamtors, riggers. qa engineers, screenwriters , technical artists, vfx artist, support operators, producers, marketing dudes, directors, i believe i forgot someone,,,
visual scripting supported by most engines right now and is relatively easy to do compared with coding. And those engines are free to use.
there is quite a few games made by one man, I believe you know that crazy guy who shut himnself for 5 years to make stardew valley, pity to his wife...

[GamerPrincessXI]

Wow 5 years is a long time. Also, I wanna make a city building game simliar to this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kairosoft.android.miniature_en&referrer=utm_source%3Dkairopark%26utm_medium%3Dhouse_ad%26utm_campaign%3Dtext

but with better graphics and less ads for Android and no in-app purchases.

[magnavarra]

well thta's a clear direction, casual mobile games are very popular and is relatively fast, There are a lot of indie developers in each country and most studios do use freelancers worldwide.

[GamerPrincessXI]

Well, I want to include customized characters and dating and marriage and continuing as the kids. Did I mention it's going be a futuristic city builder with robots and flying cars?

[GamerPrincessXI]

@magnavarra The reason why I want to make the anime opening in the first place is because this guy, Narmak created Parody Anime Openings for Spongebob Sqaurepants. lol! I found them, funny and inspirational since he did it by himself and used Adobe Animate to do it. That's kinda why I wanna push my self to do it too. but for my own characters.

[CrashTako]

It depends on what you'd like.

Animation:
Storyboards are essential for having a basic plan. They do not need to be advanced or detailed drawings, just sketches with notes at the side. After that - you could do an animatic , to get an understanding of the animation. Then you do the base animation - the key frames, which are the most essential points of movement. Following that, you fill in the frames between. Then you do the linework and colour, then put a background behind it.
Anime tends to animate at 24fps or 12 fps depending on the studio. And for high resolution in the animation, I recommend using a 1080 x 1920 sized canvas.

Music:
You could create your own song - if you aren't specialised in music, you can ask for help from places like fiver or for volunteers, casting call club. If you want to use other songs, make sure you credit the artists.

Good luck!!!

[GamerPrincessXI]

Thank you so much!!!!