#Maybe I *should* try out Mine-imator...

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

"Oh boy, I sure am excited to created silly little Minecraft renders with this helpful addon! :D"

The Villager-Model of doom and despair:

[luigra]

Hey MCYTblr!

Have you ever wanted to make an animation but have no drawing or animating skill?

Do you want a good, free and easy reference maker or poser for Minecraft skins, blocks, even worlds?

Do you want custom hats, accessories, blocks, items and much more?

You have stumbled upon Luigra's reccomendation list of Minecraft fan content tools!

All of these are free and have plenty of tutorials! They have been around for a while, and while you may have heard of all of these already, I haven't really noticed that many people in the community make Minecraft content for MCYTs.

Mine-imator

It's a program that allows you to make wallpapers, animations, renders, almost anything you'd like! It has very intuitive interface, and you can pose a skin in any way you'd like, add tons of props, background, and animate everything! While a good 3D animation still takes effort, you may perhaps find it easier if you struggle with 2D animations!

I've also seen a lot of people use Blender, which provides more general 3D options but may also be harder to learn. I haven't used it, but I'm putting this here as a reccomendation as well!

Blockbench

It's a program designed perfect for Minecraft modeling! It has tons of plug-ins, extensive tutorials and easy to use UI. This is where you can make custom resource packs, hats, skins, weapons, any model you want!

It has animation features as well, although those are more geared towards in-game animations! You can also use a plugin to import your models from Blockbench into Mine-imator!

PMC3D/Planet Minecraft Skin Editor

There are plenty of skin editors out there, but in my experience PMC has been the most comfortable and easy one (and it also lets you edit textures of various mobs). I am actually surprised by how few mcyt fanskin makers I see out there, and I think it's a very underrated medium!

If you have an AU or a design for an mcyt, you should definitely make a skin out of that. Especially if you think their skin could use some improvements.

Bonus:

For pixel art, there are plenty of really good programs out there, but if you want a free browser one, what I personally use is Pixilart. Mine-imator doesn't let you export videos as gifs, so for that I use Ezgif. For modeling and improved Mine-imator rigs, you can also use Modelbench. Also they have forums that you can get sooo much helpful resources from!

As well as that, you should also try to create machinimas within Minecraft itself, for which I reccomend getting Blockbuster with FutureMC, and maybe even Emoticons if you'd like!

Hashtag #PutThe"Minecraft"In"MinecraftRoleplay" ✌️