#was gonna include that snippet too but trying to edit myself so i'll put it in a separate post

[mlobsters]

tenet (2020)

edge is still intact 😏

[dragondawdles]

hey-! this is probably a redundant question, but ever since I saw your part in Amphibia reanimated, i’ve ADORED your art. and while i’m not trying to copy your style, i was in the market for a new drawing tablet, animation program, as well as just general art app. If you’re comfortable with it, would you mind telling me yours? No pressure, and I hope you have a wonderful day/night!

hey thank you thank you no worries!! I don't know how helpful my answers will be but I can for sure tell you what I'm working with as of now!

tablet-wise I'm currently using a wacom intuos, it's really rather solid and affordable Especially if you're on a budget or still testing the waters for digital art but honestly I should probably start looking into an upgrade myself LOL. I'm on my second one currently, my first one broke back in early 2020? I wanna say? due to the usb port on it just outright refusing to work after a year and a half of use and I'm afraid my second one's gonna do that to me too one of these days 😔

for animation I use krita! free, open-source, pretty easy to figure out and mess with; I've been using it since I started using art tablets with the exception of some brief experimentation with gimp that was ultimately fruitless. I WILL say that the animation capabilities are clearly not the program's main focus and it might not work on all computers (it also does not in my experience support audio scrubbing and I had enable drop frames to get the audio to work in general) so. it's a wee bit flimsy and I feel like I put too much strain on it ESPECIALLY for more elaborate multi-shot projects like amphibimate was but! it works for me and for the foreseeable future I'm sticking with it methinks

I used to use krita for general art too, but with my wacom tablet came a license for clip studio paint pro and I love it SOso much; has a steeper learning curve than krita imo but the skill ceiling is so much higher as well. took me a bit to get into the groove but once I did it feels good to use and to paint and draw in and I like the colors/brush systems more. I know clip studio paint ex has specific add-ons for comics/animation but I don't know a whole lot about the technical aspects of either so no thoughts on that. note though that (if you don't luck out and randomly get a license like I did) it does cost money but it is Well worth full price and goes on sale often so keep an eye open! (also I am going to plug the brush I use for pretty much everything because I'm love it)

this isn't a part of what you asked but it's certainly a program I use fairly often so I'll include it anyways; the free version of davinci resolve is a intimidatingly extensive editing program I use for most any video project more complicated than a gif or snippet of animation. some of its more ambitious aspects are locked behind the studio version and I've yet to upgrade to the most current version but with little exception it does everything I ask of it. it's not TOO difficult to figure out but it has the opposite problem I have with krita where. I feel like I'm asking too much of krita right? davinci asks too much of me and my computer JKAGKJDGA the more complicated it is the worse it runs for me and it's doesn't crash consistently enough for me to drop it or complain to the people who work on it but it Does crash enough for me to note that it crashes sometimes. at least for me I could be unlucky but save often regardless Learn from my mistakes,,,,,,,,,,

but yeah hope that helps at least a little bit and good luck figuring that all out! it's the artist that makes the art and not the tools but golly is it easier to put in a nail with a hammer than with a screwdriver