#For any real animation I would looooveee a real proper program but that's not happening anytime soon I'm afraid

[starlytenight]

Hi, I adore your little animatic videos for your blog, which leads me to ask how do you make them?

Hiya, thanks for enjoying my silly little animatics!

How I do them is hilariously primitive but I don't have any fancy programs. It's straightforward and a little tedious, but managable.

Basically I:

-Pick out an audio I have saved for a rainy day/record something I want to animate to

-Draw out the frames in Clip, save them all individually and usually in order of what is to be placed

-Yeet them all into Video Editor, drag them into the timeline, slap the audio in and then tell the program how long I want a frame to be (like .2/.5/1 frame(s) ect)

-Tweak as I watch how well it goes, then continue on until the thing is smooth as butter (or as smooth as it can be)

-Add any extra frames or remove some if they don't fit anymore

-Save as a video file

-Then slap back into editor to put my name in it (because I've had people in the past share my animatics in the past without my consent, particularly ones I never posted publicly) and then up it goes!

TL;DR very traditional frame-by-frame stuff and then putting it all together in a very crude editor xD

I used to do stuff like this as a kid a lot with MS Paint and Movie Maker so it's not too big of deal for me, haha. It's also pretty chill work since I am sneaky and just modify frames to save me trouble with things small movements.

Though it would be nice to try to fully animate something good and proper, but with my current set up that would be a nightmare. On top of my issues? Heavens, no. Perhaps someday!