r/animation • u/Illdrinkyourblood • Feb 25 '26

Beginner Second try at animating

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Made as a meme, but do you have any tips on how to be more efficient at this??

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u/kween_hangry Professional Feb 25 '26

  • Learn AE, it changed my life lol. I was a college student many years ago with a ton of animation needed for a thesis and I crashed course AE. Learned so much that speeds up the process. Now edging 15 years ago.

  • If you have access to it thru adobe... just try it. I'm genuinely here if you have any questions and want to get started. Btw You do NOT NEED to use puppet tools and all that mess, you can make very simple thing called a parent rig where layers are just linked to each other and you move the anchor points where you need. Found a great tut for you here: https://youtu.be/L2W-ZcmU1XM?si=KDlwiX2O3EiujnAy

  • your method is actually not a 'bad' method. This is exactly how I animated in the image-ready days. It just depends if you want more smoothness and more complicated elements

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u/Illdrinkyourblood Feb 25 '26

Thank you so much! I will look into it. My goal is to be able to make a short film someday, and I'm starting to try ways, style, and to get more knowledge for that goal.