04-12-2025, 08:40 AM
(04-12-2025, 12:50 AM)ZorbTheOrb Wrote: I don't know if they're still doing deals, but if you happen to catch it, you can get Moho Animation from lostmarble for like $25. I haven't played around with it much myself yet, however this is like Toonboom/TVPaint/Adobe Animate on an actual budget and not some underbaked feature from Krita or Photoshop animate. Timeline editor, 2D rig support for faster production, other shit I'm sure comes with typical video editing. Worth looking into since the free options out there aren't looking too great imo.
That looks good! Al tough i godda check whats the difference between the debutl and pro options. Thanks a lot for the information, Zorb!
And yeah, the free options out there arent that good. I used Krita for zigle zogle and it was a bit of an ass to use. I did try to animate the animation into three small parts, but it still lagged. It also had another animation docker, which allowed you to slowly fade objects or smoothly move them from A to B (like how you would do in an editing program), but again it would just add onto the lag. For Daisy's Diary, i had plans to use Krita to make a bunch of small animation cycles and then stitch them with the backgrounds and music in Kdenlive. Krita is just not designed for short animation films for now.
I saw some other programs, but they were really basic. I guess they are too complex and time consuming for an open source environment. Either that or people just havent gotten to it.
But the most i despise is that a lot of programs are subscription based. ToonBoom will cost you the equivalent of a new descent PC per year. This is very unfriendly for people who either do it for a hobby or are trying to get into the industry (ive seen some job applications wanting you to own such a program).