How to Create Your First Animated Film

00:00 Intro 0:32 Space date 4 1:13 Idea 1:43 Storyboard 2:57 Animatic 3:48 Concept art 5:20 Recording dialogue 5:46 Rough background 5:49 Rough animation 6:58 Clean background 7:09 Clean animation 7:51 Colour animation 8:01 Background 8:32 Compositing 8:55 Credits 9:26 Sound design 9:53 Outro 10:28 Summary 10:55 Patreon Thank you for this amazing video ❤

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As someone who's making their first animated film at university, thank you for this video 🙇‍♀

Love this. Making a short film felt so daunting until I did a 48 hour one, though this breaks it down into such un-intimidating sections that it feels even easier!

I'm starting my first short animation right now and this video help me a LOT! Thank you. Soon I will come back here to show you my first short animation. I'm very excited!

I just came here after reading an article of how animators are struggling to get right pay from studios. Now after watching your video I can see their perspective very clearly. If such a short film took such a long time and effort, can't imagine how tough it is to make those action animes. Truly amazing work and kudos to all animators for making amazing art. And great explanation on the process.

I frekin love your space date series! And kudos to you for doing all of these literally in your own👏👏👏👏👏

For the free animation programs I recommend Blender. I'm using the Grease pencil option for 2D animation, but you can also mix it with 3D if it's needed. I do most of my concept sketches in Krita because I'm used to raster based sketching since Grease pencil is basically working with vectors/vertices but you could do it all in Blender too(I do this out of habit probably). Krita also has animation workspace but I haven't tried it only because I got used to Blender first. (I have some short animations on my channel all done in Blender (･ω<)☆)

me trying to make my first ever animation: 💀

Great video. You laid out the process in such that it seems so approachable, thank you for that. You mentioned at the end free alternatives for the tools that you used. I would recommend looking for open source tools, as these will often be high quality with a large community, while also being free, so I thought I would just jump in to give some examples. Script: Trelby KIT Scenarist Libre office Concept art: Krita Blender (Grease Pencil) Gimp Animatic / Story Board: Blender + StoryPencil addon Storyboarder Background art: Krita Gimp Animation: OpenToonz, Blender (again) Krita Audio: Audacity for sfx and dialogue Muse score - music LMMS - music Video editing / composition: Blender, (It may surprise you to know that Blender, a primarily 3D modeling tool, has some really good compositing and video editing tools) I really hope that these help. If I've left anything out, please feel free to add to my sugesstions. Thank you again for taking the time to introduce such a complicated topic in such an approachable way.

Thank you for sharing how to create an animated short. It’s wonderful watching a true artist at work.

Thank you so much Jackie! I got lost and overwhelmed easily in the process but watching you wrapping the whole process up really helps a lot trying to grab the whole picture, thank you so much.

Antonio's backgrounds are amazing and your style is faultless. Very informative, I have subscribed straight away and I'm so glad I found your channel.

My short film is called "Rudy & Maggy". It'll be out before June 14th (I'm almost done with it)😅

Thank you for all you share Jackie, always appreciate your art advice!

This actually was very inspiring and informative! The whole process definitely seems less intimidating now ahah❤

This is helpful, I’ve been really looking into doing animation and want do it as a career definitely but I’m always unsure on how or where to start. It’s great that I stumbled across this, thanks.

you are my absolute favorite animation professor

As a self taught animator, this video just simplified the process for me. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your great knowledge and helpful insights with us!! ❤