One of the better ways to engage with an audience is by producing short animations to illustrate your message. But animation software is typically hard to use. And they’re usually expensive too. Which ...

Adobe Character Animator is a simple 2D animation studio that allows you to use your webcam to apply your head movements and speech to your puppet, with a few additional tools to help your puppet come ...

From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

More advanced animators will quickly run out of features that are contained within Pencil2D. It may be basic but it will ...

Cartoonist and animator Garry Pye produced a full 2d animated film in two weeks using Cartoon Animator (CTA) and leveraging its tools to craft professional-level animation. Join Pye as he shares his ...

In the previous two posts in this series (part 1 and part 2), we’ve seen how to create a basic 2D platformer using Unity. So far we have a character who responds to keyboard input and touch controls, ...

Toonz, the software used to create Studio Ghibli films like Spirited Away and TV shows like Steven Universe and Futurama, is now OpenToonz. It’s open source and free for any budding animator to ...

Traditionally, 2D animation involved paper and transparent animation cells being photographed frame by frame by a film camera. Like all forms of animation this process is time intensive but it is ...

As the nominees for the animated feature Oscar were unveiled this year, one thing was clear: 2D and 2D-influenced animated films are dominating awards season. Among this year’s nominees, “The Boy and ...

Disney hit “Mary Poppins Returns” not only successfully revisited the iconic look of the 1964 classic, it also brought back old-fashioned pencil-on-paper 2D animation to a Disney feature production.