JTNAnimator

More very lively rigged animation. It’s all great but check out the stuff around 1:30. It’s very dynamic, everything that rigged animation supposedly “can’t do”. You aren’t just setting a couple of keys and hitting “tween” with this sort of show. youtu.be/70aTFFxIox8?feature…

Here’s another good example of well done rigged animation, done in Moho! I wonder how many of the self proclaimed “animation experts” who claim that rigged animation always “looks inferior” to hand drawn knew how much of this movie was made using rigs. youtu.be/eyvqdcGGing?si=vvaX…

TL:DR: animation using rigs is anything but “automated”, despite what certain “animation experts” may claim. You have to think and work like an animator and use the same exact principles of animation that exist in hand drawn to get good or even halfway decent results.

For rigged animation, you do the same thing. You have to tell the software exactly what you want in order to get good results. You add breakdowns and favors and eases and don’t just accept the crummy first pass result the software gives you. You are still the one in control.

In hand drawn, you would add breakdown drawings and then chart a scene, showing what the timing and spacing should be before it’s handed off to an assistant.

The computer is a terrible inbetweener. It creates linear inbetweens that just take an object from point A to point B. The hand drawn equivalent is handing a scene off to an assistant, with no breakdowns, and telling them to space every drawing evenly. You’d get the same result.