I'm a 3D Animator looking to practice 2D animation as a hobby and possibly use in my career. What software do you all recommend I invest in? So far, I've looked at Adobe Animate, Toon Boom Harmony, and Synfig Studio.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-make-text-and-vector-art-awesome Go down and wtach the video, you can do some pretty solid things with it. I've tried it myself (it's free btw). But the best alternative for now might be Blender and the grease pencil:…
I found the grease pencil animation in Blender experimental for now, there's very little you can do with it (you have to manually paint in fills, you need to convert it to geometry to be able to render it, for example. It feels like something that was added on top rather than designed from the start for 2D animation). I…