Guys, while I would love to give thoughts on other softwares, I cant do that because I havent used them. That doesnt mean they arent valid options or your doing something wrong! Its just means I literally cant give any thoughts on it because I have literally never used it in my life and quite frankly nor do I plan to :p Pls understand, im a human with only so much time, Im working on a short film, I cant really learn a new software in a week and give a valid review; id need about 6 months lmao So if youre wondering why something isnt on the list, its because I quite literally havent used it

Blender has a search feature I use often while modelling, it speeds up learning a lot if you know the terminology

Blender is like...the swiss army knife of digital art. It can do EVERYTHING and all of it at least decently. The price is your soul tho.

Got into PC animating for the "first" time a few months ago in 2022 and my biggest weakness was finding the best software for me, it's either too laggy, too complicated, or I have to sell one healthy young family member a month to pay for it. I've looked on many articles and videos from talented trusted artists for HUNDREDS of days and this *single* video somehow taught me better than all of them. Fucking awesome 👍🏾

If you're both computer graphic programmer and an artist, then blender is like revelation from god

paper stability I'd say is A-S Tier, I've never had it disappear on its own yet, usually it was user error (dropped in a puddle)

To be fair, Blender is a tool made for professionals. You're supposed to already know 3d modeling to use blender, or at least the terminology and workflow, because it is very similar to Maya.

As a Flash animator, I gotta point this out. If you wanna drag sounds onto the timeline, you gotta have a keyframe, and also extend it so the sound can play. It won't make the frames automatically xD. Aside from that... Everything else is pretty spot on, very much enjoyed this video!

Im only 1 minute in and i feel i have gotten enough information to last me the rest of my life

As a 3D animator in blender, I don't need these videos at all, but seeing this style and how truly genuine you are is refreshing as hell. Keep it up!

Is there gonna be more parts? This is a BANGER of unexplainable proportions, even for someone who has no business with any of these softwares but still loves animation (im the after effects guy 🥂).

roblox studio

Great video with awesome info. I usually use blender since I'm already aware of its 3d aspects and the grease pencil gets better the more time you spend with it.

Man, I was expecting you to have at least hundreds of thousands of subscribers with a video of this quality. I hope this video and your channel blows up more cause this was a really fun watch and I can't wait to see what you make in the future

Just made it through the Aseprite segment and I'd like to share some thoughts as a long-time aseprite user. - There is supposed to be an audio track feature in an update in the future, not sure how near that may be. - If you accidentally export a PNG from illustrator at like 10,000 pixels and open it with aseprite, you're gonna have a bad time. But It really won't crash unless you're working on a gigantic canvas. - There's a great community around aseprite and a lot of people make and share scripts to help with niche functionality which is handy. One of which that's great for game dev is Adam C Younis' script that exports tagged frames to their own sprite sheets. I am definitely biased toward aseprite but I need a higher-res animation software that isn't photoshop so now I shall continue watching this video. Thank you for this video.

Even though I'm currently dead set on Blender, I still sat through the whole video simply because it was so enjoyable. Mad props dude.

BRO WHY DON'T YOU HAVE MORE SUBSCRIBERS?! Anyways, you're really great! Your videos are funny and well structured and I like the way you review stuff. This really puts stuff in a new light and helps me decide what I would want to use to animate. Thanks a lot man!

As someone who's used Blender for over three years: You hit the nail on the head. Blender has so many amazing features and abilities that allow you to do anything you want to do in the program. But that is both a positive and a negative, since it also means that you're drowning in features that unless you follow tutorials that are specific to a thing you want to learn, you'll probably get overwhelmed because you don't know where to go with it. To this day, I can't do 2D animation in Blender, because I can't find a good tutorial series for the 2D workflow, so I just use it for 3D. Ironically, I'm using an older version of Flash/Animate for whenever I try doing 2D, but I'm also exploring the idea of OpenToonz, as it's free, open source, and has both Vector AND Raster options. I probably won't use Harmony, CSP, nor the modern version of Animate anytime soon, as I'm broke AF, and in terms of subscription-based software, I hate it to the very core, so I'm always looking for alternatives.

This is the video I have been trying to find, thank you so much! Top Tier video! Only heartbreaking to see how power hungry harmony is o.O

Just wanna let you know man, I completely thought that you were some massive youtuber, as the video quality and the flow of everything felt so perfect. Keep going man, we'll all watch with baited breath to see where you will end up.

This be the most useful video I've ever watched. So much thought in it thankyou chorizofather

This is the best video on KZfaq. You are a legend for using that Streets of Rage 3 track. I didn't know Animate was that bad tbh, but yeah...I can see it lol Good video man, damn good.

In a weird way I'm kinda happy to hear that Blender is super confusing to learn. I learned it to get into 3D animation and though that maybe I was being a little slow understanding things as little as I did, but glad to see that just a general experience lol. and yeah learning it was turning me off it so many times

thank you for letting me know what to expect from blender

Adobe animate does have audio scrubbing, you just have to make a new layer and import in to stage lol. The software is honestly pretty ok other than the fact that you can barely use different brushes without it crashing, coloring is a little tough but there are some features that literally color multiple frames at once, (if you are using fill), and exporting with audio in the stage lowers the quality quite a bit but you should be using the original wav or mp3 files for the final animation anyway.

thanks. I found your video helpful. I've been on the fence with blender for years and I think I will finally dive in

I subbed so I can say I was here when you were at 1.1k subscribers haha Also really love that you included Flipnote Studio and Aseprite lol. Love those programs despite not being as popular for animation than the other ones. Especially Flipnote, I remember using that back in the DSi days.

The description of using Blender was brutal, but so true. Totally agree. I have wanted so much to like Blender ,but I just always end up feeling like I am beating my head against the wall trying to use it. If anyone ever figures out how to streamline the user interface of Blender it could be great, but for now, I’d say no thanks I’ve got better things to spend my time on.

This video was really informative man ! thanks and that explanation on blender tools was hilarious

As someone who spent the day trying to learn animation and Blender at the same time... Your mansion analogy hit me in my soul. Too accurate!

This is a really good video! Nice work!!!

Yo that intro was EPIC!🔥🤘🔥

23:30 Honestly it was all worth it. The editing is so godly and crunchy.

Clip Studio Paint is becoming basically a subscription now

Just subbed for that intro. Great video 💯

you just earned a sub today! it’s so entertaining and make me want to try those thing!

Having used blender for at least 7 years and being fairly comfortable with it, hearing my friend asks if blender is free and if it works on their operating system felt like I was one of the mentors in the hunger games

Fun fact about Animate as an Animate user: You CAN add audio to the timeline, you just have to drag it to the actual canvas and not the timeline, and then manually create the amount of frames needed for the audio, which still kinda sucks but hey, whatever, you still have audio.

Applause, applause. Excellent presentation.

Thank you! 🙏

Homie, you can throw audio in both Adobe Animate & Csp! It can be a bit of hassle sometimes. I forgot what version of animate i used but it would only let me use mp3 files for some reason😅However, i think that problem has been fixed. I've been trying to learn after effects and low-key it's been making me wanna bash my own head, lol. I use it more for "moving graphics" than "traditional animation". The major reason I use CSP is for the vector brushes. Compared to the vector brushes in adobe illustrator/animate, CSP has vector brushes that look like "traditional" art tools such as (pencil, chalk, etc.) The "cleanliness" of vector tools/ animation is great! Although i prefer that "texture" traditional animation has and CSP is a nice happy medium ! I don't have to sacrifice quality ! Great video btw 💛

10:08 Although I had similar problems with clip studio when I started animating, after I understood it it became my favorite version. The timeline just directly showing you what is drawn on each frame can make it substantially easier to navigate through than other animation software where you have a dot or a cell as an indicator. The files that spawn on the right when you make a new layer are overwhelming at the start, but again, are super useful comparatively. you can organize much easier and shift around the orientation much easier as well.

The beginning hits hard especially after you literally just built a rig that can handle it all and you are ready to start your journey of content creation.

You described the blender experience so we'll, like no other, LMAO, it's like great, but also I'm aways so lost, I've never been more grateful for KZfaq tutorials before I decided to try blender

I worked in animate for 8+ years as a professional animator (my avatar is me sitting in my cintiq box lol). There are things I genuinely enjoyed about it, mostly how good it is at utilizing loops and embedded animation, with different functions depending if it was for web or broadcast animation I recently got back into animation, and jumped back into animate, because I’m so familiar with it. Had to do an animation in 4k and EXR colours, and animate just DOES NOT DO THAT (tho it is nice to animate at 50% and just scale it in AE) Thank you for this list. I’m trying to figure out which direction I want to go, and this gives me a decent idea of what I may want to try :)

"Only the most bearable" so true

I just use FlipaClip it’s pretty straight forward, draw something, new frame, draw something, new frame, it really keeps you going

This is a great video, i personally use CSP and blender. the learning curve is definitely their but quality and over time saving you an get by having a complete backdrop in infinite perspectives is great. I'm considering other software that allow 2d puppets like moho, which I think is a one time payment

if tv paint was in this video id probably find it easy to choose between krita, harmony and tv paint as my main platforms to animate on. but this is a great video overall for helping me try to make up my mind with what i want/dont want to use later in my life

15:30 you just drag into the blank space of the timeline and done the audio is there

finally a KZfaq animator that actually tells his fans what software to use, i would love to see you do a video editor tier list next

imo CSP deserves a higher tier. It's a bit clunky at first but it's VERY easy once you get where stuff is. I started at flipnote on DSi, then Harmony then CSP and I'm not sure I'd go back to harmony. CSP just has so many tools for everything easily accessible. You can use vector brushes to work very similarly to Harmony, the paint bucket is perfect for coloring animations with the ability to go a bit over. You can draw everything in black and then choose the colors with the layer color feature. It has keyframes, auto actions, batch import, 3D, amazing custom brushes etc etc. I would suggest changing some hotkeys though, I have the , and . keys as previous and next keyframe because I found it very useful in Harmony, I also added an auto action to the / key create a duplicate of the current layer in the next one since I also remembered using something similar on Harmony. Harmony is good, but the drawing in CSP is unbeatable.

YO WTF, this video kept me up and didnt even feel like it was a 24 minute video and to top it off YOU ONLY HAVE 900 some SUBS??!!!? nah wtf man WTF. Great job. great fucking job

give this man the subs he deserves

This is amazing

Thank the youtube algorhithm for bringing me to an actually useful video! Lovely voice work and head bashing 10/10

Have you heard of the software called "Cacani"? It's a 2D animation software with added tools to speed up and semi automate in-between frames, and also the lines you draw can be edited as vectors. I haven't spend much time with it but from what i've seen online its pretty cool.

Really good video

flash didnt deserve that 😞 all u have to do is drag it to the stage, not the timeline goof💀

Wish I knew how to use Harmony instead of Animate, I cant find tweening and symbol in Harmony.

10:09 I mostly use CSP for making comics or illustrations, but I do have the animation process on there very streamlined... first of all, I have the thumbnails nonexistent in the timeline. And then, I have my auto-action for duplicating cells (which can be a hassle depending on what layer you're selecting.) And then there's audio, I've found that importing .wav files was the only way I could get the audio to sync up without having to render it when I want to preview it (I think it's good for syncing up actions with music more than lip-syncing.) Finally, my favorite feature is that instead of a normal raster layer for the cell you can make it into a folder containing multiple layers, then just duplicate that layer for each cell... and it's a pretty cool process, I think. Just wanted to share my process on making the software easier... loved the video!

Would like to step in and also bring Krita to the spotlight! It's a completely free drawing software, gets updated... every once in a while, coloring lineart is easy thanks to its colorize mask feature, rarely has crashed on me for one, and of course has an animation mode that in my experience is not very hard to use (audio scrubbing kinda janky on my pc tho) and does both frame-by-frame *and* tweening! And when you open it you're greeted with a cute squirrel girl. What else could you ask for (/j)

You can drag audio in the timeline of adobe animate, but you need to draw it in to the canvas, then it appears in the timeline, then you can chose if what kind of play you need to the audio, you can even autolipsinc characters with it

Great info learnt so much Thanks 🙏

GREAT VIDEO, thank u sm for making it, I learned stuff woo hoo

i managed to make an animated music video in clip studio. the difficulty curve was insane like wtf. (especially since i was on a time limit)but i managed thanks to a really good tutorials that basically thought me the animation ui and stuff :> and yeah it turned out pretty well! I also know how to import images and stuff without fucking up the timeline so that's nice. imo i would have it as at least an a tier. krita is my ride or die for drawing softwares so yeah. krita has come up with some really cool animation updates too! like being able to make storyboards in the software. but the music scrubbing is still pain ;w; Harmony sounds really nice especially for the sound scrubbing but i have no money to pay every month. so krita and clip are fine for me. especially since i am still practicing so yeah idk. it's pretty good. also clip never crashed for me when i was animating. ;w;

seeing everyone talks about the complexity of the blender made me feel relieved. thank god I thought I was just stupid

Great video! Fun fact though, you actually can do audio scrubbing in CSP. Something that stumbled across the other day while using it.

In case anyone's curious about Photoshop's animation tool, It's so barebones in shortcuts, that it's basically paper animation with the perks of digital art. It's simple to use, any brush and adjustment Ps has can be used there, but all layers are shared between frames (so it's essentially 1 layer per different frame), but making folders helps a bit. Changing time is a bit akward. Exporting is ok, works for mp4, gif, or images. No audio related things at all, but you can technically use the effects and adjustment for post production. I've used it a lot for smaller loops and animatics, it's pretty good and fast for that. Sending it to any video editing software later complements what it lachs well (It's mainly DaVinci Resolve for me, free and great). To reference, Hollow Knight sprites were made in Ps.

great video! for me, beginner in animation, it helps a lot

As someone who is learning Grease Pencil in Blender, Your criticisms hurt... But they were spot on and fair...

This video is the magnum opus of guides

started animation with 3d stuff, so natually of all of the ones listed in this video you can tell where I ended up. I do tend to follow a brute force technique when learning things, instead of doing it the "proper" way and following tutorials. Granted, I feel like this has worked better for me as I have really quickly learned the stuff I absolutely need. However, I find I constantly need to keep a notes file open at all times just to keep track of everything and also have a quick link to any guides I may need for less frequently used features.

Really helpful, I was planning on getting better at clip studios, but I'm not familiar with it enough for me to justify learning it completely for it not to be my main driver in anything. I want to just be able to learn the principals of animation, flipnote was super easy for me as a kid, why not now as an adult.

Thank you, Chorizo. that video is really help me. + One subscriber!

That's a great video !

ok so as a adobe animator myself i dont use it anymore BUT- here r my thoughts on adobe animate/flash the subscription is pretty expensive 4 what u get bc adobe animate rlly isnt that good (in my opinion) i used it for fnf sprites thats why i liked it a bit the rest of the stuff was hard to use the onion (idk if i spelt that right) was off cuz when i drew and then turned on the onion it would kinda break bc the two colours wouldnt go to the frame ahead to thats why i didnt do frame by frame animation and only did the motion one next one is the drawing, the pen is pretty good for the stabilization and outlining but they could of added more pens to it except the default pen so its pretty bad but kinda good the audio, i agree about what u said about it, if adobe made updates and included that one i would buy it again (also the way u put in the audio is by getting the mp3 etc u put it on the menu where u entered it then make a new layer go to object or frame i cant remember then go to the audio settings i think then put one of the audio things on stream then drag it down to the layer ur audio is on after that u have to drag a frame then u will the the orange audio) i think i might be wrong so pls correct me if i did. but it would be WAY better + easier for only dragging the audio from the player onto there instead of having to do all of that just to get one audio anyways my rating on adobe animate/flash is a decent 6.9/10

Someone may have already commented on this, but Aesprite is free if you are willing to compile the source code yourself. Granted, the audience here is primarily artists, not programmers, and even as someone who does a fair bit of coding, it still took me about an hour to figure out how to compile Aesprite for the first time. So, for all intents and purposes, Aesprite is $20 (which may be why you didn't mention the compile-it-yourself option), but I still felt it is worth mentioning.

Great video bro

OK, I haven’t watch the video yet but I wanted to leave this comment before I forget. Dang! That intro slaps!

this, is a good video indeed, thank you El Hombre Chorizo

Finally, THANK YOU, now i don't need to use Scratch for animating

💝 Great work. You describe my experience with each of these programs to a T.

My first attempt at animation has been with blender (cuz I'm poor and don't know how to draw) and I learned 2 things 1) If I add more than 1 object it will seem like I am in slow motion and it phisically pains me every time it studders and goes all the way to the other side of the object when it is really close up 2) it is pretty easy to learn once you kinda understand the fundamentals of it (I made a desk without a tutorial yayyy) like really, if you understand youtube tutorials really well you will be making roblox looking models the same day

this feels like a multi-million subscriber channel type content, i luv your vids and hope you reach among the top creators of this genre of art video essays. good luck!

Banger Video

Ok flash user, add a new layer and then add your music to the timeline! You can then use the music, cut it, etc. It's very versatile.

Ive been using animate since 9th grade! You can get audio, you drag it in, and it's on that layer :D You just need to asd frames you can also scrub the audio as well.

ACCURATE

I've only ever had blender crash if I use a modifier on a mesh I 100% knew it would just die on. Even when it crashes the autosaves are so frwquent I never lose more than 2 minutes of work... 9/10

Got TV paint. I bought it because I’ve heard great things but also it’s one time payment so I don’t feel rushed when I don’t feel like animating for a couple weeks

Thank you

Clip Studio Paint can be vector based. Look into vector layers. Just because of that I would put it in A tier

Que buen nombre que tiene este canal!

As a amateur artist who is using Krita, I also want to listen you guys's opinion about this software. So far this software is still deceloping and I LOVE THAT PERSPECTIVE TOOL, other than that it's a bit like a spaceship like Blender to me. Not sure how ya guys think I haven't even touched the animation workspace but maybe I might in future

15:22 Bro, drag the audio ON THE STAGE and it will appear on the timeline. In fact, you don't even have to drag it to the library first, you can just drag it from your desktop to the stage and it will pop on the timeline. 16:01 Look at this! My god look at this; you can't even drag and drop it in Toonboom, you have to do it from a menu, that's ridiculous. And yeah that's also an option in Flash: File > Import to Stage. Of all the things you could've criticize Flash/Animate for, you choose the wrong one.

in adobe flash, you gotta make a new keyframe, drag the audio to the stage, then pull that frame out until the audio is finished lmao

I been 3D modeling in blender for like 1.5 years. and I just started 2D grease pencil a month ago after finally buying a tablet monitor. I've used, flash, Procreate, Procreate dreams, Photoshop, flip a clip, and by a mile I love blender a hell of a lot more. Not only, I have been storyboarding, and making animatics so fast with blender than any of the other programs. overall I'd Rate Blender an A. but that's just me.

Another simple animation software I used was Pencil2D (Raster/Vector). That one is a bit weird since it's really capable, but it's very limited. The way Pencil2D feels is like a small old house that's in the middle of being renovated. Very good stuff, but tons of bugs and limitations (No fancy brushes, vector tools are unfinished, using the line tool can sometimes crash the program, sound mixing is buggy, exporting an image sequence has a resolution cap while exporting as a gif/movie doesn't). Though, since the program is so small you figure-out all the quirks pretty fast and you can make some decent animations with it. The whole program gave me MS Paint vibes. Small, limited, and unimpressive looking, but can pack a decent punch if you fiddle around with it enough.

1.7k SUBSCRIBERS ONLY???! Sooo underrated, subscribe to this man at all costs