Quick Question for an Experienced Animator

[chiefr_suthrland]

I was thinking about doing some more comic book style animations similar to this...

https://youtu.be/Xp40TAwpz0Q

So, can anyone tell me...does this look like it was done with a drawing tablet/adobe illustrator type setup...or is it just me? It seems (to me at least) like it was something done frame by frame with a drawing pen...I need someone with more experience to confirm/disprove this however

[slowtiger]

Definitely frame-by-frame animation, done in a bitmap program (like TVPaint), could be done as well in Toonboom.

You never use Illustrator for animation.

[chiefr_suthrland]

Knew it, idk much about Illustrator. When I tell people I animate they always ask me if I use Illustrator. I could do this in Adobe Animate though, right? Never even heard of that software until now

[Lukas]

The brush strokes look like those from Adobe Animate (previously Flash).

You could also check out OpenToonz as an alternative to TVPaint. It's a bit harder to learn and rough around the edges, but it's free and has a lot of features that TVPaint is lacking. I wouldn't recommend Adobe Animate.

[Greenlaw]

Knew it, idk much about Illustrator. When I tell people I animate they always ask me if I use Illustrator. I could do this in Adobe Animate though, right? Never even heard of that software until now

Adobe Illustrator isn't an animation program so that's kind of an odd thing for them to ask. You might use Illustrator to create elements to use in an animation program like Moho, but you normally wouldn't 'animate' in Illustrator.

Adobe Animate used to be called Flash, so you might have heard of that. Animate has vector-based brushes and it's commonly used in TV animation. Moho can technically do this kind of animation, but FBF is easier in programs like Flash and Harmony mainly because of better freehand drawing tools.

For FBF, there are many options out there. I'm personally liking TVPaint a lot. OpenToonz is probably the best known free program for it.

Also, check out Krita. This is a terrific free paint program that also has an FBF animation timeline. (My one gripe is that Krita's timeline can't display audio waveforms.)