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DIY Animation
@diyanimation.bsky.social
Formerly [at]diyanimation on Twitter.
Site: https://diyanimation.club
(editor: Dave MH https://davemh.com)
Watches Allegro non troppo once:
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Shot I made for Teleframes2 (animated exquisite corpse collab). Final + process. #2danimation #traditionalanimation #tvpaintcommunity
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Loose Fables will have a digital window for a few days, Dec 15 - 17. This was such a great screening! Good vibes and so many unusual animated adaptations of fables (also -- I made the key art for this poster variant).

Hit the bell here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QHH...
December 8, 2023 at 12:04 AM
v2.0 is out! New brush category added: Duotone Shaders. Set your duotone via your foreground and background colors, and the brushes will mix them as your paint, in randomized ways.
October 5, 2023 at 11:16 PM
I just released a new set of Photoshop Brushes. These would make a great companion to the soft round brush. A simple way to add some speckly, splattery analog character.
davemh.gumroad.com/l/airbrush-b... #airbrush #photoshop #photoshopbrushes #visdev #animationartist #conceptart
September 28, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Gumroad freebie! Frame your animations for multiple aspect rations. davemh.gumroad.com/l/multiple-a...
August 29, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Breaking! In the interest of helping students, TV animation legend Joe Murray has just shared his now-classic out of print book, Creating Animated Cartoons with Character, as a free pdf download on his website. Get it here: joemurraystudio.com/books-by-joe...
August 22, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Newly acquired: Otomo Complete Works 21 and 22 (the long OOP Akira Storyboards book reprinted in two volumes):
August 21, 2023 at 11:37 PM
I've been watching a bunch of midcentury shorts and for the crowd scenes, very often the far bg is just a still. So I'm starting to lean on that approach, just to survive lol.

No stills of the crowd scenes but here's one that shows the approach to the bgs:
August 12, 2023 at 12:08 AM
I've also got Drawing Lessons From Master Comic Book Artists, which includes annotated pages, and paste-ups of examples. Really helpful book! Interesting ideas about using faux perspective based on focal point (rather than "optically correct" perspective) as a way to guide reader's attention.
August 3, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Outlaw comics legend Ken Landgraf has been selling self-published instructional books on ebay. I've been working through Comic Book Perspective and strongly recommend it!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/304230370700?hash=item46d58b0d8c:g:R8gAAOxySE9Q7v-P
August 3, 2023 at 4:32 PM
"Cel Animation for the Digital Era" is still my most-read article. Despite there being an AI glurge copycat now in circulation...
https://diyanimation.club/cel-animation-for-the-digital-era/
August 3, 2023 at 4:28 PM