Blender
control blender - llm voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InHuoGkOb2s
Manim Animation, using Python Libraries
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Most likely the best free animation software out there, Blender is a powerful open-source tool capable of delivering impressive results to users familiar with it. When it comes to animation, Blender makes use of tools like shape animations, vertex weighting, armature, and inverse kinematics, along with so many others to allow intricate, detail-oriented animation.
Advanced rigging tools include envelope, skeleton, and automatic skinning. There’s also easy weight painting, mirror functionality, and bone layers for organization. The built-in brush selection includes Crease, Clay Strips, Pinch, Smooth, Mask, Grab to help make animations ultra life-like. Advanced animators can also customize brushes to match their unique design requirements. Shape keys enable you to tweak facial expressions, model muscle parts and refine skeletal rigs. You can sculpt, model, render, and more. You can even use the Grease Pencil feature to work on 2D creations and the helpful Python API for scripting and customisation through app extensions.
AI-assisted Animation
Cascadeur is a standalone 3D animation software that combines traditional keyframe animation with advanced physics and AI assistance, enabling animators to create realistic and expressive character movements efficiently.
Keyframes are critical points in the movement, such as the beginning, peak, or end of a particular action (e.g., the extreme points of a jump, like takeoff, midair, and landing). Tweening interpolates the motion between Key Poses
Physics-based animation.
Lofi Girl
Looping Animation, hand drawing or tools, soundtrack (Licensing) comment section peaceful relaxing soothing 105 million views
kk - Lofi Girl
uu - 100 million views - Lofi Girl Midnite Study Session
Multi-hour animated videos, with long looping time, and different loops with random events, original mellow music, which itself loops. Passive game. Sexy manga and anime.

Lofi is about the music tracks, not the animation, which are just to look good. Simple animation-like effects or overlays, or backgrounds that appear to move left to right, panning, or zoom in or out. animations on a loop, with automated, random decision trees. Image effects
Vector graphics, and raster.
OpenToonz
Blender
Krita
Pencil2D
Synfig Studio
Adobe Animate
Moho Pro
Toon Boom Harmony
https://www.kdanmobile.com/en/animation-desk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxcFgxZ76AE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkdJ92pVrKQ
TUTORIALS
Barricado - opentoonz
Debraj Sarkar - animation
JesseJJones
Plug-ins for open toons
GTS
Effects
KumoWorks
DWANGO?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3orj0eg5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTwMjbD2adQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkmyO3OvagU
plastic tool to create a mesh, then skeleton tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72Ix0abQ8E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXtrLPJ2uw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekoZ-3FWeQQ&list=PLqazFFzUAPc6if6lKp2Z5sDKcvVND0cP-
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBxSFuwkwXgNwv_DDH1tjRQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQEqCMYH1VY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVNlenF7LHk&list=RDQMoEuFk9IO0is&start_radio=1
opentoonz tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5xtQ0kWJKFSQMJFKEhFrJWOuB4jn4uXu
Paul Tillery IV - opentoonz tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g_SAIlLe-c&list=PLdkZXaKwa7Q89rvc-WL8o-joFIkE1uCoW
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFVTl6ZPX2wF3QMlAZIYNRQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyPvRrRxLzo
ThunderCluck
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTVVQ_GqpCnQi0GqDSEyLYQ
https://www.youtube.com/c/Barricados/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfBI76ktXoU&list=PLGgZjwctXPUD_6uXWwU5mIjY70jmpF09w
Animation Examples
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/most-viewed-indie-animated-shorts-on-youtube
50 most-viewed independent animated shorts on Youtube
Peppa Pig - 25M subscribers
Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes, 116M subscribers
K-3D
Animation Paper
Krita
Clara.io
DAZ Studio
Plastic Animation Paper
Toontastic 3D
looking for an animation program to specialize in.
start with recommendations, and search for number so fprofessionals in each program.
Krita - free animation software
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBxSFuwkwXgNwv_DDH1tjRQ/playlists
Characters
Peppa Pig - 25M subscribers
Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes, 116M subscribers
Hello Kitty
Sales: Product Lines, clothing, toys, notebooks, etc.
Licensing: Events, branding, themes
Fanbase: Miss Kitty, Japanese manga, hentai cosplay.
movie studio
animation
cartoons
3d movies
cgi, movie effects
mobile apps
games
https://moneywise.com/life/entertainment/the-highest-paid-youtube-stars
Unboxing: kids unbox toys and other products and play with them, talking about their experience and the product.
Corporate Sponsors, Advertisers
Toy Companies
Hasbro
Lego
MGA Entertainment Inc. is a manufacturer of children's toys and entertainment products founded in 1979. Its products include, Bratz, L.O.L. Surprise! (unboxing doll), Num Noms and Rainbow High.
Mattel
Spin Master
Tomy Company
Faber Castell
Art supplies manufacturers
Cosmetics Companies
Children's clothing lines, clothing companies, high-end fashion
Entertainment Companies
Disney
Pixar
Dreamworks
LucasFilms
Marvel Studios
DC Comics
Nickelodian
Sony
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Minions
Shrek
Toy Story
Finding Nemo
Lilo & Stitch
Avatar
Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Dr Strange
Transformers
Avengers
Physical Toys
Game Companies
Nintendo
X-box
* Anti-barbie, or punk-rock, anti-establishment dolls, for bad, rebellious girls
* Like Lego, but held together with magnets, and using wood or pieces you create yourself out of a composite, rather than plastic.
Many games may portray violence and malintention, seeking sales without delving deeper in karmic seeds that may be planting. Participation in, or marketing of these games must be avoided.
Synergies between cable TV and entertainment companies, brand development, related product and toy lines, theme parks, etc.
Hasbro buys Entertainment One for $4 billion, gets Peppa Pig franchise, and is adding content-creation capabilities. Peppa Pig had $1.35 billion in retail sales in 2019, and the brand has room for growth, especially in China. Entertainment One’s television and film division can help increase content production and work with film studios and broadcast operators. Demand for franchisable, global content is at an all-time high.
Hasbro’s competitive positioning in the pre-school category, a significant market for the company. Unlock value with acquired brands by moving Entertainment One's toy business in-house. Hasbro paid a healthy yearly multiple on earnings, and is taking on significant leverage.
Adorable, Super-heros with personality and amazing, creative super-powers. Dressed in warm, basic colors, with a bit of pastel.
Characters of the superhero TV show Power Rangers.
Hasbro has also linked up with Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney and has seen growth with Marvel’s Avengers toys.
Peppa Pig, which brings in the bulk of revenue at eOne, is a popular show that is streamed on several platforms across the globe and has been grabbing more sales with the growing popularity of its toys and merchandise. Jackie Breyer, group publisher at trade magazine, 'the Toy Book', said the latest deal shows Hasbro’s efforts to build its entertainment brands and not just toys. Beloved, story-led global family brands that deliver strong operating returns, and provides a pipeline of new brand creation driven by family-oriented storytelling.
Animation leads to looping cartoons with open-license soundtracks, then with dialog, to independent cartoons, branding, popular themes, kid's stories, then onto animated movies, game development.
Seeking animators or just artists who have work online, or can be found through a competition or contest online. Also simple fiver, elance or other talent sites. Can confirm it is the artist by having them do videos of themselves with their art, creating similar drawings. Some younger artists will draw for the fun of it, on a drawing site, or submit their drawings as in FaceBook, royalty-free as in the terms and conditions of using the site. Can have tracking and if their work goes viral, they get a stated % of the net profit.
Seeking voice-over talent online besides myself, or local (English, Hindi, Chinese, or Spanish, etc) speakers. Can verify it is the speaker again by video chat or a phone call with them. Again can establish working relationships online, especially with younger talent that is seeking exposure, credits on their resume/portfolio, and practice.
animations on a loop, with automated, random decision trees, live podcasts
Chilled Cow - - not open source, but good example of primitive looping
Multi-hour animated videos, with long looping time, and different loops with random events, original mellow music, which itself loops. Passive game. Sexy manga and anime.
(open source animation, watch cartoons while overlay of audio, tell a story, self-help..)
Looping Animation, using hand drawing or tools, with an excellent, related soundtrack (License), Meditation - Monoman .beautiful comment section peaceful relaxing soothing 57 million views
in VR, one way to manipulate objects is to wear a glove, and map the glove in space using lasers (like a gamebox), and have the motions of the glove mapped within the virtual world. Also, on various screens, there are libraries of 3-D objects that you can select and place into the background with the glove. Having pressed record, you can then move the object in the background in real time, and then press play and you havce 3-D animation.
new ways to animate using multiple cameras and software, tracking moving images in real time, and translating characters into animation. Can map these characters onto backgrounds, and even moving backgrounds, perspectives shadows, light source, etc. look into how games are made.