I’ve been doing plenty of research for what an animator needs; ranging from both a hand drawn animator and a computer animator.
Hand Drawn Needs:
Non-photo blue pencil
Drawing pencil set
3 Hole Punched Paper
Light Table/Light Desk
Animation Desk
Art Gum Erasers
Copy Safe Transparency films
Acrylic paints
Brushes
Color pencils
Watercolors
Markers
Pastels
Peg Bar
Computer Animators need:
Gaming Laptop
Digital Camera
Scanner
Graphics Tablet (preferably display tablet)
Sound Hardware
Image Manipulation Software
Animation Software
3D Animation
Sound and Music software
As of now I’m only working with Computer animations, so that’s what I’ll be discussing. My hardware equipment is my HP Notebook I got from Best Buy and my Parblo Island a609 I got from eBay: both I’m not too fond of. I’m saving up for a gaming laptop and a display tablet. I’m not paying no more than $1,200 for a gaming laptop and no more than $250 for a display tablet; resulting in me needing to save $1,450… ugh …
Digital camera? Not going to lie, I honestly wasn’t looking, I was just going to use my cellphone’s camera for the time being. I have a Samsung Galaxy J7 and it has both a front and back flash camera, so I think I’m fine in that department.
I had my eye on this printer/scanner, a Canon Pixma MG2522. I think it’d be very useful on my journey.
Now, the current software I use is FireAlpaca, LMMS, Inkscape, OpenToonz, Blender, and Trebly. I’ll make separate posts on each software when I get a better understanding of them.
That’s it for now and thank you for taking the time to read my post!
Products I’m using or looking forward to getting:
Graphics Tablet I have:
Graphics Tablet I want:
Printer Scanner I want:
Digital Camera I want:
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