https://youtube.com/shorts/G_Ic88nTA9A?si=pgLTz9Gapz4GkAFe

What do you guys think of this animated music video?

Bossa Nova Bus

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hi , i'm a teenager who it's kinda good at drawing but it's completly new in terms of animation and i'd like to star , which program should i star with ( i want to make retro animation like the ones people used to make for new grounds and early youtube and flash is not longer avaiable ) so any suggestion ?

Hello friends, I am doing research on the use of animation in the field of medicine, the typical thing we usually see is those 3D surgery simulations. I'm having a hard time finding records of traditional 2D animation used for medicine but it's hard for me to think that it started with 3D. If anyone has any material or knows  where I can find out, I would appreciate it.
I would love to be able to find the first origins,illustration was used for medical purposes, I don't think that from  illustration it jumped to the 3 skipping 2d

So I just remembered about an old video by Lindsay Ellis talking about the Smurfette principle which focuses on TV cartoons and this made me realize something, there seems to be fewer American TV cartoons led by female main characters compared to Japanese TV cartoons.

To make a point, limiting to those with female main characters, I'm listing down TV cartoons produced and aired by Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney and WB from the 90s up to now and compare it to TV cartoons produced and aired by the channel TV Tokyo (and affiliates) but ONLY from the 90s and 2000s.

So here's CN+Nick+Disney+WB from the 90s to now:

|| || |^(The Little Mermaid)|^(Dora the Explorer)|^(Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi)|^(Winx Club)|^(Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz)|^(Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs)| |^(KaBlam!)|^(As Told by Ginger)|^(The Life and Times of Juniper Lee)|^(The Legend of Korra)|^(Unikitty!)|^(Little Ellen)| |^(Cow and Chicken)|^(Lizzie McGuire)|^(The Buzz on Maggie)|^(Monsters vs. Aliens)|^(Butterbean's Café)|^(Monster High)| |^(The Wild Thornberrys)|^(The Proud Family)|^(The Weekenders)|^(Dora and Friends: Into the City!)|^(Infinity Train)|^(Velma)| | ^(The Powerpuff Girls) |^(Kim Possible)|^(Rugrats Pre-School Daze)|^(Fresh Beat Band of Spies)|^(Middle School Moguls)|^(The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish)| |^(Sing Me a Story with Belle)|^(The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)|^(The Replacements)|^(Shimmer and Shine)|^(The Casagrandes)|^(Max & the Midknights)| |^(Detention)|^(My Life as a Teenage Robot)|^(W.I.T.C.H.)|^(Mighty Magiswords)|^(DC Super Hero Girls)|| |^(Mike, Lu & Og)|^(Lilo & Stitch: The Series)|^(Team Umizoomi)|^(Nella the Princess Knight)|^(Harley Quinn)|| |^(Pepper Ann)|^(Brandy & Mr. Whiskers)|^(Bubble Guppies)|^(Sunny Day)|^(It's Pony)||

Here's TV Tokyo

|| || |Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko|The Vision of Escaflowne|Super Doll★Licca-chan|Fruits Basket|Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch|Onegai My Melody|La Corda d'Oro|Neo Angelique Abyss| |Magical Angel Sweet Mint|Aqua Age / Mizuiro Jidai|Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040|Kokoro Library|Di Gi Charat Nyo|Glass Mask|Ghost Hunt|Vampire Knight| |Thumbelina: A Magical Story|Kodomo no Omocha|Legend of Himiko|Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution|Maria-sama ga Miteru|Sugar Sugar Rune|Yamato Nadeshiko: The Wallflower|Soul Eater| |Hime-chan's Ribbon|Saber Marionette J|Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko|Seven of Seven|Doki Doki School Hours|Pani Poni Dash!|Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!|Hyakko| |The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz|Magical Girl Pretty Sammy|Jubei-chan - Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch|Galaxy Angel|The Marshmallow Times|GUNxSWORD|El Cazador de la Bruja|Skip Beat!| |Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair|Kero Kero Chime|Kaikan Phrase|Tokyo Mew Mew|Madlax|Fighting Beauty Wulong|Sugarbunnies|Kyo no Gononi| |Akazukin ChaCha|Revolutionary Girl Utena|Excel Saga|Full Moon o Sagashite|Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~|Animal Yokocho|Kamichama Karin|Bihada Ichizoku| |Metal Fighter Miku|Maze|Earth Maiden Arjuna|Azumanga Daioh|My-HiME|Aria the Animation|Lucky Star|Stitch!| |Blue Seed|Hyper Police|Dr. Rin ni Kiitemite!|Witch Hunter Robin|Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time |My-Otome|Sketchbook ~full color'S~|The Girl Who Leapt Through Space| |Wedding Peach|Battle Athletes|Angelic Layer|Ground Defense Force! Mao-chan|Starship Operators|Ginban Kaleidoscope|Shugo Chara!|Mainichi Kaasan| |Fushigi Yūgi|Fortune Quest L|Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san|Asagiri no Miko|Peach Girl|Inukami!|Minami-ke|Jewelpet| |Slayers|Nuku Nuku|Super GALS!|Nanaka 6/17|Mahoraba|Kirarin Revolution|Chi's Sweet Home|Saki| |Nurse Angel Ririka SOS|Serial Experiments Lain|Noir|Stellvia|Twin Princess of Wonder Planet|Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z|Uchi no Sanshimai|Tamagotchi|

The TV Tokyo list has a whopping 107 shows from only the 90s and 2000s (1 channel, 2 decades) with female main characters while CN, Nick, Disney and WB has 51 shows from the 90s up to now (3 or 4 channels, 3.5 decades) and even this list includes stretched out examples like Kablam and Lizzie Mcgquire to reach that.

The TV Tokyo list has some 12 episodes shows here and there, but has lots of 26 or 52 half-hour episodes shows and does feature behemoths (Slayers with 104 episodes, Kodomo no Omocha with 102 episodes, Kirarin Revolution with 153 episodes and Shugo Chara with 127 episodes, among others). Notably absent is Sailor Moon since that's an ABC/TV Asahi show.

Powerpuff Girls Z is a show that has production credits of both TV Tokyo and Cartoon Network, and it did air in nearly every international CN channel but weirdly enough, it did not air on US CN.

So yeah this kinda bugs me, why is there much fewer american tv cartoons with female main characters compared to japanese ones?

Good evening, fellas and fems.

I'll keep it brief. I've been looking around and haven't quite found an answer I'm confident passing on to my son. He's in middle school and looking to up his game, but isn't sure what software to start learning. He currently uses FlipAClip and wants to move onto something more capable.

He does 2D animated shorts on his Youtube channel and wants to continue doing that. Things in the same vein as this https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GD9prt9PD8Q (this obviously isn't him).

I am completely out of my wheelhouse with this, so I'm looking for something free and open source with decent tutorials and/or support, though I'm willing to pay for a program if that's what you guys really recommend.

Thanks so much!

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I like the whole idea of making a rough animation and aids doing the rest, but cascadeur is just a bit out of my budget for doing it as a hobby