Animation at Home

    Just 25 years ago, having an animation studio in your home would have been a distant dream. The tools themselves were often out of financial reach. Just to get started you would need, an animation desk(with an animation disc), a stack of animation paper, a camera that could shoot high resolution in single frames, a filming desk, and editing software. And that was just for one person. If you needed more than one animator, and you most definitely would, you would need to double a lot of that equipment.

    Sure, you could do a homemade animation desk, and the camera did not have to be high-end, and the lights for filming could be taped on. But this isn't a school project anymore. You have clients and you need a professional-level animation product if you expect to make a real go of it.

    Present-day is a completely different situation, with modern computers and software, you can get up and running within a day and produce high-quality animation by the end of the week. Modern off-the-shelf PCs are more than equipped to handle animation software like Hamony, Animate, After Effects, TV Paint, or any number of other traditional animation software. There's even a full animation suite coming out for the Ipad called ProCreate Dreams, so you can take your animation studio on the go.

    A Wacom tablet, a Cintiq, a PC, and software are still expensive, but we have come a long way from spending thousands, maybe even a hundred thousand on equipment to start an animation studio at home.

    Animation is getting easier to create every day, however, that does not mean talent is as easy to come by. Animation is hard work, and it's not given out freely. You will still need to devote hundreds, even thousands of hours to get good, and this art fort you have dedicated yourself. Investing in a solid art school and the tools needed to create high-end pieces is definitely something to consider.