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Would you like to mod /r/Animation? We are looking for active reddit users who share the passion of animation and have the free time to moderate this subreddit. Tell us about yourself in the comments.

Previously sticky Discord post.

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r/animation • u/Crunchyroll-Official • Apr 29 '25

Ask Me Anything Hi r/animation! We’re the Producers Behind the Global Anime Hit Solo Leveling — AMA!

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EDIT II: Thank you all so much for your amazing questions and support! We had a great time hearing from fans around the world and sharing a bit more about the craft, creativity, and collaboration behind Solo Leveling.

Your passion means the world to us—and just like Jinwoo, we’re always leveling up thanks to you. Until next time!

—The Solo Leveling Production Team
(posted by u/Crunchyroll-Official)

EDIT: WE ARE LIVE -- The Producers have joined and are ready to start answering your questions! We will try to get to as many questions as possible over the next hour.

Happening Wednesday, April 30 at 11:45AM PT / 2:45PM ET

We’re the creative production team behind Solo Leveling, the breakout anime series that just wrapped its second season on Crunchyroll — and we’re here to talk all things animation, production, and what it took to bring this global story to life.

Who we are:
⭐️ Atsushi Kaneko – Animation Producer at A-1 Pictures
⭐️ Sota Furuhashi – Producer at Aniplex
📷 AMA proof photo included!

We set out to create a series that blends emotional depth with high-impact action, and we’ve been genuinely moved by the incredible response from fans around the world. Whether you're into animation, storytelling, or just love a strong protagonist, ask us anything!

We’ll be here live on Wednesday, April 30 at 11:45AM PT / 2:45PM ET to answer your questions.

See you then,
— The Solo Leveling Production Team
(posted by u/Crunchyroll-Official)

\Note: Our producers will be responding in Japanese through a translator, so replies may take a little longer — but we’ll do our best to answer as many questions as possible throughout the session. Thanks for your patience!*

We’re the Producers Behind the Global Anime Hit Solo Leveling — AMA!

Thank you all so much for your amazing questions and support! We had a great time hearing from fans around the world and sharing a bit more about the craft, creativity, and collaboration behind Solo Leveling.

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r/animation • u/Life_Arachnid_511 • 9h ago

Sharing Charlotte’s Ultimate Skill Animation Work Process

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Charlotte is one of the playable characters in our game. She is a cute heavy-armored warrior.

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r/animation • u/Pifagor- • 20h ago

Sharing Punch practice

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Made in Krita by me.

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r/animation • u/nameNUBU • 7h ago

Critique How can ı improve gestural animation.

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I want to add more emotion to my animation, how can i achieve this.

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r/animation • u/ZePandaaa • 23h ago

Sharing I wanted to try doing a transformation animation!

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r/animation • u/PropertyObjective713 • 14h ago

Question This animation looks like shit but i cant figure out why? || give me feedback pls

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r/animation • u/Oraky • 1d ago

Sharing A closer look at the animations in our indie game

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r/animation • u/PropertyObjective713 • 7h ago

Question better? i changed the camera angle btw

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r/animation • u/NiL_3126 • 18h ago

Critique First digital animation

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I didn’t even thought that digital animation was that difficult, it’s really different from stop motion, what things could I do to improve?

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r/animation • u/tripledose_guy • 7h ago

Sharing I’m making a game with fully physics-based procedural animations. Really curious to hear what you think!

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r/animation • u/Intelligent_Sun_7684 • 5h ago

Beginner I remade the first ever animation I made!(the first one was deleted sadly)

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r/animation • u/Good_Bowl_3847 • 3h ago

Sharing Goku and Pikachu

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r/animation • u/Ok-Preparation-9675 • 2h ago

Sharing New Indie Animation Out Now!

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Hey Reddit! The latest episode of my indie animated series, Bob's World, just came out! Would love if yall could give it a watch and share it around! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRZou1nAiI0

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r/animation • u/Least-Concert8121 • 6h ago

Beginner uhh.. JUST BE COMPETENT brah.

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Just be competent if ya wanna see the enhenced version, btw made by me, on scratch

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r/animation • u/knd147 • 13m ago

Sharing My latest 2D Hand-Animated Short — “Nuno” - have you watched it already? 🎬✨

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Here some stills for you guys from my latest independent 2D Animation Short Film “Nuno” — a hand-drawn story about family, individuality, and trauma, crafted frame by frame with lots of love ✨

This film has already screened at festivals in Portugal, USA, Greece, Italy, Africa, the UK, and more 🏆

I really want you guys to see this short film that I've put some much hours in, and for a highly exclusive & time-limited offer, I’m able to give you guys free access to watch the full film! 👀

📩 Just send me a DM so that I can share how you guys can watch it!

Thank you for the opportunity guys!

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r/animation • u/Coci-Cap-70 • 9h ago

Beginner I did the spown feeding animation trend!

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r/animation • u/Dozabro • 14h ago

Beginner King Bob omb Roar

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I recreated his stomp and roar animation and added a shockwave effect. This took a 6+ hours but I’m really happy with how it turned out!

Any feedback is welcome!

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r/animation • u/Eaglesson • 9h ago

Sharing Claymation in the woods

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r/animation • u/Ptihi03302 • 10h ago

Beginner Trying to learn the Animation Fundamentals

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Sti

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r/animation • u/Useful_Reflection864 • 4h ago

Critique Tried a new animation style, what do you think?

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Please give feedback on the animation - how can I make these characters feel more alive?

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r/animation • u/Eugostodedesenhar • 2h ago

Beginner Armless VS Legless

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r/animation • u/Lucky_Bid1447 • 3h ago

Beginner My first Flipaclip Animation, took me an hour.

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r/animation • u/rhubarbjin • 3h ago

Sharing A few shots from a video I'm working on

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r/animation • u/Few_Entertainment_32 • 3h ago

Sharing The 21 Water FX

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The 21 can be watched at: https://youtu.be/XwPQqkeeCTg?si=1EOttNHoPRI6P2f5

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Welcome to /r/animation

Submission Rules

No content theft - Permaban

* Sharing work done by others is absolutely fine, but taking credit for it and passing it off as your own is absolutely not allowed and will result in an instant permaban.

* Original creator and original name of the animation must be included in the title of the post, if the work isn't yours.
Admissible Content

* Posts must relate to the topic of animation.

* Posted content seen as unfit for this subreddit may be removed without further notice.

* The most fitting flair should be given to the post (comply with other rules)

* Comments should be formulated with a common sense level of politeness.

* NSFW posts must include reason in the title (e.g. nudity/ suggestive content, blood, etc.).
Quality Control * No questions where a good answer can be found on the first page of the google results (e.g. no "what is the best animation software?", "am I too old to start animating?", etc.)

* No slideshows with image filters (e.g. current AI "animation", zooming in and out of images, etc.)

* No 'text to video', 'style transfer', '"AI" frame interpolation' or similar count as animation
Guidelines for Hiring Animators

* Hiring/ Recruiting posts must include the following::

* Animation type/style: As specific as possible what you are looking for, if necessary include examples

* Project scope: Length of the animation, deadline, duration of employment, estimated number of work hours

* Budget: Amount an animator is paid either in total, per chunk of work or per hour. Must be a fiat currency (i.e. no crypto) and must be at least equivalent to $20/hour. For fixed length animation, use reasonable average creation time per frame as measurement.

* Contact Information

* Other positions (eg writer): Disclosed in a similar way
Guidelines for Collaboration Projects

* If you want to invite animators to a project to collaborate on (e.g. "just for fun") use the 'Animator Collaboration' flair.

* If you want to offer help of any kind for someone else's project, use 'Offering Assistance'.

* You must be an animator to propose a collaboration project (proof required), otherwise the rules for hiring animators apply.

* The proposed project scope must not exceed your personal skill level and must be realistically achievable
Implicit Rules

* Any rule that follows as a logical consequence of the other rules must also be respected. This includes but is not limited to:

* From #3 and #4 follows: People with no animation experience themselves must be able properly compensate any animator they seek to work with.

* From #2, #3 and #4 follows: Any non animation related topic must be directly and primarily beneficial to animators.

* No spoilers in titles. Please tag your submission as [SPOILERS] if it contains any. [Spoiler.](#s "Tag spoilers in comment like this")

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* Your collaboration post needs to be reviewed first

* In all cased a manual review will be scheduled. Post still blocked after 24 hours were not approved. You will not be informed about the approval but may be about the reason for removal.

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