oh haha thank u so much!! XD im still noobish lol i majored in aniamtion at my community college but a some of stuff was also self taught.

hmm i'd say theres nothing i learned at school that i couldnt have looked up myself.. if u arent in school currently then imo self taught is better. they didnt teach anything like compositing or special effects.. or really digital animation.. we just drew traditional which was quite fun but they really just taught the basics. i can send u some vids later that could help.

Edit - ok here are the vids @lionelkochanowski

12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series) - https://youtu.be/uDqjIdI4bF4

^ you basically really just need to know this and then play around and experiment with this on your own.

If you wanna do anime animations - https://youtu.be/lTwMjbD2adQ
Just discovered dis guy recently, he teaches stuff that i rly wanted to know but barely anyone teaches like what are those blue, red lines you see in anime studio wips

Though he uses opentoonz which is kind of hard to get into. for beginners i recommend Krita which is what i used to use - its nice but to do fancy stuff like camera stuff, sfx i'd recommend opentoonz. I used to draw in the special effects manually. Open toonz comes with sfx for animation.

Krita tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pwrr4gPOA&ab_channel=JesseJ.Jones

If you're interested i post some animations and speedpaints on my youtube as well. (tho i post on IG more usually...) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2_j3oXTtc4KbePI4jvSdyA

Here's a speed paint of the animation i showed in my original post (Maxus - Red Lightning) (this was animated in krita.) https://youtu.be/G8HhJzD5Kfg

Finally done with this was trying out animating in open toonz only to find out that after i drew my lineart on multiple layers that i couldnt merge them rip. decided to try out clip paint studio that i'd been eyeing for some time and omg clip paint studio is frikin amazing and everything im looking for.

Good thing i exported the mov of the lineart from opentoonz cuz i had to redo all of my lineart for 155 frames in clip paint studio which took like 2-3 days XD but yay now its done.. next im moving on to animating that face anatamy thing tho im still testing out clip paint studio so i may draw a pic using the 8 elements in term 2.

My fav frame in this whole animation

oh and here's a test run of when i first used clip paint studio before i did the lineart for that main anim (idk why it looks slower than the mov tho but it was a test run and my main anim looks good so whatevs XD)

Here's a drawing consisting of the 8 elements:

Though on the top right corner there seems to be almost too much stuff while on the bottom left corner there seems to be too little stuff but idk what to put there hahaha

also the leaves look interesting but the light from the skylight passing through the indoor tree on Maxus's coat looks weird but the bit on uris's arm looks good tho.. wonder why

Thank you haha which arm placement? do you have any advice as to how to make the pose better?