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My first 2D animation since I was a teenager which was decade ago. Blog post describing it and showing the video. Used Open Toonz which was pretty good despite being somewhat buggy. I am not a cartoonist so don't expect a masterpiece! I am thinking of mixing 2 and 3D in my next projects so this was eye opening and , I hope, I good starting point.

LMAO what? Are you saying they're ending sales / rents of single plugins and only rent out the entire package? Wow, I mean the GSG guys were always kind of fishy to me (Chris Schmidt excluded but he ran already a while ago, I'm not surprised) but this is ... yeah. I hope they fall flat with that tactic. Subscription everywhere is already bad enough but now the plugin providers start out as well. EDIT: Just looked it up, 50$ a month if you go monthly. I think they're overstretching the value of their content juuuuuuuuust a bit here.

Yea plenty of good freelancers on here, infact even though I'm maybe slightly biased;) some of most talented guys around from all areas such as @everfresh@Neil Stubbings @kingcoma @Vozzzfor toon stuff, rigging and animations, @Cerbera and @contrafibbularities for any sort of god tier level modelling requirements @EAlexanderfor some sexy rendering action, @Rectrofor realistic character work, and forum legends such as @Igor @bezo @Hrvojewith so much knowledge it I'll make your brain internally combust and tonnes of other people I'm definitely forgetting as I've been out the game a while now, regardless definitely some very talented people that can cater to anything you need:)

What is really scary is that Greyscale Gorilla is now going the 100% subscription route. All perpetual license sales are ending. As an owner of their plugins (Signal and GorillaCam) they will only support perpetual users through the next release of C4D. If I want their plugins to work in a version of C4D after that, I have to purchase their entire subscription service for $400/year. Honestly...that is outrageous. I always appreciated their tutorials and what they did for the community but now they are as evil as Adobe (IMHO). I personally hope GSG fails at this venture and realizes that a good portion of their market is filled with people who reject all forms of subscriptions or who use C4D subscriptions begrudgingly. Even if you are forced into C4D subscriptions, you do have a choice for their plugins, libraries and tutorials. GSG is NOT the only game in town in those areas. So I want them to fail because imagine if EVERY plugin developer, tutorial maker, or library developer went to a subscription model? How much are you willing to pay EACH year for access to HDRI images you may not even be using on a regular basis? Overall...ridiculous and down right greedy. They are dead to me. The best part of GSG was Chris Schmidt so I am very glad he left GSG and is now running his own show at RocketLasso. ...and now a short plug for RocketLasso (Disclosure: I am not an affiliated with RocketLasso, Chris Schmidt or anyone who works with RocketLasso) Great site....clear well thought-out instruction. Chris simply is a great teacher. Yes...it tends to be a little heavy on the MoGraph side, but EVERYTHING you learn is ALWAYS very practical that can be applied to ANYTHING. Chris also personally responds to email (having contacted him relative to some Xpresso courses). He is extremely knowledgeable in just about all the areas of C4D. Definitely a site worth checking out. Plus RocketLasso is starting to make plugins (Recall seems very cool). Dave