What do i need to learn to make my own animations?

johnryou81

What are the different programs I need to learn to render and animate my own scenes?

rames44

You can create animations in DS without any external programs if you want. Basically, just use the timeline to shift the various character/prop/camera poses over time.

When you go to render, you can render directly to a movie file, and be able to play the animation from there. A slightly more robust workflow is to render to an image series, instead of directly to a movie. That way, if something crashes partway thru, or you need to tweak part off the animation, you don’t need to re-render the whole thing.  If you do that, you need an external program to merge the image series into a movie file. There are a number of different free programs that will do that. Search for “image series to video” or “image series to gif” or whatever you intend your final output to be. I use ffmpeg, but that might be a bit hard-core for a novice.