how i animate !! + q&a 

As a beginner digital artist, i REALLY look forward in trying to animate, which i've never done and hopefully someday i have the courage

It's really inspiring seeing someone I look up to talk about their process and how they started animating, or making any content, really. I feel you on the time management issue. College is crazy. Say, what do you study? Good luck on future projects! :D

When she mentioned college and said "I'm tired !!! Why is this so hard !!" I felt that. I felt that deep within my soul.

I'm a writer. It's the one talent that I have. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to make animated films or shows, and I'd love to learn how, but the work required is too massive for my impatient brain. I have so much respect for people who can do it, especially those who do it as well as you do. Stay awesome, Shar. (Oh, and more smooth jazz singing, plz.)

This is honestly just an exceptional intro and explanation into animation. Such beautiful examples too!!

your animations always cheered me up, and you have a beautiful voice, good luck with your RU-vid channel ♥ ️

There are so many artists who deserve to be famous and don’t get there. I’m so, so glad Shar is making it, she deserves the world. One of the cutest and most wholesome artists I’ve ever come across

9:25 , what an incredibly specific example which makes me fully understand how you feel when animating.

I love how casual you are in your voiceovers. All the wheezing and laughing makes me feel like I’m listening to a friend talk, and makes me wheeze and laugh too! Also, I’m so sorry about your cats. Losing a family pet is always a hard experience. I hope you’re doing okay

my condolences for your loved pets, you are doing amazing keeping headstrong! Thank you for pushing through and giving us a look into your work process and your personal life :) keep on keeping on shar! you got this girl!☺

Confirmed shar is the cutest most wholesome animator ever

Aw, man as another self-taught animator who also doesn't know what she's doing, I can totally relate to your struggles of making animaions- it's really fun but there are just some parts that you have to rely on your sheer stubbornness to get through. And I also totally have a love-hate relationship with in-betweens and coloring lol keep up with your work and hope everything goes well shar!!!

That intro was the most cutest and smooth animation I have ever seen

It feels like everyone’s in their graduating year, including me. I guess we all want to end 2021 on a decent note.

Can I say that your video is so refined? The layouts and design is so pretty and the transitions are awesome. Sorry I’m so entranced

The cats DDDD: Your work is beautiful Shar, you’ve done so much even when times were tough. We’re here for you!

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this Shar. All of the little edits, the sound effects, and just all of it! Thank you again for inspiring us, as it's always a pleasure seeing you and your work. Hope you enjoy your winter break coming up!

Good luck with graduation, Shar! Your animations are very beautiful and bring joy to a lot of people around here. Take your time, If your studies are your priority I guess we all can wait because we also want you to be happy as well.

I’m honestly so happy to get this video. Everything is just amazing the vibe, the song, the style, the small drawings, the editing and transitions like everything is so soothing and relaxing. So glad to hear you, love your voice. It was really interesting to learn your process for making your wholesome animation. Thanks for this video ! I can’t wait for the next ones

This was so fun to watch. Love your animations and it seems you have a lovely personality as well! Thanks for the motivation :)

I understand a certain amount of your animation pain and I wish I could give you a hug and comfort you. I’m glad you’re somewhat managing your life well and I am sorry for the loss of your cats. Thank you for all that you do and I look forward to the next animation!

I love hearing about your process for animation and how incredibly relatable a lot of your struggles are (especially as a fellow person currently trying to animate while at school) Always love seeing your work Shar! Keep up the awesome work

"it usually works, until it doesn't" YES!! THIS HAPPENS TO ME 24/7 IN EVERYTHING 😭 ur the 1st animator that stayed as an inspo for me, ily stay safe n hydrated

Thanks for the outline! I've been needing a review for a while and your animation style is just so fluid I had to watch!

You've made some of my favorite animations ever, so thank YOU! You have a lovely singing voice, as well.

"So, coloring :D.... " *"I hate colouring :D"* I can't with your positive vibes 😂😂😂

i really love your personality and you're such an inspiration to me 😭💜

you seeing people happy is making you happy just approves that ur an angel person, I love ur animations! thanks for all of this!!

ooo this is such a good video!! it makes me very happy, it's very comforting. The editing is great and the cozy casualness of your narration is such a great way to calm down. the colors are so soft it's lovely ^-^!!

This is so cute!!! I watched this while doing some of my own sketches and I admire your work so much!! Go Shar!!!

The quality of this video was so good??? I'm always blown away by how incredible your work is, even with something as simple as a "how to" video. Keep it up!!!

thank you so much shar!!!! this was so helpful and motivational. I’ve always wanted to get into animation, but I had a hard time understanding where to start and I got discouraged easily. your animations have kept that little spark of curiosity for it inside of me, so thank you endlessly for that :))))

THE EDITING IS BEAUTIFUL WOW

I'm so happy🥺 The day before this was posted, I'd started an animation(a short 5 second practice, beginner here) but in my mind I knew I'd either fail or lose inspiration, and then never return to it, so it became something to do just to draw that day. I didn't turn back to it until this video came out and I watched it. It honestly helped tremendously, and I've had two 4-hour bursts of energy to work on my animation,. So far, I'm incredibly happy with it, and it's giving me more energy. Thank you so much, Shar! And I love your animations! Glad you're still doing well despite everything else!

Man, hearing your whole animation process and Q&A session gave me flashbacks to when I was in my final year of college last year when I was getting into creating pixel art. Seeing the time and effort put into creating these animations and hearing the advices you gave is really encouraging and I hope everything goes even better for you in the future.

this is really inspiring sharr omgg looking forward to more stuff from you!!❤️❤️

i'm a multimedia arts student and i learned so much more from this video than the entire term i had my animation class 😭 thank u for this shar!!!

I always appreciate it when animators show their process, thanks!

Thank you for sharing your joy and positivity with this world! I'm so sorry for your loss, my condolences

This is adorable XD Thank you for showing us your process! Animation looks really hard but awesome once it comes together

I can't blame you. With all the shit link and zelda have gone through every timeline, I really hope and wish them the best. That's why I like your animations. It feels different and chill. It's why slice of life is my favorite anime genre. Good luck with school and hope to see you back soon!

HER VOICE IS SO RELAXING TO LISTEN TO

This is definitely a long awaited, worth watching video. Tysm for this! I’ve been wanting to try and seeing a good animator’s process.

Even your process and qna video is so heart-warming to watch, your voice is so pleasing to listen to!

Omg shar you’re an adorable person I love your animations Please never stop giving Link and Zelda the happy life they deserve ♥️♥️

I don't think I truly appreciated how much effort animators put into their work until I watched this video Thanks for the explanations!

This channel is filled with such a degree of wholesome that I literally cannot help but smile just listening to it.

Thank you so much for your art, shar! I'm very grateful for your art!

holy cow, i cannot believe you learned to animate yourself, it looks so good! all your animations are so natural and smooth, i love them so much

Always warms my heart whenever i watch your animations, Wish you the best!!

This is wholesome 100. Thank you for this Q & A shar!

Your work is AWESOME, I really look forward to seeing more animations! ^^ Good luck, I hope your 2022 will be better

This video holds sich soft, wholesome and cute vibes. I love it

First off, I'm so sorry to hear about ur cats they seem so sweet❤️ second off thank you so much for all ur hard work despite these past few years and giving us such amazing art and making us laugh I can't wait to see what more you have in store! (I myself would love to hear more of ur beautiful voice~)

your style's so cuuuuute!! i love it so much

Such a cute video!! Luv u and ur stuff sm char!

THE QUEEN IS BACK Y'ALL

As someone who wanted to get into art in highschool, but was constantly weighed down by everything and was a video game addict, seeing what you were able to make when you were younger fills me with a kind of positive regret, the kind of regret that gets you off your butt and moving. Thanks

those sounds effects are really relaxing!

Thanks for all your great vids. They always give me the boost I need to get through some hard overtime!

its actually incredible how good your drawings and animations are! especially accounting that you've never officially taught.

this legitimately made my day it was so good

Literally everything about your personality is a mood and I'm here for it.

I can't explain why, but watching the video makes my hand go thumbs up and my face to smile from time to time. I guess that's just how much good vibes this video has.

I can’t draw, but your animations do spark the itch I get when I write. Please continue your glorious wholesomeness, it fuels my passion to write similar things.

this entire video just feld like a pretty perfectly wrapped gift box that made me warm all over~ be sure to take breaks sharlene and i'll just be here admiring ur work respectfully from afar ahhahah

I absolutely love how you capture emotions and hone in on them on your stuff. You remind me a lot of the slice of life genre. Like making things that seem so real and relatable. You use real modern things, and real emotions, and focus on them when often we overlook them. Slice of life is my favorite genre since it's like peaceful escapism, focusing on small moments, and making them mean a lot... so yeah, I love your work.

i love your positive vibes!

You are a great animator. I admire your integrity.

Wow you, Louie, and Worthi are basically my three main inspirations atm!

We love seeing you happy Shar

Best of luck with college! And may fortune smile upon you, your art is really heart warming and genuinely great, thank you for making this video, was hella helpful.

0:30 I'm so glad Shar already knows what the people want

This is truly inspiring and wholesome! I haven’t done animation in quite some time and, your process and the way you go about animating makes me want to do it again!!

RU-vid recommended this, and god It's amazing, thank you Shar!! You have a new fan!!

You seem like such a happy and bubbly person. Listening to this feels like I've been given a warm blanket :>

I'm sorry for your loss of your two cats. I hope you feel better and I love your animations

aww this is so cute, love your work sm shar!

All of your videos bring me great joy. Even q&a's. Thanks for being a talented person!

Wow, just... you're joy, you're the concept of joy in this world. Keep going and good luck for the rest of your life. Don't care if it sounds cheesy, I mean it.

Hey Shar! I'm just starting to watch your vids and I'm an animation student (hopefully gonna go through my last year next year to graduate, hah), and I hope you don't mind me breaking down some of your steps a bit more! By the looks of things, you've gotten everything pretty solidly! The sketch is still solid to call as a storyboard - even if it only makes sense to you, boards are boards! The thing about your version of the in-between stage is actually two steps at once: Breakdowns (hah) and in-betweens. In animation principles, you do your keys (keyframes, core poses) first, then the breakdown poses (which break down the movement but still in blocky stages, keeping in mind the timing of easing and overshoots and so forth), and *then* the in-betweens, where you can turn your brain off and animate straight-ahead. Hope this explanation helps you to make the process (somewhat) easier! And yes, the feeling when something starts to move and it moves *right* is true for us as well! (And don't worry. I too fear colourists. And animation concept designers. And 3d animators and modellers. And I fear you for doing this in Adobe Animate - but as someone who works with Toon Boom for uni, it's understandable. Actually, I fear and respect you more because you dare to fight after effects and premier pro. I do not tussle with them out of sheer pain I had from learning them in lockdown and suffering.)

It’s nice to see another guide on animation! Of course everyone has their own style and different ways to work, but nice to see people go over the process

Love your energy and animation style!

It was very interesting! 💖💯 Listening you explaining it with so much illusion or motivation (? I don't know which word I'm thinking of 😭) was great!!!

You give me so much inspiration!!

that’s some awesome merch! also great video shar :))

9:27 ikr! There's this feeling that you're being pulled into a different dimension of emotions when i hear certain music (most of them are anime ost) and they inspire me so much in coming up with a plot for a story

"I never animated profissionaly" I cant even drawn a square, you can drawn amazing animations alone, and they are beatiful

I'm inloved with ur artstyle It's just- too cute

Your art and animations are such a huge inspo for me! Thanks for this video. Sorry for the loss of your 2 kitties

this video is so cute, keep it up! good luck to whatever you do in the future!

The world is full of wonderfull people, and shar is no different

This girl got half a million subscribers from less than 10 minutes of adorable Zelda AU animations. And I can't get enough of it! Moar Zelink plz :3

The wholesome, raw honesty. My heart, my feels! HERRRRK! 🤩😍😵

This was a fantastic video! I love the sound of paper shuffling during transitions and the little doodles and notes. Looking forward to more of your work and potential singing :)

This is awesome!! :D I L O V E your animations. ^^ 💕

She deserves sooo much 💖💖 I'll be here when she reaches 1 milliom

Watched all your vids and plan to watch for more! Love your stuff, good luck on your studies!

Wow, this was amazing! You made it more simple! And you had key points that were just as helpful! I really appreciate this! And I like how you said to start out small too and work your way up!

I literally made a RU-vid account just so I could follow and support you I love your art style,music, animations, and your general romanticism so muchhhh TvT I hope you have a great 2022, Shar! ❤️❤️❤️