ANIMATION: MASTER DISCORD SERVER!

[LucasGabrielzip]

THATS RIGHT!

https://discord.gg/xF6zWpKyBs

 

have fun although its heavily unfinished

[Yopachi]

Thanks @LucasGabrielzip

Could be fun to have an alt to the forums. This place is a library of A:M knowledge and I would never want it to be lost. Joined the discord!

[robcat2075]

Do we need an alternate to the forum?

Is there something the forum is not doing?

[Rodney]

@LucasGabrielzip I joined your discord.

My take would be to use discord to collect your project and produce daily work toward the completion of your projects; posting the highlights back to this forum when you hit specific milestones.  Use the space to move your project forward and... by all means provide a space for those who prefer discord to hang out and explore.

Discord is a great place to chat and get realtime feedback.

 

I suggest 'personal project' approach because several years back I created an Animation:Master discord and while it got a few visits initially the main thing it accomplished was just lessening my posts here in this forum. (which could be a good thing depending on your perspective!).  That A:M discord is still sitting there silently and is available if I ever need to use it but doesn't serve much of a purpose beyond holding links to some old resources.  It's not my personal/private discord as I have one of those that also is rarely used   One never knows when they might want to chat with themself.  ;).

 

Don't read me wrong, I'm a fan of discord and spend an inordinate amount of time there in support of the Opentoonz community.

I keep track of some 20+ different discords as well.

Opentoonz and most of those others however don't have a dedicated forum like A:M Forums does which makes the need for a discord for them considerably more important.

 

 

[Yopachi]

There is a trend of youtube traffic going strait to discord as a sort of after party. lots of gen z and alpha are already used to this pattern and might not ever step foot into a forum otherwise. could be a way of netting more animation master traffic for younger audience. and I'm gonna push the traffic this way if i can. but my suspicion is that the kids wont come over here unless they are serious about learning. so there are two functions and they can feed into each other. 

rodney is right about the real time nature there is already some quick back and forth and learning going on

[Roger]

Seconding Yopachi:  Discord is popular with the younger crowd, supports real-time chat and conferencing (without fees), and might be a good as an addition to the forum as an informal hangout.  

[Madfox]

It starts rather slow, with questions for old plugins,
but likely a good place to show easy examples.