JayPlays

Hey!  I use Photoshop with a Wacom Cintiq.  Unfortunately those aren’t the easiest to get ahold of if you’re just starting out, but Wacom does make cheaper tablets, and I’ve heard good things about some of the other tablet companies out there too.  As for animation, I’m less versed in good programs for that, but I do believe there are more cheaper/free alternatives coming out.  GIMP does animation, or did at one point, and though I’m less fond of their interface, if you’re just starting out it’s not so bad for practice.  I’m sure there are other programs too but unfortunately I don’t know much about those.

Honestly, most ideas draw inspiration from somewhere, even subconsciously.  As long as you’re not using copyrighted characters/places/names/etc. or completely copying the world, you’re probably alright as long as it’s just inspired by the game and not directly based in it.

Hope this helps, and best of luck!

YouTube has a wealth of tutorials that can really help you get started, but this is one of my favorites!

It covers the 12 principles of animation, which are super helpful to know!  But there are loads of other great tutorials out there too-- so much so that I do believe it’s fully possible to learn to animate well without going to a school for it.  I took one course at my community college which did help-- but the biggest benefit of taking courses is the ability to get feedback imo.  I’ve seen tutorials that covered a lot of what we learned there available for free, but with that you don’t necessarily get feedback from people who have experience in animation the way you would in an actual class.  But even if it’s outside of a class setting, if you find some people who know what they’re talking about with animation and are willing to help give you feedback, that can be invaluable.

So “over and out” became sort of my catchphrase by complete and total accident, and dates all the way back to my first episode ever on the JayPlays channel, back in 2016.  It exists because I reached the end of the episode, realized I had no idea how I planned to end it, panicked, and blurted out the first thing that came to mind-- which happened to be “and until next time, this is Jay-- over and out”.  I was terribly afraid everyone would think it was cringy, but for the sake of consistency I dared not stop using it, and a few months into the channel people started commenting on it and I realized people actually liked it, so I kind of just... kept it from then on out lol.

Hey!  My computer is a custom build, but the biggest thing you’ll want is a good graphics card.  WolfQuest did a video on graphics cards and showed a chart of ones that should be able to run the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQcbkopST48

Oh bruh, that was a while ago.  I think it sort of backfired because I didn’t get a lot of responses, so it just didn’t happen?  I believe I overestimated the response I actually got and then only had a handful of clips, unfortunately.