Hello community!
I’m relatively new to Blender, been working with it for about a year or so on and off. I’m trying to figure out the best possible method to animate 2D characters to make cartoon shorts. I have a few base characters, one rigged with armatures and shape keys. Basically I want to be able to keep the characters in 2D format and give the characters full body motions etc.
I attached the screen shot of a character (It’s me!) that I created using multiple planes and tracing over a picture that I used in the background. Do I have to make a separate image for each motion (face changing angles, turning body etc) or is there an easier way to do this with Blender? Any help will be highly appreciated and any published work that I end up with will credit the ones who assist obviously. 
I tried to insert the blend file and it keeps failing so If you want to PM me I can email you the original file. Thanks in advance!
