Hand Drawn Animation Notes

A visit to the studio of traditional animator Pat Smith ---

Here is another blog site which ought to be in your bookmarks: ANIMATION BACKGROUNDS - Discovering the Art Behind the Art This site by Rob...

Here is a link to an interesting interview with Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki on the upcoming animated feature film "Ponyo o...

Good example of how an animator approaches a scene in the first rough pass, then tie-down pass before turning the scene over to the Clean-Up...

An astoundingly beautiful piece by Oskar Fischinger which recently surfaced on YouTube. If you ever have a chance to see Fischinger's...

Animator Pat Smith has a great post on "The Firebird" segment from Disney's Fantasia 2000 which I recommend to you : Ted ...

A post I made on my personal blog a while back, but I'm reposting here for your viewing pleasure . This is really masterful work. -----...

Jerry Beck at CartoonBrew.com reminds me that I should post a link to Mike Nguyen's blog , Rainplace . If you don't know who Mike N...

A good example about how character animation is all about timing , not fancy graphics or camera moves. This gets a lot of mileage from pu...

If you haven't heard the interviews with master animator James Baxter on The Animation Podcast , then get yourself over there to the A...

Seemed appropriate for the day. An old favorite, Frank Thomas's great animation from Lady & The Tramp.

I consider Dan Haskett to be one of the finest animators/designers working in animation. One of the things that is a mark of a Haskett desi...

Great pencil test piece of animation done for Sesame Street by the master animator Dan Haskett. [hmmmmm... well, this one seems to be playin...

Steve Hulett has a good post up over on The Animation Guild Blog about knowing your rights in the workplace. This sort of thing is importan...

One of the things you'll hear me emphasize over and over (except in ILL2D 346 Animation Assisting !) is to loosen up and draw rough in y...

This newsreel footage of the Fleischer Studio c.1938 - '39 is relatively rare. It's appeared on a few internet sites before and is ...

One of the Academy Award nominees for Best Animated Feature Film is the independent , relatively low-budget 2D film "Persepolis". ...

Here is a good article on the Clean-Up process by ace Assistant Animator Richard Smitheman.   Check out Richard's blog "The Penci...