Hand Drawn Animation Notes

My fellow teacher at The Academy of Art ,  Jean-Denis Haas, reminds me that he also has a blog for animation students at the Academy :  Spu...

Check out Michael Sporn's always interesting blog where he notes that several of his animated shorts are receiving new DVD releases.  Th...

First look at Disney's return to hand-drawn animation: Teaser Trailer for The Princess & The Frog (You'll have to click on the l...

Have you checked the   Academy of Art Online Course Catalog lately ? We have three new online traditional animation classes launching  for...

The always interesting blog of animator/director Michael Sporn is featuring some great screen grabs, storyboards, and rough animation drawi...

UPDATE: High-Res. HD Quicktime videos of the opening Dream sequence and the End Credit sequence of KFP have been posted here: The Art of t...

A marvelous film based on the drawings of the master Hokusai , written/directed by Tony White . Tony writes: "The film itself was inspi...

[click on image to see it larger] Michael Sporn has uploaded a series of rough drawings of King Louis by Milt "King" Kahl on his...

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...