Hand Drawn Animation Notes

Animation by Bill Tytla of the character Stromboli from "Pinocchio". I found good quality scans of this scene on Michael Sporn...

Mr. Snoops from "The Rescuers" , animated by Milt Kahl. I've seen a version of this recently that had some of the drawings mi...

Rough animation of the character "Koda's Mom" from BROTHER BEAR , animated by Rune Bennicke . (looped three times for your vie...

I've had photocopies of this scene from The Fox & The Hound for years. I've finally decided to scan them and make a proper penci...

Getting closer (December '09) -

(click image to see it larger) In April the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hosted a tribute to master animation Milt Kahl , ...

from The Illusionist directed by Sylvain Chomet Excellent article from the folks at Animation Mentor that should be read by all students of...

Animation by Frank Thomas. This post has been updated. The original version of this pencil test that I uploaded had some of the drawings mi...

Animation drawing by Abe Levitow : Mark Mayerson has posted a set of Notes on Animating by the master Warner Bros. animator Abe Levitow . C...

Seems like everywhere I look these days people are posting tutorials and training videos for classical hand-drawn animation . The latest tut...

First "official" trailer for Disney's new hand-drawn animated feature "The Princess & The Frog" --- High Quali...

James Baxter demonstrates how to construct a character for animation: If you've not seen the sequence that James supervised for Kung Fu ...

In the sidebar notice there is now a link to a new sub-section of this blog:   Hand-Drawn Animation Equipment   which has sources and sugge...

Posted below is a new "Ponyo On A Cliff by the Sea" trailer, from the French-language release. This is all hand-drawn, from dir...

I like to use this blog to post links to inspirational material or practical resources wherever they may be found. You can never read enoug...

I have posted this pencil test on my blog previously , but thought that I'd repost it to bring your attention to some of the drawings f...

I could watch these pencil tests for hours .  (I wish Disney would release special pencil test editions on the "extras" sections o...

Looking through some notes today I found a link to a couple of old posts on other people's blogs that are worth reading for any of you a...