Hand Drawn Animation Notes

NEW: Official website is up: http://www.lillusionniste-lefilm.com Official trailer and several additional clips, image captures from the mov...

Today (March 13, 2010) would have been Joe Ranft's 50th birthday. This tribute film was made by Joe's friend John Musker for t...

Pete Docter gives advice on succeeding in Animation:

This is a great blog which ought to be on every animation student's blog roll - Rad's How To Rad Sechrist is a storyboard artist , c...

(watch it full screen) Even better , go watch the high-quality Quicktime version of the trailer here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/w...

Sylvain Chomet's new hand-drawn animated feature film premiered recently at the Berlinale Film Festival . Here are a few of the early r...

The Secret of Kells official U.S. release trailer. This film has been released in Ireland and in Europe, and has played a limited Oscar-qua...

Animation by Rune Bennicke . Click through the link to Rune's Vimeo page to see more of his pencil tests - Brother Bear Koda's Mom R...

Behind the scenes interviews with some of the artists who made "The Princess & the Frog" . Here are two parts of the "fro...

Animation Students: If you don't know about Mike Nguyen's animation blog RAINPLACE , then get it on your bookmarks list and vis...

(via Jerry Beck on CartoonBrew.com ) -- "The master of Chinese animation, Te Wei (Sheng Tewei), has passed away at age 95. Te Wei, a p...

(found via Alan Cook's page ) -- Saul Bass: "I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares" This excerpt from a docume...

Good clip via the Speaking of Animation site : http://www.speakingofanimation.com/2010/01/gesture-vs-lip-sync/ "Here’s evidence that p...

Via the excellent National Film Board of Canada web site. A master class in animation led by Cordell Barker in which he talks about the maki...

(story via CartoonBrew ) Character Concept art © Erin Humston . Animation students pay attention: Here's an inspiring example of an ind...

(lead animator Bruce Smith, animating on The Princess & the Frog) It's been 6 years since Disney has released a hand-drawn animated ...

Another great entry from B.J. Crawford into the 11 Second Club competition (November 2009) --

AAU animation students, attend the annual AAU School of Animation Fall Animation Festival , held this year on December 4, 2009. The specia...