Hand Drawn Animation Notes

With a deep bow of acknowledgment to Jamaal Bradley's wonderful Pencil Test Depot , I have started a sub-section of Academy of Art Anim...

At the recent CTN Expo in Burbank (great event , by the way) I was pleased to finally meet animator/author/teacher  Tony White face to ...

I haven't really been keeping up with posting a lot of links this semester. Lots of good stuff out there on the web, but I've been...

Rare behind-the-scenes look at raw pencil tests and camera layout tests. Pencil tests of Zig-Zag (and early version of Zig-Zag pencil...

Part 1 of 8 . See it while you can.

Another of our AAU Online instructors, the fabulous Jennifer Gwynne Oliver , has started up a blog for her Character Design & Drawing ...

The Monkey and the Elephant by Boris Maras , Sheridan College 2010. He animated this in 2 months. From Boris Maras's blog : "Keep...

(cross-posting this from my other blog "Animation Grad Films" which showcases animated shorts made by students at various art sch...

http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/ Another great crop of student films from the Gobelins School in Paris , made for the 2010 Annecy ...

YouTube has a number of animated commercials by Richard Williams, Oscar Grillo, Richard Purdum, Eric Goldberg, and other luminaries of the ...

Laugh Lines is a film portrait of animator Kaj Pindal . He is seen at work creating zany cartoon characters, teaching students of animation,...

Via CartoonBrew . Minneapolis-based studio MAKE created this animated signal film for the forthcoming Palm Springs International ShortFest ...

Sylvain Chomet, director of Belleville Rendez-Vous and now The Illusionist. Photograph: Paul Cooper Sylvain Chomet talks about his new film...

The brilliant animator Sandro Cleuzo has a great animation blog which you should definitely bookmark and check frequently. Sandro is generou...

The ever-resourceful Sherm Cohen is posting a series on Storyboarding: Check out Sherm's other videos: Storyboarding Commentary Series S...

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: