Hand Drawn Animation Notes

This looks interesting.   From France comes this new animated feature film "Une Vie de Chat"   (currently in release in French ci...

This Christmas greeting for CBS Television (from 1966) was designed by R.O. Blechman , animated by Willis Pyle. (I have always loved the ...

Headless Productions is a small independent animation studio founded by Adrian Garcia, Alfredo Torres and Victor Maldonado,  based in Bar...

Recently when I attended the CTN Expo in Burbank I was really happy to run into my friend Mark Kausler who was selling original hand-inked c...

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...