Hand Drawn Animation Notes

Saw this on CartoonBrew today: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/music-vid...wegian-tv.html And also on the TVP Animation Community Forum , whe...

Students, you must watch this inspirational talk by Dreamworks director/producer/storyboard artist Steve Hickner , on how to break into ani...

Always interesting to see the process.  These behind-the-scenes movies  from the Disney Studio in the late 1930's /early 1940's show...

Students check this out: Dailymation Animator Yoni Goodman writes: "I decided to do a daily rough exercise in traditional animati...

Good article: IMPERFECTION IN ANIMATION by Tom Gasek - http://www.stopmotionworks.com/articles/imperftanim.htm Written with reference...

Here are some videos to inspire you as we go into the weekend and next week's Spring Break .    I came across these inspirational videos...

 During the making-of Walt Disney's  "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" several sequences were started and then abandoned due t...

In this excerpt from the BBC series "The Secret of Drawing" (2006) director Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville  and   L...

Students:   if you're not familiar with the work of Uli Meyer and his London animation studio  "Uli Meyer Animation"   you sh...

  A recent film supervised by Alexander Petrov , "One More Time" . (all of these images are hand-painted with oil paint on gl...

For my Academy of Art animation students I've been remiss in not officially noting that my friend and colleague Diana Coco-Russell has j...

Animator Frans Vischer has written and illustrated a new book, "Fuddles" .     He animated this charming trailer to promote the...

I'm grateful to  C. Siemens on the Don Bluth Animation Forum for directing my attention to this remarkable collection of pencil tests b...

Last year I made several posts about Sylvain Chomet's new animated feature , The Illlusionist   ( "L'Illusionniste" ...

These have been shared on a lot of blogs ,  but for completeness sake in this series I'm re-posting them here. A great lecture (in th...

Master animator Eric Goldberg demonstrates how to animate. A couple of Eric Goldberg animated commercials : Here's...

Master Animators at work. It's always interesting and educational to see how an animator approaches animating their scenes. First up...

Comics artist Tracy J. Butler  ("Lackadaisy") has posted a great tutorial on Facial Expressions: NOTES ON EXPRESSIONS - Click H...