Hand Drawn Animation Notes

When people make the claim: "There are no traditional animation jobs" or "2D is dead" you should realize that what ...

Here is another inspiring video from a presentation given at the CTN Animation Expo . If you haven't attended CTN Expo before it is hi...

Brand spanking new blog from the Traditional (2D) Animation Dept. at the Academy of Art University that you should check out : Animation S...

Another crop of amazingly proficient grad student films from Gobelins . Google for the blogs of the individual students who worked on thes...

Another hand-drawn feature length animated film from France ! LE CHAT DU RABBIN .  I'll say it again:  thank goodness the French did n...

There's a new animation blog I want to recommend to you by a great animator, John Celestri. John the Animator Guy John started ...

Cartoon Saloon studio in Ireland -- makers of The Secret of Kells -- is starting a new hand-drawn animated feature based on the book ...

Who's developing animation for the iPhone/iPad/Android market ? Fascinating to think about these marvelous new outlets animation. Arti...

Here is some very good news for students and fans of classical hand-drawn animation.   Esteemed Disney animator Andreas Deja has started a b...

"Rain Town" by Hiroyasu Inshida (if you click through to the YouTube page I suggest switching it to 720p HD mode for better imag...

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...