Hand Drawn Animation Notes

If you've ever priced a large format (11" x 17" tabloid size) scanner you know that they are generally very expensive (startin...

INBETWEENING is an essential skill .  Good inbetweens make the animation flow smoothly , but bad inbetweens can kill a scene. Here is a p...

Animator/director Justin Murphy is in the process of developing an independently produced animated feature film called "Dawgtown" ...

Michel Gagne is making an animated film based on his graphic novel , “The Saga of Rex” .   He is funding the film through Kickstarter. ht...

“Paperman” director John Kahrs talks about the importance of DRAWING in the CG age. http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=N0CxXAsw0J8 ...

Here are links to collections of various hand-drawn animated films that I think will be of interest to readers of this blog: TVPaint Anim...

  UPDATE #2 , May 26, 2012  -   Well, the IndieGoGo site shows that  POE didn't quite reach the funding goal of $13,000, but it got c...

 UPDATE:  FUNDED !    They raised the $35,000 and then some.     Yet another project worth supporting has come to my atte...

Sorry to hear that Michael Sporn's  Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his animated feature-film  "POE"  didn't reac...

I saw this posted on the TVPaint Animation Forum. Nice, humorous (slightly exaggerated) explanation of the production process.  Made as a...

This is a must-have book for anyone interested in hand-drawn animation. Let me rephrase that : this is a must-have book for anyone intere...

As seen on the TVPaint Community User Forum : This relatively new image capture station , the S implicity Cam 5e HD Document Scanner by ...

To mark the special occasion of the re-release of "The Lion King" to theaters (in "3D" ) master animator Andreas Deja ha...

Found via CartoonBrew (thanks Amid). Beautiful film by Nelson Boles.  It’s become a cliche reaction now, but I still feel compelled t...

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...