Hand Drawn Animation Notes

 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...

Dan Haskett Steve Hulett, who is the Business Agent of The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839), is conducting a series of interviews which m...

This animation is by a high-school student,  Kyler Spears.  He's applied to Cal-Arts and I would expect he'll get accepted there. V...

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...