"Jumping Through Hoops: The Animation Job Coach" by Tony White

At the recent CTN Expo in Burbank (great event , by the way) I was pleased to finally meet animator/author/teacher  Tony White face ...

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Inspiration: Toby Shelton's blog

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...

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Announcing: "Walk Cycle Depot" blog

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...

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Animation of Christmases Past

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

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Headless Productions

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

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Mark Kausler's "It's The Cat" and "There Must Be Some Other Cat"

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...

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Inexpensive Large Format (11" x 17") Scanners for scanning Animation Drawings

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

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Inbetweening for Traditional Hand Drawn Animation

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

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Justin Murphy to produce independent animated feature film

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

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Michel Gagne's Secret Production Blog for "The Saga of Rex"

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

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"Drawing everywhere ..."

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

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Hand-drawn animation collections

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

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Poe Project on IndieGoGo - Michael Sporn Animation

  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 clo...

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Support Ken Duncan's "My Beastly ABCs" project on KickStarter

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

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A Hand-drawn project worth supporting - Mark Kausler's "There Must Be Some Other Cat"

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

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The Story of Animation - an educational film

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

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Setting the Scene : The Art and Evolution of Animation Layout

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 interest...

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A new Animation Pencil Test capture station: SIMPLICITY CAM 5e HD DOCUMENT SCANNER

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

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The Lion King roars again

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

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"The Little Boat" by Nelson Boles

Found via CartoonBrew (thanks Amid). Beautiful film by Nelson Boles.  It’s become a cliche reaction now, but I still feel compelled to say ...

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