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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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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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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Where are all the Traditional Hand Drawn Animated films ? (and why study traditional animation?)

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

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CTN Expo - Behind the Scenes with Independent Filmmaker Mike Nguyen

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

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THE RABBI'S CAT - LE CHAT DU RABBIN - animated feature film

Another hand-drawn feature length animated film from France ! LE CHAT DU RABBIN .  I'll say it again:  thank goodness the French did not...

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New animated feature film: "Moon Man"

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

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"IMPERFECTION" IN ANIMATION is a good thing

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

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Inspiration: Master Animators At Work - SYLVAIN CHOMET

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

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Tahsin Özgür - Pencil Tests

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

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"L'Illusionniste" an animated film by Sylvain Chomet

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

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NOCTURNA [English] Part 1 of 8

Part 1 of 8 . See it while you can.

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"The Monkey and the Elephant" by Boris Maras

The Monkey and the Elephant by Boris Maras , Sheridan College 2010. He animated this in 2 months. From Boris Maras's blog : "Keep...

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2010 Annecy shorts from the Gobelins School

http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/ Another great crop of student films from the Gobelins School in Paris , made for the 2010 Annecy ...

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British Animated Ads of the 80's

YouTube has a number of animated commercials by Richard Williams, Oscar Grillo, Richard Purdum, Eric Goldberg, and other luminaries of the ...

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Kaj Pindal : Laugh Lines

Laugh Lines is a film portrait of animator Kaj Pindal . He is seen at work creating zany cartoon characters, teaching students of animation,...

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Palm Springs International ShortFest signal film by MAKE

Via CartoonBrew . Minneapolis-based studio MAKE created this animated signal film for the forthcoming Palm Springs International ShortFest ...

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