The Power of the Animator

There is a strange dichotomy about ani­ma­tors. One per­cep­tion has the ani­ma­tor as a mind­less drone end­lessly engaged in repet­i­tive labor and mak­ing some­one else’s …

The Two Schools of Animation

I sup­pose there are two schools of thought when it comes to ani­ma­tors. I’m not refer­ring to Clas­sic 2D ani­ma­tion and 3D CGI ani­ma­tion, but …

Tips to Making Your Resume Stand Out

When you’re look­ing for work and apply­ing for jobs, it is a pos­si­bil­ity that you will not have direct con­tact with the inter­viewer. A lot …

Fantastic Anatomy and Muscle Reference Images (www.muscletitans.com)

http://www.muscletitans.com/post/2011/02/12/Training-for-Beginners.aspx
 
I stum­bled upon this body build­ing site a while back look­ing for anatomy ref­er­ences. If you’re look­ing to build up you’re knowl­edge of …

An Old Time Animator

I recently attended a “wrap party” for the crew of the TV series Curi­ous George. I was con­fused as to why I was even invited …

Sculpting The Face – Webinar w/ Ryan Kingslien (www.image-metrics.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiBYgBmhH0
 
Sculpt­ing the face can be a daunt­ing task to say the least, and learn­ing the anatomy of the face is a feat in …

Digital Sculpting – Form and Great Approach to Starting Out (www.zbrushworkshops.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjh5oiAbMiM
 
This is a good one; many of us when we’re start­ing a char­ac­ter from scratch, run into prob­lems very quickly with form, proportions, …

Dialogue Acting References (www.doublealee.com/blog)

http://vimeo.com/groups/actingref
 
A great col­lec­tion of var­i­ous pro­duc­tion level dia­logue ref­er­ences, good for cam­era setup and expres­sion study among other things.

“Image from www.doublealee.com”

Animation Base Job Board (www.animationbase.com)

http://www.animationbase.com/jobs/
 
“Ani­ma­tion­Base offers a pool of the best cre­ative jobs world­wide. The indus­tries we ser­vice are ani­ma­tion, gam­ing, com­mer­cials, film, and online. Whether you …

How to Optimize Your YouTube Channel

As an ani­ma­tor, it’s impor­tant that you have a place that show­cases the work you’ve done over your career.

4Personal Branding Tips for Animators

Whether you’re in school or free­lanc­ing on the side, it’s impor­tant that you dif­fer­en­ti­ate your­self from the pack. There are so many ani­ma­tion resources out …

Client Relation Tips for Animators

Whether you’re in school or out in the work force, it’s impor­tant that you are com­mu­ni­cat­ing and work­ing with clients in a way that is …

Pixar’s Writing Secrets Exposed

A while back I syn­di­cated an arti­cle about how I believe that most of Pixar’s movies use obso­les­cence as a main theme. I said I …

Using the Principles of Content Marketing for Animation

Ani­ma­tion is all about mak­ing a story or mes­sage come alive. This can be hard to do if you don’t have all the infor­ma­tion from …

Animation is Dead, Long Live Animation

I read a sta­tis­tic a few years ago that said that there were more ani­mated music videos pro­duced in 2009 than in the entire history …

The Birth of The Animated Music Video

This month is the 80th birth­day of ani­ma­tor Fred Wolf. Wolf cre­ated one of the world’s first ani­mated music videos, The Box.

The Box won …

The Road To Best Animated Feature…

A few weeks back I watched one of my for­mer ani­ma­tion stu­dents from Cal Arts accept the Oscar for Best Ani­mated Fea­ture for the Pixar …

3 Reasons Why Your Story Needs To Be Simple

Last night I rented Dreamwork’s Rise of the Guardians.  I was really excited to see it, because the look of the film is quite different.  …