Clay Kaytis over at Animationpodcast.com has posted a new interview yesterday. Clay is a long time animator for Disney’s which gives him access to all the people who actually make what you see up on the screen. This one is about Dale Baer. Like Clay, I have never heard of him before, but he’s a [...]

I saw this over at Coldhardflash.com and wanted to share. I’m thinking there’s a bit more at work here than just Flash (especially in the compositing), but its a really nice piece o’ animation with some really nice design that reminds me of The Proud Family. I dig this lots! Share

Hey everyone. Just dropping in with an update on the new Man-Bot short. So far, the storyboard is complete as well as the animatic. For those who don’t know, an animatic is basically the storyboard timed out shot-by-shot how long I want the short to last for. It basically is providing the skeleton on which the entire [...]

Clean up in traditional animation is extremely important. Bad clean up can kill great animation. I can’t help but get psyched when I see awesome clean up, and I stumbled on a blog tonight from Richard Smitheman which features a ton of amazing drawings. Mr. Smitheman has an impressive resume the bulk of which appears [...]

  “So where’s the next short at?” one might ask. Its true. It has been some time since our last short. Life has a way of getting you sidetracked, however rest assured Phil and I have a few ideas in the works for future shorts staring Jacquo and the gang, a new “Zoinks”, and of [...]

A buddy of mine sent me a link to this yesterday. It was done in 2002 by Ignacio Ferraras. While I find it a bit cliched, the top notch animation and character acting in this short more than make up for it. Enjoy! Share

An article in “Variety” yesterday announced the teaming up of two special effects driven directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson for a (what else!) film trilogy adaption of Tintin, the venerable long-running comic book series. I guess that’s not the big news for me, but rather how they are choosing to go about doing it. [...]

I found a link to two clips from a new Aardman Animation Studio short called The Pearce Sisters and its a really amazing piece of work. Aardman is responsible for the awesome Wallace and Gromit series as well as Chicken Run, and Flushed Away in conjunction with Dreamworks. Directed by Luis Cook, this new short [...]