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Aaron Blaise Reveals 7 Steps to Great Character Design

Hello everyone! My name is Aaron Blaise and I've been an animator, character designer, and animation feature film director for the past 30 years. I'm ...

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Tutorial: How to Animate a skip cycle

How do you make a character skip in animation-This short but info-packed 6-minute tutorial by Felix Sputnik (the pseudonym of German animator Michael ...

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Learn 3 Storytelling Tricks from John Lasseter

Animation director John Lasseter was born on this day, January 12, in 1957. Now 60 years old, he is as influential as he has ever been, not only steer...

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Learn Valuable Lessons from Hayao Miyazaki

Japan's most revered animation filmmaker of all time, Hayao Miyazaki, was born on this day, January 5, in 1941. And at age 76, he's showing no signs o...

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"Song of the Sea" production files available on a new site called Craft

Printed art-of books can be beautiful objects to own, but they are an inefficient format for collecting the massive amounts of artwork generated for m...

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Watch John Dilworth, the creator of "The Courage of a Cowardly Dog," animate his new film

Courage the Cowardly Dog creator John Dilworth is among the rare TV show creators who has produced a significant body of animation work outside of the...