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Toon Boom Launches Remote Animation Training Course

Montreal-based Toon Boom Animation, creators of widely used 2d animation and storyboarding software, has announced a new set of training courses focus...

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How to Adapt a Picture Book to Animation: 5 Lessons from Gene Ditch

In 1959, Gene Deitch arrived in Communist Czechoslovakia for what was meant to be a ten-day work trip. He never left. Thus began the longest phase in ...

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Netflix and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg have launched a free online course for aspiring animators and filmmakers

With animation tuition and recruitment disrupted by the ongoing coronavirus crisis, a number of enterprising schools and companies are launching onlin...

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"Soul" and "connected" trailers: Analysis of the animation style of each movie

Jean-Denis Haas calls his animation analysis “nerding out.” He's being modest. Haas, a senior lead animator at Industrial Light & Magic and instru...

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Pixar cinematographers break down their creative process for "on-word" (video essay)

On Cartoon Brew, we regularly spotlight video essays that explore the subtleties of animation's visual language. Most are made by sharp-eyed fans or o...

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Phil Lamar of Samurai Jack offers a master class on improvisational voice actors

How many actors can convincingly play a school nerd, a distinguished old owl, a stoned alien, and nine other roles - all in the space of a few minutes...