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What Every Animation Student Should Know About Title Sequence Design

Art of the Title, an addicting resource with dozens of high-def clips, recently posted their Title Design Finalists for the SXSW 2013 …

Sometimes when I’m animating, I recharge my creative batteries by watching some of my favorite scenes or pieces of animation. There’s a …

In what may be a first for a major award-winning animated short, filmmaker David OReilly has released all of the character rigs from his …

I didn’t really know about animation smears until college. It was a time when my passion for animation had just kicked into high gear, …

Coming soon: the iPad app version of Richard Williams’ indispensable The Animator’s Survival Kit. The publisher, Faber and Faber, …

JibJab has completed the series of ABC videos that is part of their new children’s learning project StoryBots. The last video in the …

I pity the fool who doesn’t watch this primer about the “cartoon modern” era. The cheeky but informative piece was created for an …

I wish I could have seen stuff like this when I was in school. Check out this sample of Wild Brain’s new series of animated videos, aimed …

Here’s a rarity: an industrial film from 1943 with animation by Paramount’s Famous Studios. We’ve long known of several non-theatrical …

On Thursday, September 6, at 8pm (Central), former Disney animator Tom Bancroft will host a live online drawing workshop. He does these …

It seems the more CG becomes the prevalent form of contemporary animation, the greater the desire that young artists have to rediscover …

The Animation Project is a New York City-area program that uses computer animation as an art therapy tool for court-involved teenagers. …

The complete output of animation produced by UPA may never be definitively collected, as they produced a large quantity of material for …

TED, the nonprofit that presents “idea” conferences around the world, announced an intriguing new initiative yesterday: TED-Ed. Its goal, …

Here’s some fantastic weekend viewing: episodes of Bob Godfrey’s seminal British TV series Do-It-Yourself Film Animation Show. The …

2D special effects animators are a breed apart. Their work is extremely detail-oriented and demands an incredibly high level of …

What advice would you give to a budding artist who’s considering entering the lucrative and glamorous animation industry? It’s tough …

Pixar’s Cars is preceded in animation history by such shorts as Warner Bros. Streamline Greta Green (1937), Tex Avery’s One Cabs Family …