Robert Ryan Cory, a veteran character designer on “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Secret Mountain Fort Awesome,” has posted a helpful set of notes from a character design lecture he presented recently to CalArts animation students.
Second-year CalArts student Citlalli Anderson draws funny cartoons and shares her school work, doodles, and notes.
Frank Terry, the beloved former director of the character animation program at CalArts, passed away on February 11 at the age of 75.
“Vanity Fair” doesn’t write about animation often, but when they do, it’s memorable. Their new Hollywood issue has an excellent long read by Sam Kashner about the legendary CalArts animation program of the Seventies and Eighties.
Jacob Sluka is an artist studying animation at CalArts.
April Liu is a second year animation student at CalArts. Her blog is a mixture of personal and school work with drawings and animated studies from projects in progress, such as a short about a fellow with a sprout growing from the top of his head.
Jeff Liu studied at CalArts and now works at Cartoon Network on “Steven Universe.”
Chocolate Bacon is a portrait of a young woman’s experiences in the first year of grad school, presented through a series of …
Hand-drawn animation and dance performance intersect and interact in a piece that asks, Who am I?
Philip Vose is a graduate of the CalArts animation program and lives in the Bay Area working as a freelance animation …
Sophie Diao studied animation at CalArts and now works as a “doodler” at Google after interning there during the summer of 2012. Her work …
Hannah Ayoubi is a recent graduate of the animation program at Cal Arts. She keeps student films produced during her studies …
Eliza Ivanova found employment as an animator at Pixar after graduating from the animation program at CalArts. Her 2011 graduation film …
Madeline Sharafian recently completed her second year studying animation at CalArts where she made the film Omelette: In …
For the fourth year in a row, we are delighted to present the Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival, the premier online showcase for …
Eusong Lee is a graduate of CalArts. Last night, he picked up the silver medal at the Student Academy Awards for his short film …
CalArts student Tom Law has an idiosyncratic sense of design and movement, which comes through clearly in his graduation short This …
Colin Howard is working as a character designer on Steven Universe, the new show in production created by Rebecca Sugar. You can see …
Thumb Snatchers From the Moon Cocoon is an unabashedly wild, funny, action-packed gem of a cartoon. Self-conscious references to B-movie …
Taylor Price is a student at CalArts who hails from Vancouver. She posts her assignments and personal drawings on two …