If you’re looking into producing animated content, there’s a wide array of software and techniques to explore. Two popular 2D animation programs – Moho and Adobe Animate CC, have a lot in common, but differ in some key ways. In this post we’ll look at the […]
We are releasing a massive update to our After Effects Animation course next Friday (Black Friday). Here are all the details. Why update? Even though our After Effects course was great, I felt like it could use a refresh, and in it try to focus […]
When I finished writing the yearly review for 2019, I said “Not sure if 2020 can top that, but here’s to an amazing new year!” It’s amusingly sad reading it now, knowing what a challenging year 2020 turned out being for everyone. It seems like […]
Beep & Tweet is an ambitious animated short produced by Iron Feather Studios, a team of third-year students at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada. Their film follows a robot who takes a small bird under its wing, but must come to terms with the meaning […]
Joshua Pinker is a 2D animation artist, originally from New Jersey. He graduated from Lesley University in 2014. Since then he has contributed as an animator on numerous projects with studios across Canada and the United States. In his spare time Joshua self-published and released […]
How much work and effort goes into an episode of an animated series? In a typical production, you can expect to find character and prop designers, background artists, build artists, layout artists, storyboard artists, revisionists, directors… and animators. But audiences may not realize that even […]
Spencer Wan is a deft hand at putting the action into the animated, with credits on Castlevania and now a breathtaking new trailer for Supergiant Games’ Hades under his belt. Fans of Hades, which could be described as a ‘roguelike hack-and-slash dungeon crawler,’ have been […]
Interested in designing and rigging a 2D character for a professional-grade animated production? A new tutorial series from Piotr Bartosik (known online as Juhas) has you covered. Providing an in-depth look at his own personal project made using Harmony Premium, these videos take users from initial […]
To celebrate the launch of Storyboard Pro 20, we commissioned an animatic from Exceptional Minds — a Los Angeles-based nonprofit academy and studio that provides customized instruction in visual effects and animation, as well as hands-on experience, for artists on the autism spectrum. Titled A […]
Since 1952, The Animation Guild (IATSE local 839) has represented animation artists, writers and technicians. The Guild functions as a traditional labor organization — it negotiates wage minimums and improved working conditions such as employer-paid pension and health benefits, and acts as an advocate for […]