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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Abigail Lee posted on Twitter using the hashtag #Feboardary to announce a month-long challenge for storyboard artists. In that Tweet she shared five ways to participate in the challenge, complete with prompts for storyboards. Artists can also use the hashtag, which combines the words ‘storyboard’ […]
If you were to look at recent animation productions, you could make the argument that the industry is in a rotoscoping renaissance. The animation technique, which involves tracing over live action footage frame by frame, was first invented by Max Fleischer in 1915 and is […]
The Animation Showcase is the new streaming service made exclusively for the animation industry. This dedicated platform shows work from studios big and small, from industry giants to up-and-coming independents. Participating film-makers can expect an engaged audience of animators, artists and studios, as well as […]
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 […]
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 […]