There is a tendency for animation students to forget the importance of film theory. Animation is of course about movement, so we often look to animations created in the past as our principal way of learning. But the ideas about animation that occupy themselves less with core physical mechanics and the nuances of motion, such [...]

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Robert Powers provides a series of video tutorials on the Slippery Rock NYC website. He focuses on character animation using Flash, After Effects, and Photoshop. I appreciate Robert’s tutorials very much because they go into a lot of detail about techniques and concepts that will come up time and time again. This is in contrast [...]

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That’s a good question and one I’ve been asking myself lately. I used to tweak most of my animation in the graph editor, which is the way I learned it at school. Keeping the curves clean and organized was the way to go, and a workflow I’m still following. All of your animation is represented [...]

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This week The Gnomon Workshop releases a long awaited series of three DVDs by Dreamworks Character Animator Chris Kirshbaum. These lectures on character animation for feature animation range in topic from the fundamentals and mechanics to lip sync. All taught in Maya, Chris delivers thorough breakdowns of the steps needed to animate your character. Chris [...]

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