Classes Begin February 25

Welcome to Traditional Animation Basics Class (1 & 2) at the American Animation Institute, 1105 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505. 

The spring session of Traditional Animation Basics begins on Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 10 am until noon. This will be a 12 week class in traditional hand drawn animation, and this class will combine the students of both Traditional Animation Basics 1 (beginning) & 2 (intermediate). See ya'!!

Lightning Strike by Ron Gilmore

My Lightning Strike Test made in Adobe Flash

Ghibli Test

This is footage from a documentary about the creation of Studio Ghibli's film, Princess Mononoke. During the process, a few inbetweeners took a test to be promoted to key frame animators. The scene they had to do was very difficult and the results were interesting.


To add to that, here's a video of Miyazaki himself animating a scene where the main character takes a tumble. The comments he makes are so interesting and he tries so many different approaches for a scene that's only about 1.5 seconds long.

Nicholas Was...

Finally got one storyboard finished! I started this a year ago when Neil Gaiman released the audio as a free download and suggested that anyone who wants to use it for something creative to go ahead and do so. It was a good way to practice storyboarding and doing some basic traditional animation in Flash. Any thoughts or comments are well appreciated! :D

Digital Portrait

I have been trying to figure out digital painting and I am finally feeling more confident. Perhaps now better color temperatures.... Any tips?

Miyazaki Running Scenes

Thought this would be fun to post up, someone edited together a lot of the running scenes that were in Hayao Miyazaki's films and tv series. I really love these, the runs are so unique to every character and situation.

Sketchtravel Project

Sharing the Sketchtravel project links for those who haven't seen it before. :)

http://www.sketchtravel.com/video.html

http://www.awn.com/blogs/10till6/dice-tsutsumi-s-sketchtravel-art-project-auctioning-masterpiece-art-history

Very inspiring!