Inspiration: Uli Meyer

Students:  if you're not familiar with the work of Uli Meyer and his London animation studio  "Uli Meyer Animation"  you should definitely get to know his work. In addition to his studio website , Uli has a couple of blogs where he posts his incredible pen & ink drawings :http://ulimeyeranimation.blogspot.com/http://umbackagain.blogspot.com/A few samples of  Uli's work below.  Click on through to

"One More Time" by Alexander Petrov

 A recent film supervised by Alexander Petrov , "One More Time" . (all of these images are hand-painted with oil paint on glass, one frame at a time.) Roughly translated (by Google) from a Russian language page I found with information about the film: "The film "One more time!" - is a moving memory of the finest part of every person - a carefree childhood. The action takes place in

Fuddles by Frans Vischer

Animator Frans Vischer has written and illustrated a new book, "Fuddles" .     He animated this charming trailer to promote the book. And check out Frans' other book "Jimmy Dabble" - http://www.jimmydabble.net/animation.html

Tahsin Özgür - Pencil Tests

I'm grateful to  C. Siemens on the Don Bluth Animation Forum for directing my attention to this remarkable collection of pencil tests by animator Tahsin Özgür.Here's a sampling:"For a while my wife, Lale, had a company through which I did some of the best of my animation work. This "animated logo" was meant for that company, but by the time I was finished with the cleanup, she had already closed

"L'Illusionniste" an animated film by Sylvain Chomet

Last year I made several posts about Sylvain Chomet's new animated feature , The Illlusionist  ("L'Illusionniste") .    Time to mention it again.  Now that the film has received an Academy Award nomination as "Best Animated Feature Film"  and is in a somewhat wider release pattern I wanted to post the release schedule from Sony Classics.   Here is where the film is currently playing or will be

Inspiration: Master Animators at Work - GLEN KEANE

These have been shared on a lot of blogs ,  but for completeness sake in this series I'm re-posting them here.A great lecture (in three parts) by Glen Keane on his approach to animating a scene.   You can learn so much by just "looking over the shoulder" of these great animators as they animate.   

Inspiration: Master Animators at Work - ERIC GOLDBERG

Master animator Eric Goldberg demonstrates how to animate. A couple of Eric Goldberg animated commercials : Here's a link to a presentation that Eric gave at the Academy of Art University's annual Fall Animation Festival in 2008 - Industry On-Campus Videos - ERIC GOLDBERG*NOTE:  Sorry, I can't embed the video here.  You'll have to go to the AAU Videos web page and scroll down through the list of

Inspiration: Master Animators at Work - JOANNA QUINN

Master Animators at work. It's always interesting and educational to see how an animator approaches animating their scenes. First up, the amazing Joanna Quinn . More Joanna Quinn on YouTube :http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Joanna%20Quinn&search=tag

Animation Guild oral history interviews with Animators

Dan HaskettSteve Hulett, who is the Business Agent of The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839), is conducting a series of interviews which makes for some fascinating listening.  Download these interviews to your iPod and enjoy listening to this vibrant oral history project with some of the best animators in the biz: TAG Interviews -- CLICK HERE --Or here:  http://animationguild.org/interviews/So

Kyler Spears animation reel

This animation is by a high-school student,  Kyler Spears.  He's applied to Cal-Arts and I would expect he'll get accepted there. Very nice to see someone so young turning out such polished work.